"No pod racing today?"
Posted on 05/13/2010 10:54:59 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Not a good week for OK
They’re ALWAYS too close for me! Stay safe. :)
Happened at 0500 and breaking news at 1400?
Not
Glad you are okay!
"No pod racing today?"
Best wishes for your safety.
parsy
Prayers for your area. Stay safe!
Aw, crap. Prayers going up! Be safe, OK residents!
We’re on the phone now trying to locate our families in Tulsa. Looks like something is heading our way!
Just got in touch with the Tulsa family! They are ok now!
Thankfully, it missed us. We’re out west of Sapulpa, and all we got was wind and rain. Lots of damage in T-town though.
Couple years ago...had a twister come thru about 5 miles from me.
Rode a horse thru the damage maybe a week later.....cows dead, fences destroyed, trees ruined. Had a big heavy tri-pod deer stand disappear...never found it.
Anyhoo....glad you are well.
Woke us up about 5am. Sirens were on, which we learned are not only tornadoes, but winds over 80 mph. It passed quickly. We have power, but a friend in the southwest doesn’t. Trees down at Oral Roberts University and more so across the river.
I have a friend in Coweta. She said it sounded like a freight train going through. No damage or injuries to her family, just the trees thankfully.
I grew up in Sapulpa. It’s weird to see it in the breaking news column.
Just got back from driving around in the damaged areas from Riverside Drive (just north of 71st) where the tornado crossed the Arkansas River, going east —and we drove through the neighborhoods and across S. Peoria, about halfway between 61st and 71st, then continuing east through the neighborhoods and over to that shopping center with the roof facade which was blown off, at 61st and S Lewis. It’s across the street from the Souhern Hills Country Club...
I understand the tornado was on the ground for about 25 miles, and was moving along at about 65 MPH (of course, its own winds were higher than that). As far as I could see, it looked like the wind damage indicated a funnel that was as wide as perhaps one block wide (that would be about a 500 foot funnel (or at least for major wind damage, anyway)... and we were six blocks from its pathway ... hoo-boy! ... :-)
I only saw the pathway of the tornado from Riverside Drive, at the Arkansas River (the Eastside, going East), going over to S. Lewis and 61st, but I understand that there was more severe damage on the Westside and more homes damaged over there.
Well, that’s interesting, because it happened so fast for people (just before 5 AM) that by the time anyone took any action to secure themselves in a “safe place” in the house, it had already passed by. I guess with it moving at about 65 MPH, it was a fast moving one.
We didn’t see it or even wake up ... :-) ... but it passed by within six blocks ...
Well, it the “old days” it would be “breaking news” if you got the report six months later ... LOL ...
People are too hooked on 24-hour news, I think ... :-)
Thanks ... :-)
I guess the sirens were on city-wide (from what I hear on the news) but the tornado came from Sapulpa, crossed the Arkansas River at just north of 71st street, and you could clearly see its pathway through the trees and neighborhood where it crossed Riverside Drive, and then headed on over to 61st and S. Lewis... crossing S. Peoria somewhere half-way between 61st and 71st — and I stopped following the pathway at Southern Hills Country Club at S. Lewis... but it went on a lot further.
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