Tornado devastates Moore, OK.
 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...205548879.html

Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks as they try to pick up the pieces and move on.

My in-laws live there (they're OK, but without water) and this is my wife's home town, so this hits pretty close to home.

Terrible news

Yes, I saw coverage of this yesterday. So horrible to hear about the devastation. My thoughts go out to all the victims. One video I saw was about an elderly lady who thought she'd lost her dog, but she found the dog in the rubble shortly during her interview. It was so heartwarming to see. Things like that really perk you up and make you realize that not all hope is lost.

Living in Oklahoma myself, severe weather is more common here (our pro basketball is named the Thunder). Yet, the past two days have been horrible. The skies got really green and brown when this tornado was coming through. None of my property was destroyed but there is debris everywhere. Debris has been found 70+ miles away from where the tornado hit. There were many people walking around bleeding and dazed. It looked like a warzone. Whatever was in the path of that EF5 tornado was wiped clean. Slabs of concrete were visible where houses once stood.

Please pray for those people affected. It was a VERY scary event and you couldn't help but feel helpless watching that tornado cross over a busy highway were people were trying to flee Moore, OK.

Good thing is it happened when most were at work. Had this happened later in the evening, there would have been 100+ victims.

Keep the cities of Shawnee, Moore, OKC, Carney, and others in your heart and prayers.

Pretty sad, I'm praying for them.

Definitely keeping them in my thoughts. Found out that six people who were missing are now accounted for and that five of them are alive.

It is very sad :( Weather can be crazy :(

My prayers are with them.

Those pictures take me back to 2011 here in Birmingham.

I hear tons of people on other message boards who don't know jack about tornados saying its stupid to live where these things occur. Truth is we who live in tornado country are well aware of the weather on days like that. We all know what to do. But with a monster like that one.....or the one that hit Joplin......and the one that took out Hackleburg and left my parents without power....or the one that swept through here. With those, all you got is prayer and hopefully somewhere underground to go.

I feel for them. I've been through tornados more than once. They will pick up put back together and move forward. That's just what you do.

Moore's a tornado magnet it seems. My wife constantly mentions the May 3rd 1999 tornado that took out half of her high school and leveled another elementary school. And this one is so much worse.

At least your family is ok, man. The devastation looks so intense from those pictures. It's hard to imagine living through something like that; a mile wide tornado is straight out of a sci-fi movie.

Usually God sends these to kill Helen Hunt before she can make ****** movies like Contact or Contact 2: Still No Aliens

People just don't understand that tornadoes can happen anywhere. We live in Tornado Alley here in Indiana, and I remember one tornado we had my senior year of high school. Man, was that scary. Luckily, we were okay. I feel for these people and what they have to go through. It's not easy, and people really need to stop acting like people are stupid for living in a place where tornadoes happen. It's not their fault because they can happen anywhere in the U.S.

Heck, we had a really bad tornado here in MA last year...it can happen anywhere. It's like saying ppl shouldn't live in New England b/c of blizzards, or CA b/c of earthquakes, or the south b/c of hurricanes, or Hawaii b/c of volcanos. Nature is nature and it happens everywhere, ALL over the world...so let's all move to Mars.

One of the victims works within my government agency and its sad that even hiding inside a bathroom doesn't keep you safe. An underground shelter is always the place to go, and unfortunately the soils of the Plains don't provide many basements. RIP to her and all the victims.

Wow. Sorry to hear that, Pan. Usually, hiding in a bathroom does keep you safe, but this was an EF5 tornado, so no one had a chance unless they were underground.

My Mom's part of a sewing guild, and we work together to find ways to help people out in these disaster situations, i.e donating/making clothes. She comes up with the patterns and I buy the materials - we did it for Joplin and Sandy, and have been looking around for Moore, OK.

Just today, we found a project called Sewing to Rebuild, where you can either donate gently used items or you can send in home-made clothing (all weather/all sizes). So we're already making plans to send a stack of clothes down for some needy kids (and adults). :)


I'll never forget the tornado that went through one of the local towns a few years back - totally flattened a bunch of woods and houses right by the water. I'd never seen the sky that yellow before...

That's very nice of you to do that, Machi. Good for you.

There's going to be a benefit concert on NBC to help with tornado relief hosted by Blake Shelton.