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Originally Posted by Goooh
I was born in Moore, mom grew up there, aunt and grandparents still there. 1999 went just north of their house, this one just south - Crazy!!!! They are blessed their house is still standing and they survived both of these massive twisters.
The school with the unaccounted children is where my mom went when she was little, weird seeing all that - I cringe thinking of how that has to feel, I'm not good at empathizing, but these situations give me some serious knots in my stomach. I called my grandparents as soon as I found out and obviously the phones were down and towers jammed up - had to wait to see if they were still around :/
God bless all of the families with lost kin...
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I remember 1999 well. It was the first week of May (a week before Mother's Day). My wife and kids were helping clean up from a family reunion we attended in Buck Thomas Park the day before. We watched that thing for 30 minutes before it grounded. When it hit you could see stuff tumbling sky-high. Damndest noise I've ever heard. We all knelt right there and asked the Lord to please spare 'em. Luckily, the loss of life was not as bad as we thought. It might not have been the deadliest tornado on record, but, it is still regarded as the costliest....$1 billion damage in 45 minutes. It was measured as an EF-5 with winds in excess of 300 mph. Hard for me to even fathom something with 2 1/2 times the power of Hurricane Katrina.
God Speed to everyone in the path of today's storm.