Two mile wide Tornado heading toward OKC...wait...how big?!?

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:09

Originally Posted by Plow

also just for those that don't know...

^ hit moore in 1999

I don't mean to make light of a situation ... but seriously ... I'd just say screw rebuilding that city and tell people never to live there again. I don't know how after today anyone would ever want to live there again.

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:12

oh, and about the ratings, they're almost entirely determined by level of destruction, f5 is extraordinarily rare, but this will probably be classified as an f4 with areas of f5

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:13

lol @ the guy walking away with nothing but his 3 guns

**Celeras** · 2013-05-20 18:13

When they say two miles wide I'm assuming they don't mean the funnel like my head is imagining? None of the shit ive seen looks anywhere near that big.

**Aksannyi** · 2013-05-20 18:14

Man, that's a crazy amount of destruction.

Those parents of the kids in the school must be losing their minds right now.

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:14

it was fucking huge, what I've heard from people that actually know tornadoes is 3/4-1m wide with heavy rotation spreading another mile

**nayaminfenrir** · 2013-05-20 18:15

Unreal...

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:19

Ya know, I just want to make an observation, considering the streak of bad shit lately ... but its oddly fascinating to see the difference in attitudes between people who survived a natural disaster vs a man made disaster. Whether it be an attack (Boston) or an accident that destroys a neighborhood (West,Texas) people are just shaken to their cores afterward .... but you see people who literally just got buried by a tornado and had to climb out of rubble only to find a wasteland in all directions and yet somehow the sheer joy of having survived somehow overpowers the devastation you'd expect to see on their faces. It's truly fascinating.

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:21

Originally Posted by Necronus

Ya know, I just want to make an observation, considering the streak of bad shit lately ... but its oddly fascinating to see the difference in attitudes between people who survived a natural disaster vs a man made disaster. Whether it be an attack (Boston) or an accident that destroys a neighborhood (West,Texas) people are just shaken to their cores afterward .... but you see people who literally just got buried by a tornado and had to climb out of rubble only to find a wasteland in all directions and yet somehow the sheer joy of having survived somehow overpowers the devastation you'd expect to see on their faces. It's truly fascinating.

reporter on weather channel just about broke down a minute ago when he saw a lady cheer in joy because she found some pictures in the giant pile of shit that used to be her house

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:22

and I feel really bad for him because he thinks they pulled everyone out of the elementary school but they haven't pulled anyone out cept maybe a couple really early on

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:26

Originally Posted by Plow

and I feel really bad for him because he thinks they pulled everyone out of the elementary school but they haven't pulled anyone out cept maybe a couple really early on

I'm watching the ABC Ch. 5 and the reporter there is helping to get a pile of elementary school kids that got directly hit reunited with their parents. Is it not the same school?

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:31

there's 2 schools that got hit, the one that looks really bad did have about 30 get out before news coverage got there, it may be them that were getting reunited

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:32

I finally found the names .... the school I was watching was Briarwood ... the one that everyone's talking about being rubble is Plaza Towers.

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:32

also looking at this shit more... it may end up being called an f5 for a large portion if not all of it...

shit with solid brick houses looks like what happens when a trailer park gets hit

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:35

Originally Posted by Plow

also looking at this shit more... it may end up being called an f5 for a large portion if not all of it...

shit with solid brick houses looks like what happens when a trailer park gets hit

Dude, one channel just showed a bank and I didn't even see the vault. Those things are such a pain in the ass to move I know one in a parking lot in MD they just converted into a bus stop.

**FNH** · 2013-05-20 18:36

Originally Posted by Celeras

When they say two miles wide I'm assuming they don't mean the funnel like my head is imagining? None of the shit ive seen looks anywhere near that big.

"debris ball" was 2miles+, funnel prob around 1m

**Abandon** · 2013-05-20 18:37

well shit, lemme check on teh folks back home. We live smack in between dallas and ft worth.

**FNH** · 2013-05-20 18:37

Originally Posted by Plow

also looking at this shit more... it may end up being called an f5 for a large portion if not all of it...

shit with solid brick houses looks like what happens when a trailer park gets hit

Brick housing is often a veneer, mostly wood framing with an exterior facing of brick.

**Plow** · 2013-05-20 18:38

warning in Joplin... southwest to northeast of course

**Necronus** · 2013-05-20 18:38

Current. All of the storm chasers stopped going to Ft Worth and turned west to Wichita Falls

http://belo.bimedia.net/WFAA/weather.../dma_still.gif

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