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[Quikies83]

So a debris pile is on top of what the reporter was told "75 kids in the hallway when the school collapsed"...
Horrific.

 

[vilmer_]

Oh no...

 

[Isobelise]

Gondo, hope you are somewhere safe right now. Possible tornado near you.

Good too see you still on Tiger, we were worried a bit about you

 

[Mortalias]

They're saying 75 now.

75 total were in the building, but 15 are not accounted for.

 

[Horse Detective]

These things are destructive and terrifying, but I still find them beautiful.

 

[Meadows]

75 kids in the school...

 

[FelixOrion]

I spent summers in OK as a kid. Those weather guys would go on and on every damn time a storm was coming. They would hype crap up to get ratings, to the point that people just ignored them. We wouldn't go into the cellar unless the town's sirens went off. I wonder if a place as big as Moore even has those

Moore? It's 55K people. There are towns where my family are in western Nebraska that are only 300 some people and have sirens. Moore has sirens, I wouldn't even doubt that.

 

[UberTag]

Just tuned in. Can someone brief me on whats all happened, the damage, etc?

Here you go...

"Biggest destructive tornado in the history of the world"

This sounds a bit like hyperbole, at least this early. I mean, it could be, but let the NWS do a survey first.

"This is the worst tornado in terms of damage in the history of the world." - It's bad but I'm amazed when people can say things like that with a straight face.

Lance "Danger" West breaking down in tears. 3rd graders getting pulled out of the wreckage at Plaza Towers elementary school that got levelled.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Oh god, this looks awful.

 

[maquiladora]

 

[Seanspeed]

Just tuned in. Can someone brief me on whats all happened, the damage, etc?

F4/F5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma. Destroyed 2 schools with kids in them and flattened nearly everything in its path. One of the worst tornados you could imagine.

 

[K.Sabot]

Outside of being underground, there isn't much of a safe place in a F4 or F5 tornado.

Newer houses are building concrete danger rooms for this stuff now, though I don't know how effective they are to this sort of destruction.

 

[UberTag]

Additional live stream: http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=207223

3-month old baby and a 4-year old confirmed dead.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Here you go...


Lance "Danger" West breaking down in tears. 3rd graders getting pulled out of the wreckage at Plaza Towers elementary school that got levelled.

Yeah, it's looking a lot like that might not have been hyperbole after all. Maybe.

Regardless, it's terrible. I really hope the casualties are low, but I'm afraid they won't be. =/

 

[squicken]

Moore? It's 55K people. There are towns where my family are in western Nebraska that are only 300 some people and have sirens. Moore has sirens, I wouldn't even doubt that.

Yeah my grandparents lived in small farm town. I honestly don't know if large cities on the plains have sirens

 

[K.Sabot]

That guy being interviewed looked like Wyatt Cenac.

 

[chaosblade]

This reporter is horrible.

 

[Elfforkusu]

.

 

[Kifimbo]

That guy being interviewed looked like Wyatt Cenac.

I understand where he's coming from, but he looks more worried about horses than people.

 

[cheststrongwell]

My friend and his family live at 164th and Western. I hope they are ok.

 

[Tamanon]

This reporter is horrible.

Yeah...

"My whole life is provided by my horses....there's one left"

"So look around and tell me what we see?"

 

[Goreomedy]

Why are they interviewing some work-release stable boy? Please don't think he represents all Oklahomans, GAF, World. Sigh...

 

[SuperAndroid17]

I understand where he's coming from, but he looks more worried about horses than people.

Well he explained why , the horses were his life.

This is terrible

 

[FelixOrion]

Yeah my grandparents lived in small farm town. I honestly don't know if large cities on the plains have sirens

Yeah they do. I grew up in Lincoln, NE; we have sirens. Moore almost undoubtedly has sirens.

 

[bengraven]

Jesus, the children.

 

[Demon Lizardman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jqhTzcOB-o

 

[K.Sabot]

Why are they interviewing some work-release stable boy? Please don't think he represents all Oklahomans, GAF, World. Sigh...

To be honest he represents like at least... 60% of Oklahomans lol

Outside of OKC and Tulsa you're mostly surrounded by agriculture / church types.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Yea I don't find Gary to be very good anymore. It goes to just raining and he goes nuts. 4 may have some hyperbole at times but they tend to usually be accurate for the most part. This just reminds me so much of May 3rd.

 

[Seanspeed]

Why are they interviewing some work-release stable boy? Please don't think he represents all Oklahomans, GAF, World. Sigh...

He was fine.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Outside of being underground, there isn't much of a safe place in a F4 or F5 tornado.

Honestly with the amount of advance warning (the storm prediction center had marked yesterday and today as potential big problems days in advance!) and track precision available nowadays, if you live in a place where tornadoes occur you should be able to easily book it to your vehicle when a warning / tornado emergency and drive on an orthogonal vector away from the storm to relative safety.

Though that doesn't work for, say, schools, of course.

