Hope for survivors fades at ruined school

[brooklynite]

Source: Tulsa World

MOORE — In a drizzle under hastily erected bright lights, dozens of emergency workers searched into the night Monday for the missing children at the flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School.

“They’re looking for life, but they have not had any hits recently, so they’re in recovery mode now,” Gov. Mary Fallin said late Monday after touring the devastation.

At one point early in the night, about 50 workers formed a line and passed rubble down from the school building that had become a twisted heap of bricks, blocks and iron.

The smell of gas was thick in the air.

Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Hope_for_survivors_fades_at_ruined_school/20130521_100_A1_MOOREI815191

[kristopher]

1. Aerial photos of tornado damage from The Atlantic (must see)

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/photos-of-tornado-damage-in-moore-oklahoma/100518/

[Esse Quam Videri]

2. Some amazing pics in there

Unbelievable

[asjr]

3. The thought that ran through my mind was Will the Republicans who voted not to

help the victims of Sandy also block help to Oklahoma. If they do they should be carried out bodily and thrown down the steps of Congress.

[7962]

4. And then out of complete disrespect, we have this...

Tweeted from Liz Winstead, someone i USED to think was funny: ‘This tornado is in Oklahoma, so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328232/Oklahoma-tornado-Daily-Show-creator-Lizz-Winstead-faces-backlash-insensitive-tweet.html#ixzz2TvfKg5qq
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And the she doubled down on it when criticized. C'mon, Liz. Damn. Eventually she DID delete the post with an apology a few hrs later. Little too late for me though.

[renate]

5. in that article, there's a link to Glenn Beck doing something decent. Seriously.

What Lizz Winstead wrote was horrible--she says she tweeted it before she knew how bad it was, and I hope that's true--but then Glenn Beck, of all people, stuck up for her in a totally unobnoxious way:

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/336665461703970816

Leave lizz winstead alone.Clearly bad joke.How many of us has made a joke we wished we could take back?She has to feel awful.#castfirststone

Wow. Normally I think he is (literally) beneath contempt, but I'm posting this because I think it's nice to give credit where credit is due. He could have piled on, but he didn't.