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Massive tornadoes toss trucks across skies as large, extremely dangerous twisters target Texas
Daily Mail Online UK ^ | UPDATED: 15:11 EST, 3 April 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 04/03/2012 1:25:55 PM PDT by Mechanicos

Millions of people are being urged to seek shelter immediately as dramatic news footage shows trucks and other massive debris being thrown across the skies in Texas.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dallas; danger; flyingj; texas; tornadoes
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To: copaliscrossing

Talked to my granddaughter there and everyone is OK.


21 posted on 04/03/2012 2:08:53 PM PDT by taillightchaser (Third party=four more years of marxism)
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To: copaliscrossing
Anyone know if the town of Keller has been hit?

I've been listening to WBAP and I think Keller is ok. The main cell went east of there... over DFW Airport

22 posted on 04/03/2012 2:09:10 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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To: af_vet_rr

Chill pill, af. We’re all stressed today, no need to parse words.

I’m an old Texas gal, quite well acquainted with weather terminology, both proper and colloquial. So a funnel on the ground is a tornado. Maybe you can lecture me on whether “twister” is a proper term??

They’re now saying there were no kids in the school. Since Forney is east of Dallas, they may well have had time to dismiss and get them all home before the storms rolled in there. I don’t know. Arlington and Dallas schools did indeed shelter in place, in lockdown.


23 posted on 04/03/2012 2:10:32 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: af_vet_rr
chances are they got the kids into the safest part of the school and hunkered down.

Arlington Martin was on lockdown until 3:30 or so. I heard Arlington High was on lockdown longer than that.

24 posted on 04/03/2012 2:10:54 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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To: Mechanicos

Texas has the scariest weather in the country.

Wonder how my former home in Gainesville/Lake Kiowa is doing?


25 posted on 04/03/2012 2:11:19 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Mechanicos

whew. It was all around Irving and over us but nothing happened here. Thank goodness.


26 posted on 04/03/2012 2:13:02 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Mechanicos

Yes, Shneider Trucking in Dallas got gobsmacked. That is what all the orange trailers were. The Flying J truck stop is next to it (they WERE really flying today)

I hunkered down here and turned off the laptop, just in case. But Irving was spared.


27 posted on 04/03/2012 2:15:55 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: af_vet_rr

I checked. Forney ISD sheltered in place.

Our schools all have emergency plans and seem to have done an excellent job today in protecting our kids.


28 posted on 04/03/2012 2:16:18 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah

Is their an update on that Elementary School?


29 posted on 04/03/2012 2:17:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: r-q-tek86

I’m sorry, but what is a “tilt wall building”?


30 posted on 04/03/2012 2:18:33 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: RitchieAprile

A little rain, that’s all, apparently. There was a nasty cell moving SW to NE through Denton County that clipped SE Cooke County, but I don’t think Cooke got any damage.

Farm and family home there.


31 posted on 04/03/2012 2:18:46 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: sissyjane

That sounds very California, doesn’t it? ;-)


32 posted on 04/03/2012 2:20:46 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: r-q-tek86

I heard Arlington High was locked down for a while.


33 posted on 04/03/2012 2:22:17 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Jedidah

Well, actually I’m a fifth generation Californian, and I don’t have a clue what it means. That’s why I asked.


34 posted on 04/03/2012 2:23:31 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: Jedidah

Well, actually I’m a fifth generation Californian, and I don’t have a clue what it means. That’s why I asked.


35 posted on 04/03/2012 2:23:43 PM PDT by sissyjane
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To: sissyjane
I’m sorry, but what is a “tilt wall building”?

That is a building made from concrete panels. The panels are poured flat on the slab and then tilted up into place. They are like hugh (sic) card houses if thry don't have a strong roof structure and proper lateral bracing.

36 posted on 04/03/2012 2:24:27 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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To: Jedidah

lol. You already answered that question in the previous post


37 posted on 04/03/2012 2:26:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: sissyjane

Tilt wall panel being erected

38 posted on 04/03/2012 2:27:51 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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To: r-q-tek86
I heard Arlington High was on lockdown longer than that.

Why do government schools use prison terminology?

39 posted on 04/03/2012 2:30:06 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: freedumb2003

Wow! Your wife was lucky....stay safe - both of you.


40 posted on 04/03/2012 2:31:03 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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