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Tornado strikes Oklahoma

  • 20-05-2013 09:56PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭


    Massive tornado has just touched ground in Oklahoma. Turn on sky news if you can. Live coverage of the scene. Scary stuff altogether. I'm glad we don't have that kind of weather here. :eek:

    OP Edit:

    It's quickly becoming clear that this is a major incident with kids amongst the dead and injured. Please be aware of that before posting your funnies.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Thinly veiled 'I have Sky News' thread.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    It's finished now.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Good thread all things considered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    Thinly veiled 'I have Sky News' thread.

    he's welcome to it too :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Good thread all things considered.

    I enjoyed it. It got the kids out for the day like.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Fox News reporting that a school has been flattened.

    Early warnings seems to have saved many lives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    We do ge tornados here, just not on that scale of destruction. I believe a building was knocked onto a car in Donegal once.

    Edit: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Tornado-hits-Ireland---Derry-farmers-escape-freak-weather-phenomenon---VIDEO-123609314.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    this stuff happens all the time in the US


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    After guinness or murphys i leave tornados behind me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    CNN reporting that it was wearing a hat at the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    The weatherman just estimated its the most destructive Tornado cost-wise in recorded history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    CNN reporting that it was wearing a hat at the time.
    Fox news reporting it is was some kind of turban!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    A tornado strikes in a state in Tornado Valley that ranks in the top three for tornado strikes per year and it makes Sky News.

    Sure they might as well report on the next rainfall in the midlands so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    A tornado strikes in a state in Tornado Valley that ranks in the top three for tornado strikes per year and it makes Sky News.

    Sure they might as well report on the next rainfall in the midlands so.

    In context - if the next rainfall in the midlands was a torrential downpour that caused flooding and damage on an unprecedented scale I would imagine they would report it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    What makes this story unique is that there are reports that suburban towns have been wiped out. It spanned a mile and a half. This was huge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭kingcobra


    I hate the Sky News is broadcasting this 'Press Preview' shite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    It's live on CNN now. Apparently there was about 75 kids in a school when the tornado hit. The school is now flattened and they're searching for the kids.
    Awful stuff, I hope everyone gets out ok.

    The size of the damaged area is huge!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    kingcobra wrote: »
    I hate the Sky News is broadcasting this 'Press Preview' shite


    If you have UPC, turn on CNN. It's channel 205.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    It was 2 miles wide at one point. That's incredible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    I fear we will wake up to reports of massive casualties. :( There's a flattened school that they are currently pulling kids out of. Hope to God they were all underground for it. This is quite distressing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Someone reported seeing a badly injured teacher lying across three schoolkids to protect them during the storm. They said the teacher looked in a bad way and didn't look as though he was gonna make it, but he was still trying to protect the kids.
    I'd say it was terrifying. Poor kids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Wow. Two whole pages of posts, and yet no one has hijacked it yet to question why we care more about what happens in a school in Oklahoma, than we do insert your own bog standard, US instigated Middle East atrocity here
    > . Amazing !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    Someone reported seeing a badly injured teacher lying across three schoolkids to protect them during the storm. They said the teacher looked in a bad way and didn't look as though he was gonna make it, but he was still trying to protect the kids.
    I'd say it was terrifying. Poor kids.

    Glad we've seen the end of the jokes from the first page of this thread.

    A hospital has also been wrecked.

    The kids in the school are reported to be kindergarten to 6 or 7 years old:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Wow. Two whole pages of posts, and yet no one has hijacked it yet to question why we care more about what happens in a school in Oklahoma, than we do insert your own bog standard, US instigated Middle East atrocity here
    > . Amazing !

    I think that's because most posters so far haven't cared at all.

    (In fairness I don't think people realise how bad this actually is)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Wow. Two whole pages of posts, and yet no one has hijacked it yet to question why we care more about what happens in a school in Oklahoma, than we do insert your own bog standard, US instigated Middle East atrocity here
    > . Amazing !

    That's not really fair. Some of us care about tragedies, no matter where they happen, no matter who they affect.

    I read on one of the local news sites that the warning only sounded a minute before the tornado hit ground, not sure if that's normally the way they work but seems awfully short notice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    One thing I don't understand is, Oklahoma is slap bang in tornado alley. Stuff like this is a yearly occurrence, albeit not of this magnitude, So Why isn't there building regulations that make sure schools, hospitals etc have storm shelters built underneath the building?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    I read on one of the local news sites that the warning only sounded a minute before the tornado hit ground, not sure if that's normally the way they work but seems awfully short notice.

    Tornados can be extremely unpredictable and can pop up at very short notice. They're not something that can be predicted at any sort of long period of time.


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