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    Oklahoma City tornado-- no walls standing at elementary school

    Set your politics aside for a second.

    This is horrible.

    They are digging for survivors at an elementary school.

    Winds may have topped 200 mph.

    Horrifying.

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    Someone posted on my FB, via his father who is in OKC, that all the kids are accounted for.

    Not sure if that is true, but we sure can hope so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    Someone posted on my FB, via his father, that all the kids are accounted for.

    Not sure if that is true, but we sure can hope so.
    The name of the elementary school is Plaza Towers.

    The WTC is reporting that as many as 25 kids are buried underneath the rubble.

    It is no longer a rescue, it is a recovery.

    Weather Channel just had a reporter break down at the scene, sobbing.
    Last edited by SamDiamond; 05-20-13 at 07:31 PM.

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    I know someone in Okla city.just talked to them.....the devastation is horrific....said that 20-30 kids may have died in that school..just unbelievable..


    RIP

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
    The name of the elementary school is tower hills.

    The WTC is reporting that as many as 25 kids are buried underneath the rubble.

    It is no longer a rescue, it is a recovery.

    Weather Channel just had a reporter break down at the scene, sobbing.
    Jesus, that is horrible.

    I wish my initial post was true. Probably just people hoping.

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    I just can't get my head around it.

    They did everything they could have to protect those kids, they got them into a brick building, in the basement.

    Just horrifying. Those kids, those parents, those families.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    Someone posted on my FB, via his father who is in OKC, that all the kids are accounted for.

    Not sure if that is true, but we sure can hope so.
    The news is saying 7 dead children pulled from the rubble.

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    Wow... Fcking horrible...
    At least 37 dead in Oklahoma, that's what our german media says right now.

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    At least 51 dead

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    Any links to new reports? It's 3 in the night here, and our media is a bit behind now.

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    This is fukking horrible. My God.

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    Said the tornado was a mile wide.(or 1.6 Km for our German friends)
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    Yes this was a very sad and horrible NATURAL disaster..........

    But Sammy can quit acting as if he gives a fukk,for the fact that he has no human emotion whatsoever.........

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    Fukk.... That's crazy....

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    I lived just miles from the May 3, 1999 Moore tornado hit that and this one as well. Horrible.

    The 1999 tornado had wins in excess of 320 mph, the highest ever recorded on earth. The national media is saying this tornado is at least a EF4 but local meteorologist in Oklahoma are saying the tornado had wins in excess of 300 mph.

    I have friends that live in Moore and it took hours to get a hold of them. Cell service is horrible. My friends wife is an elementary school teacher and after hearing that two schools got hit, I immediately thought of her. Thankfully, her school was not hit.

    She is still at her school with her children as they have not heard from many of their parents....

    Roads are blocked, communications are down, water treatment plants are down. It's a disaster...

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    This is a time lapse video of the tornado.

    After about 30 seconds, you can see how massive it got.

    http://www.wmctv.com/category/240217...autostart=true

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAULYPOKER View Post
    Yes this was a very sad and horrible NATURAL disaster..........

    But Sammy can quit acting as if he gives a fukk,for the fact that he has no human emotion whatsoever.........
    See, it takes Pauly to make this thread ugly.

    I am not going to bite.

    I feel badly for those kids, and my thoughts go out to their families.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDofBA View Post
    I lived just miles from the May 3, 1999 Moore tornado hit that and this one as well. Horrible.

    The 1999 tornado had wins in excess of 320 mph, the highest ever recorded on earth. The national media is saying this tornado is at least a EF4 but local meteorologist in Oklahoma are saying the tornado had wins in excess of 300 mph.

    I have friends that live in Moore and it took hours to get a hold of them. Cell service is horrible. My friends wife is an elementary school teacher and after hearing that two schools got hit, I immediately thought of her. Thankfully, her school was not hit.

    She is still at her school with her children as they have not heard from many of their parents....

    Roads are blocked, communications are down, water treatment plants are down. It's a disaster...
    300 MPH? Holy shit. Unbelievable.

    God speed to the rescue efforts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
    300 MPH? Holy shit. Unbelievable.

    God speeds to the rescue efforts.
    The Nation Weather service won't confirm this for a few days until they survey the damage but that's what the Oklahoma City meteorologist were saying the radar showed.

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    Jesus could have save these people on his magic carpet

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    ^douche

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    I've had CNN on most of the afternoon... it's truly terrible. 20+ kids still missing. People have lost everything: their homes, their pets, everything they own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chipper View Post
    I've had CNN on most of the afternoon... it's truly terrible. 20+ kids still missing. People have lost everything: their homes, their pets, everything they own.
    That's what homeowners insurance for!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkside Magick View Post
    That's what homeowners insurance for!
    It doesn't replace your kids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kermit View Post
    It doesn't replace your kids.
    Ummm....procreate or adopt

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkside Magick View Post
    Ummm....procreate or adopt

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    On Google maps, you can see the satellite map before the devastation.

    When it updates later this year it will be shocking to see.

    https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8...gl=US&hl=en-US

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    Why wouldn't u take ur kid out of school?

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    No one should be living in this area. This is the 3rd major tornado for this town in the last 15 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
    Set your politics aside for a second.

    This is horrible.

    They are digging for survivors at an elementary school.

    Winds may have topped 200 mph.

    Horrifying.


    all fake, cry me a river you broke dikk fukk

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
    I just can't get my head around it.

    They did everything they could have to protect those kids, they got them into a brick building, in the basement.

    Just horrifying. Those kids, those parents, those families.
    shame you weren't at the bottom of the pile

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    Quote Originally Posted by pouyasophy View Post
    shame you weren't at the bottom of the pile
    Why so angry and negative Pouy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamDiamond View Post
    Why so angry and negative Pouy?
    you must've rubbed it off on me...in all seriousness, this is a tragedy. However, you can't use my own lines against me...that's plagiarism. You need to at least properly credit your source, me, or else i'll take ur black ass to court.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robzilla View Post
    Why wouldn't u take ur kid out of school?
    They knew storms were coming that day but it's pretty tough to predict tornados. They only had a 16 minute warning and with the tornado reaching widths of a mile wide it would have been more dangerous to go try and get your kid once you knew there was a tornado.

    The only option you would have had would have been to keep them out all day, and in Oklahoma they get bad storms all the time. Not practical. Most of the schools are well equipped with tornado basements though because of what happened to the same town in 1999. Infact, with the torando completely demolishing one school it's a miracle that there haven't been more deaths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robzilla View Post
    No one should be living in this area. This is the 3rd major tornado for this town in the last 15 years.
    Rob, 3 is a massive understatement. We had an F4 tornado hit just the day before this one (saturday). We had an F4 last year that took the lives of many people including throwing two children in a pond, where they subsequently drowned. That's three major tornadoes in the last year alone. Most just don't hit the more populated cities therefore don't get as much media coverage.

    The guys trolling in this thread are just trying too hard to get a reaction. Yes, it's that obvious. Just let it be. Sometimes things happen in life that are absolutely terrible and you don't have to be that guy. Just let them be. We don't ask for your compassion but that doesn't mean you need to spit on the situation at hand either.

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