Devastating Tornado in Oklahoma

[breadnatty08]

Just heartbreaking watching the news this morning with Matt Lauer walking through the devastation.
Even worse, they went through something this huge 14 years ago. Thankfully, it looks like they were better prepared this time around.
There's plenty of places to help the survivors, and texting "Red Cross" to 90999 for a $10 donation is one of the easiest.
Dozens killed when huge tornado levels Oklahoma City suburb - The Washington Post
I've never lived through a tornado but did see the effects of a "micro-burst" storm while living in Kansas and can only imagine how terrible this is for the folks in OK.

 

[MoodyBlues]

I feel for them. I was living in Dallas, AKA Tornado Alley, in 1999 when the same area of Oklahoma was hit with that devastating storm. I lived through way too many tornado warnings--with black skies, horizontal rain, tornado sirens blasting--while in the Dallas area. The closest a tornado actually touched down was just a year or two before I left, and it leveled some houses a mile from my house. I'm so glad to be home...in earthquake country!

 

[jhawkkw]

If there was ever evidence of a location being cursed, Moore OK is making quite the case. I feel for all those who live in Tornado and deal with the reality that doing so inherits such a large risk. It makes the harsh winters that I have seem simple by comparison.

 

[argedion]

My heart and prayers go to all those devastated by this disaster. I Lived through the one and only tornado I've ever had around me that I'm aware of and the mess it left was huge for such a small quick storm. I can imagine the mess left from a storm of that caliber.

 

[AntimonyER]

Yeah, some places seem to get the raw end of the deal. West Palm Beach Florida area got two hurricane landfalls in one year, and Lakeland FL had the eye of those two and a third go over it that year... (2004).

The amazing thing, those people will pick themselves up, dust themselves off, clean up, and rebuild, yet again. Their resolve is pretty amazing.

 

[mebrewsta]

Hopefully these people will rebuild with some storm shelters in mind.. personally if I were to move out there, I'd build my house like a bunker - a few solid feet of concrete half buried in the ground.