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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan't stop crying, 2 schools hit, 1 leveled by tornadoes
I can't stand it, I can't stand it.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)much better, just bad damage but survivable.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I almost threw up when I saw it.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)I'm hoping for the best.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Response to Happyhippychick (Original post)
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Texasgal
(17,048 posts)Or not there at all... this is awful.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)basements.
A lot of that land won't support a basement.
Texasgal
(17,048 posts)I am hoping that during their rebuild they built shelters. I hate tornados. I've been stuck in many of them through out my life, they are scary!
wercal
(1,370 posts)Footings have to be built below frost depth. Frost is 8 ft in North Dakota, so you've practically built a basement just getting down to frost. South Texas doesn't get frost...so footings are only a ft deep. In all areas in between, it gradually goes from very few basements in TX to almost all houses in North Dakota.
Alot of new construction in the plains, however, has above ground shelters. They make one of the closets out of concrete.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Sometimes, they'll dig out underneath a garage slab (a crawl space, if you will) as a storm cellar. Our "storm area" is a reinforced walkin closet in the exact middle of the house. It's not concrete. A lot of new construction is reinforced steel beams.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)One of the schools doesn't have a basement or even a sublevel. I'm not sure about the other school.
Yeah, full basements like the ones in North Dakota, aren't the norm in OK City.
wercal
(1,370 posts)I don't know which school or if that was even accurate.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)During a regular school day.
Let's hope the superintendent of those area schools was watching the storm system and let them go even earlier. Plainfield IL was a national lesson and many, many schools learned it the hard way. My daughter's N IL school is very proactive in letting the kids go early as the storms develop and it looks like trouble.
I really, really hope nobody was in there...
redqueen
(115,103 posts)It is an incredibly frightening situation to be in... Those of you who have been through it know exactly what I'm talking about.
Please let them have been at home with their families please please please
Texasgal
(17,048 posts)It lasted forever too... It was on the ground for a long time.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)After 8 years. I'm heartsick.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)All we can do is hope they are safe. I hope the schools have basements (sub-levels)
freshwest
(53,661 posts)On the ground an hour - guess they are several different funnels or one huge one. There was one like that through the Panhandle years ago, but it wasn't in a very populated area. This is going to be awful there. I thought it was going to be over yesterday when about a dozen were reported to have been killed, but no such luck for today.
OK, KS, all of it.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)Congressman Cole lives in the neighborhood and was on CNN.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)What does CNN say - can you see the building?
Pretty dangerous even reporting this if it's not going to let up.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)Some of the pics are posted here on DU.
Other than that, it is a dangerous situation for reporting. They have rescue on the scene and triage set up in the school parking lot.
LeftInTX
(25,567 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,932 posts)I haven't heard if there was more than one.
This sounds pretty bad, freshwest.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)@BuzzFeedAndrew: Farmer being interviewed on KFOR: "There's maybe 75-100 dead horses."
@adolwyn: Multiple reports of cars crushed on I-35 with people trapped in them from scanners. I-35 is closed both directions. #okwx.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)They are pulling kids out of the flattened school. Children were in the Plaza Towers elementary school.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and the anchors in the news room were very very supportive of him.
He had just arrived at one of the devastated schools, where they were pulling kids out.
tosh
(4,424 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Lance West, the helicopter pilot, he has heard his family is OK but yeah it got to him.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I agree this is horrendous, but you and I have to handle it for the kids there that are trapped! I am crying but we can handle it! Pray or give out good vibes for the first responders freeing kids from the rubble! You CAN handle it, even if you cannot stand it. I cannot stand it either, but maintaining composure is good during a crisis like this. REMEMBER, they are saving kids RIGHT NOW pulling them from the debris.
YES YOU CAN!