It's this time of year I'm glad...

[Chris Plumb]

... I don't live in the Mid-West.

 

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

 

Rather lively weather ATM....

 

C.

[Phone]

Chris,

 

And all this time I thought it was because it is hard to back cast.

 

Nothing seriously close to me (my neighborhood) but plenty of trips up and down the stairs to the basement.

 

Phone

[Ken L]

Looks like Oklahoma had taken a right pasting.

No word yet regarding loss of life but looking at the damage it seems inevitable.

You have to feel for the families caught up in something like that.

[Phone]

All,

 

Ken, you're right. Oklahoma City, OK, a city of +- a million, is getting hammered. Back to back to back. We almost always have toronados but usually these things don't target populated areas.

 

Guess that's what basements are for??

 

Phone

[Ken L]

Now categorised as an F4. The power is awesome.

 

NB: ~Video link is not graphic.

[big_cod]

Over 90 killed terrible a 2 mile wide tornado that's some power of nature I am sure the death toll will be much higher .

The weather here is cold but it does bring it home just how lucky we are here when you see the terrible deverstation a tornado can impose of that magnitude.

 

Paul

Edited May 21, 2013 by big_cod

[Andrew]

Watching it on Sky news, terrible event, absolute devastation, whole neighbourhoods flattened. Saw a dog pulled from the debris, alive and well.

[Steve Burke]

As with all natural disasters you just have to feel for the folks affected. I'm glad we don't have such violent tornadoes here in the UK.

[Dave H]

I have checked on my friends and they are fine. There response was 'Yes it was one of those larger one's'

[Phone]

All,

 

A tornado touched down today, [Thursday] nearby already hard-hit Oklahoma City and adjacent parts of Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri faced tornado warnings Thursday and Friday.

 

Phone

 

DAMN - this is getting old.