Severe Weather 2013 Spring, Summer and Fall

[Woe.be.gone]

I feel like I'm going to throw up. Poor little kids!

My heart is aching right now for the children and their families.

 

[gngr~snap]

Kids told to hold onto the walls!!!

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[MsFacetious]

Rescue crews were asking REPORTERS if they knew if there were kids still inside.

 

[gngr~snap]

School did have a basement area .

Pull back on first responders

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[Woe.be.gone]

Kids told to hold onto the walls!!!

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wth? Never heard of that before.

 

[MsFacetious]

1563 Vicki Drive at least 15 students from the school are there.
(4th - 6th grade if what we were told earlier is accurate.)


Live streams:

http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/

http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomane...at-5/-/9844008/10990302/-/g0okba/-/index.html

http://www.ktul.com/category/261938/live-video-severe-weather-coverage?app_data={%22pi%22%3A%22519a892c1dbff17e2500000a%22%2C%22pt%22%3A%22wall%22

 

[gngr~snap]

Plaza ...Towers

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[tlcya]

Awful

"Our worst fears are becoming realized this afternoon," Bill Bunting, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center, told CNN.

"We certainly hope everyone heeded the warnings, but it's a populated area and we just fear that not everyone may have gotten the word," he said.

The tornado was estimated to be at least two miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, KFOR reported.

More than 171,000 people could have been in the path of the storm.

http://www.localnews8.com/news/torn...-area/-/308662/20214732/-/nebi4p/-/index.html

 

[Woe.be.gone]

School did have a basement area .

Pull back on first responders

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So could there be children in the basement?
Maybe that's where the little ones are.

Why pull back on first responders?

 

[gngr~snap]

I am guessing the corners from the wind. A reporter spoke to a boy. The teacher on the 3kids not good kids ok.

They are hearing calls from people inside

I'm watching CNN

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[Show Me]

School did have a basement area .

Pull back on first responders

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Anyone use the basement for shelter? At my old job the basement was used for storage and we were assigned to the halls! I told them the basement and interior bathrooms were the best bet.

 

[MsFacetious]

They appear to be communicating with someone in the rubble at the school.
(Reporter Lance is taking hope from that, he needs it.)

People heard cries coming from a house nearby and there are people now rescuing those people.

 

[corundogs]

I don't understand how these schools don't have a storm shelter in them! I mean, it's not like we are talking about a place that has never been hit before, or isn't hit repeatedly! I mean, I guess it's about money.

But is that an acceptable answer? Makes NO SENSE!

Media keeps asking locals if there are basement areas, etc. I mean, is there not ANY school that is equipped for severe weather like this??? I get it's hard to build basements in the area. But I know for a fact that a friend who lives (well did about 8 years ago!) in Moore had a storm shelter in their backyard. Her husband built it after the 1999 tornado. If a private citizen can do it, why aren't schools required to have something?

 

[gngr~snap]

So could there be children in the basement?
Maybe that's where the little ones are.

Why pull back on first responders?

They said too many and can't organize them

The grass was blown away !

Basement in back of school. Plaza Towers


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[MsFacetious]

So could there be children in the basement?
Maybe that's where the little ones are.

Why pull back on first responders?

They don't want people just showing up, like they have previously asked.

 

[MsFacetious]

Father with little girl on here:

http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomane...at-5/-/9844008/10990302/-/g0okba/-/index.html

 

[Woe.be.gone]

I'm trying to understand why the 3rd graders were stuck in the school.
It's unclear what that means. Could they have moved children to the basement?

 

[MsFacetious]

Just a few names of students still there to be picked up.
It was two pages now it's just a few, Briarwood Elementary Students.

 

[gngr~snap]

Conflicting reports some say 3rd graders in the hallways but hallways are gone...

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[Reader]

Somebody asked how to help:

How to Help: Midwest storms

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/how-to-help--midwest-storms-182314098.html

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Videos: Massive tornado rips through Oklahoma

(about 30 min. ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/videos-massive-tornado-rips-oklahoma-215949606.html

This is absolutely horrible...I feel so sorry for that poor girl running all by herself through all that devastation..

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Massive tornado touches down near Oklahoma City

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tornado-oklahoma-city-moore-205548879.html

(live stream coverage)

There were no immediate reports of fatalities or injuries, as emergency officials urged people to remain off the roads so rescue workers and first responders could reach people potentially trapped in rubble.

"This is war zone terrible," Jon Welsh, a helicopter pilot for KFOR-TV who lives in Moore, said while surveying the damage from the air. "This school is completely gone."

Two elementary schools in Moore—Plaza Towers Elementary and Briarwood Elementary—were leveled by the tornado. It was unclear how many children were in the schools at the time the twister hit........

The 106-acre Orr Family Farm was completely destroyed, killing between 75 and 100 horses, KFOR said.

President Barack Obama directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare to get "all available assistance" to the disaster-hit area, the White House said.

Another tornado was reported on the ground west of Meeker, north of Shawnee, on Monday.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives canceled its afternoon sessions so lawmakers and staffers could take shelter, the Associated Press said............

Hope that all WS's and family in the areas hit are safe. Those poor children in the schools and their parents! Thanks for all the great updates on this tragic event.