okatty35
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I have lived in tornado alley my whole life and spring stroms are just a way of life. It becomes common place to be watching the sky in the mid to late afternoon especially when the heat builds quickly and there is moisture to feed the storms.
But then there are those days when there is a little more urgency to the storm watchers -- the alerts issued are more serious and everything is turned up a notch. That happened yesterday in Okla. where several large tornados were on the ground for many miles causing massive destruction and loss of life. Nothing like the Joplin storms last week but nevertheless terrible and tragic destruction.
This impacted me directly when the storms went just NW of my home, sparing us from any major damage, yet hitting a lake community about 3 miles away. I found myself last night walking the shoreline looking for a 3 year old child who went missing from a home that took a direct hit. The mother and a small baby are in critical condition. One end of the lake was totally covered by lumber from destroyed homes on the other side of the lake. It was a truly incredible scene. I saw a kitchen fork stuck in a tree. Saw mattresses in the tops of sheared off trees. Cars on top of slabs that were once houses. A twisted and mangled trampoline on top of a house that wasnt otherwise damaged -- who knows where the trampoline came from.
I left about 9 last night when it was simply too dark to do any effective searching. As of earler this morning the child had not been found. There is no real point to this post except to say my heart goes out to those people who have been so dramatically impacted by weather related disaster across the country (from floods, fires, tornados or whatever the case might be).
But then there are those days when there is a little more urgency to the storm watchers -- the alerts issued are more serious and everything is turned up a notch. That happened yesterday in Okla. where several large tornados were on the ground for many miles causing massive destruction and loss of life. Nothing like the Joplin storms last week but nevertheless terrible and tragic destruction.
This impacted me directly when the storms went just NW of my home, sparing us from any major damage, yet hitting a lake community about 3 miles away. I found myself last night walking the shoreline looking for a 3 year old child who went missing from a home that took a direct hit. The mother and a small baby are in critical condition. One end of the lake was totally covered by lumber from destroyed homes on the other side of the lake. It was a truly incredible scene. I saw a kitchen fork stuck in a tree. Saw mattresses in the tops of sheared off trees. Cars on top of slabs that were once houses. A twisted and mangled trampoline on top of a house that wasnt otherwise damaged -- who knows where the trampoline came from.
I left about 9 last night when it was simply too dark to do any effective searching. As of earler this morning the child had not been found. There is no real point to this post except to say my heart goes out to those people who have been so dramatically impacted by weather related disaster across the country (from floods, fires, tornados or whatever the case might be).
