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LIVE Streaming Coverage of Moore, OK, Tornado Search/Rescue/Recovery Ops.
KFOR-TV 4, OKC ^ | 5/21/13 | KFOR-TV 4, OKC

Posted on 05/21/2013 3:21:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

Search, Rescue & Recovery operations continue. 91 confirmed dead as of 6:15am, EST.

More severe storms are approaching the area, at this minute, according to TV station's weather dept.

The films of the EF-5(?) from yesterday are amazing, scary and gut-wrenching. TV crews have been up all night with rescue workers and first responders.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: moore; recovery; rescue; tornado
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To: carriage_hill

Every hour we learn of someone we know who lost their home or worse. Our house is full of family with either damage or can’t get to their home. My wife and I sold our house last month and moved to an acreage with a cellar and land. We used to live in Westmoore neighborhood where Briarwood elementary was. Old house is gone. We pray for the family that bought our old house.


21 posted on 05/21/2013 5:26:52 AM PDT by optiguy (Winter is coming.)
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To: usconservative
Re donations:

Here's a list via OKC News9 of organization's offering shelter/relief for the tornado refugees, and it's a good bet that any of them would be grateful for direct donations.

Shelters Open In OKC Metro For Those Affected By Massive Tornado

22 posted on 05/21/2013 5:35:05 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: usconservative

Over 90 deaths, but just over 100 were rescued from rubble piles overnight.

We will probably hear of additional ones in each category in the coming days.

==

As this storm line moved through NW Arkansas, it had lost much of its severity, but still caused localized damage.

Sadly, it took another viction. A 19-year old male was killed by storm debris in Springdale, Arkansas.

http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=431032


23 posted on 05/21/2013 5:43:09 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: optiguy

Glad that everyone is okay. Things can be replaced; lives can’t. Prayers for you all.


24 posted on 05/21/2013 6:07:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: usconservative

Salvation Army is there; donate to them.


25 posted on 05/21/2013 6:08:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

Be back later...


26 posted on 05/21/2013 6:17:25 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

Medical Examiner revises death toll number down to 24, at present.


27 posted on 05/21/2013 6:55:42 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: carriage_hill


Storms seem to be rebuilding. It could be another rough day.
28 posted on 05/21/2013 7:07:23 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: TomGuy

Fox going wall to wall with OK story even though there is no new news. I guess they know what puts eyeballs on screens. I get that. But, some balance would be nice from an organization that claims to bring that.


29 posted on 05/21/2013 7:08:49 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: carriage_hill
god bless those people!
30 posted on 05/21/2013 7:15:55 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: carriage_hill

Adding a bit of good news to this sad, awful event.

http://news.sky.com/story/1093711/tornado-survivor-finds-dog-during-tv-interview


31 posted on 05/21/2013 7:16:58 AM PDT by TheMom (Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts!)
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To: optiguy

You mention having a cellar; doesn’t everyone out in that neck of the woods have either a basement or some sort of storm cellar?

I’m a California Native, born ‘n’ raised, but I’ve got family out in the Twin Cities of MN and they always talked about heading to the basement in the event of a tornado.

Guess I sort of assumed that, in any region where a tornado might be at all likely, your property would either have a cellar, or a basement, or you’d sell a car, or the plasma TV, or the dining room furniture — you’d just do whatever it took to have one dug out for you.

I can tell you unequivocally; if it eventuated that I had to move my family out to ANYWHERE that tornado activity was at all probable, if the house we bought didn’t have one already, there WOULD be a storm cellar or basement on the premises before we moved in. Just NO WAY I’d EVER take the chance of needing one and not having one.

I saw the storm chaser video of this monster that hit Moore, yesterday, and I simply cannot imagine being in the path of that thing, and having NOWHERE to hide but the bathtub. Out here in CA we have a word for that sort of thing; we call it “suicide.”


32 posted on 05/21/2013 7:18:05 AM PDT by HKMk23 (Cultures succumb not to ideas, but to superior cultures. Invoke the "Super Culture." Matt. 9:38)
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Demand accountabilty!
Stop this slap in our face!

Let's git 'er done!! Please Contribute Today!

33 posted on 05/21/2013 8:15:45 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: ken5050

“Moore is almost no more..”

Finally got in touch with my friends in Prague, about 50 miles from Moore. He was packing up his chainsaws and heading to Moore. He’s probably there by now.


34 posted on 05/21/2013 8:20:45 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: HKMk23
Very few homes here have basements. In our case, the old neighbor had a cellar and we were friends so we never put one in knowing we were welcomed to get in theirs if needed.

For the last few years we've been working toward the goal of buying a place like the one we have now that's better suited for self-sustainability. Well water, back up generator, shop, acreage, cellar and the wife's got a salt water swimming pool to sit by while the dark days approach.

35 posted on 05/21/2013 8:31:51 AM PDT by optiguy (Winter is coming.)
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To: TomGuy

Better news amid all the sadness. Hard to find words to express that...


36 posted on 05/21/2013 8:45:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: TomGuy

I saw the forecast of those building, around 6am, on KFOR-TV Weather/News stream. Crap, they sure don’t need more of it.


37 posted on 05/21/2013 8:47:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: TheMom

Saw that on TV this morning; lucky doggie.


38 posted on 05/21/2013 8:48:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: HKMk23
In some areas of Texas and Oklahoma, underground shelters are not a viable engineering option. I live over the edge of an underground stream. There is no way, without spending hundreds of thousands, that I could have an underground shelter.

/johnny

39 posted on 05/21/2013 9:55:16 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: usconservative

“If anyone knows of a good recovery effort to donate to (NOT Red Cross - Local in OK if possible) please post that information on this thread.”

The Oklahoma Baptists have teams there.

Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief
http://www.bgco.org/ministries/disaster-relief
http://www.okdisasterhelp.com/


40 posted on 05/21/2013 10:05:01 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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