People in the midwest/southeast valleys rely too much on sirens, and NOAA radio alert systems suck and are underused for largely good reason. We need better alerting systems to match our far superior advance warning and tracking technology. Sirens were OK back in the 80s when we had just shitty basic radar systems, but now that just seems too much of a cudgel given the precision of modern radar and forecasting tools.

edit: I also think that high EF tornadoes (judged by radar signature and spotter/police reports) should come with an advisement of evacuation out of the path if specifically if no underground shelter is available. That's already done for mobile homes in general in the warning bulletin.

 

[Schattenjäger]

Such a tragedy

 

[Meadows]

fuck, a policewoman asking for state level help on the TV

crazy

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Honestly with the amount of advance warning (the storm prediction center had marked yesterday and today as potential big problems days in advance!) and track precision available nowadays, if you live in a place where tornadoes occur you should be able to easily book it to your vehicle when a warning / tornado emergency and drive on an orthogonal vector away from the storm to relative safety.

Though that doesn't work for, say, schools, of course.

People in the midwest/southeast valleys rely too much on sirens, and NOAA radio alert systems suck and are underused for largely good reason. We need better alerting systems to match our far superior advance warning and tracking technology. Sirens were OK back in the 80s when we had just shitty basic radar systems, but now that just seems too much of a cudgel given the precision of modern radar and forecasting tools.

Yea. They gave a lot of warning considering how fast it formed. They were literally telling people to leave and drive east away from this. That's how bad it was and they knew it. It formed so fast it wasn't funny. I was watching as they saw this and within 5 to 10 minutes it was full blown. It was that quick.

 

[UberTag]

All of the students at Briarwood Elementary are accounted for.
Hopefully Plaza Towers fares similarly but given Lance West's reactions earlier it's hard to say for certain.

3 confirmed fatalities at the 7-Eleven near the demolished Moore Medical Center.

 

[cajunator]

Moore Medical Center destroyed

 

[Seanspeed]

fuck, a policewoman asking for state level help on the TV

crazy

Already declared a state of emergency in many counties yesterday.

 

[Goreomedy]

Moore Medical Center destroyed

Small hospital. They moved 30 patients.

 

[Wellscha]

Just heard the news on the radio. Thoughts an prayers to everyone affected.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

K through 3rd grade students unaccounted for still.

 

[Meadows]

Kindegarted, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade unnacounted for

 

[chaosblade]

Yea. They gave a lot of warning. They were literally telling people to leave and drive east away from this. That's how bad it was and they knew it. It formed so fast it wasn't funny. I was watching as they saw this and within 5 to 10 minutes it was full blown. It was that quick.

That's pretty crazy that they were actually telling people to drive away, so they already knew it was that bad at that point? Because I've never seen that before, the advice is usually take shelter (live in Alabama, so fairly regular tornadoes here too).

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Yup. It wasn't that bad yet. it hadn't even been a tornado yet. Mike Morgan cut in early because he could tell what was going to happen then as it started they were. They were like get the hell out of there. It's coming right for you. Drive east. That's something I had never heard them say before either. That's how bad it was.

 

[bengraven]

Looking shitty here in north Florida as well.

 

[AuthenticM]

Is the stream local only ? I can't access it. The page talks about captions (I'm in canada).

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Is the stream local only ? I can't access it. The page talks about captions (I'm in canada).

Nope worldwide. Try reloading. make sure you have flash.

 

[Meadows]

this probably needs its own thread

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Tornado in central Texas, as well (Brown County). Don't have any more info than that, though.

 

[vilmer_]

this probably needs its own thread

I agree. This is an absolutely horrible disaster.

 

[legacyzero]

Oh my god.

 

[Allforce]

Honestly with the amount of advance warning (the storm prediction center had marked yesterday and today as potential big problems days in advance!) and track precision available nowadays, if you live in a place where tornadoes occur you should be able to easily book it to your vehicle when a warning / tornado emergency and drive on an orthogonal vector away from the storm to relative safety.

Though that doesn't work for, say, schools, of course.

People in the midwest/southeast valleys rely too much on sirens, and NOAA radio alert systems suck and are underused for largely good reason. We need better alerting systems to match our far superior advance warning and tracking technology. Sirens were OK back in the 80s when we had just shitty basic radar systems, but now that just seems too much of a cudgel given the precision of modern radar and forecasting tools.

edit: I also think that high EF tornadoes (judged by radar signature and spotter/police reports) should come with an advisement of evacuation out of the path if specifically if no underground shelter is available. That's already done for mobile homes in general in the warning bulletin.

Why isn't something like an Amber Alert used for Tornado Warnings? I'm in Ohio and I agree, the sirens are completely ignored even when there IS a warning and if you're not watching the news you're effectively out of the loop.

Meanwhile if a child is abducted/goes missing you get a text on your phone within minutes with the car she was last seen in, the license plate, the description of the child, etc.