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[PopeReal]

Holy crap, there is nothing left in the video I am watching.

 

[JdFoX187]

I fucking hate overenthusiastic television reporters. Fucking whores.

 

[Seanspeed]

Oh wow, this guy on the stream is embarrassing.

EDIT: "Obwiviated"

"Form" (supposed to be farm)

"Aks" (ask)

Ah, and there was apparently a daycare that is completely gone now. Just not even there.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

This was a neighborhood an hour ago.

 

[maquiladora]

Oh wow, this guy on the stream is embarrassing.

Yeah he needs to dial it down a notch, that owner was still in shock.

 

[JdFoX187]

Oh wow, this guy on the stream is embarrassing.

It's restrained jubilation. Fucking ridiculous. Control yourself better.

Devastation is absolutely staggering.

 

[chaosblade]

Wow, that's terrible.

I hope those kids were already out.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

This was a neighborhood an hour ago.

This is insane.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

"Biggest destructive tornado in the history of the world"

This sounds a bit like hyperbole, at least this early. I mean, it could be, but let the NWS do a survey first.

 

[Seanspeed]

This was a neighborhood an hour ago.

Proper wood-framed houses, too. Its not uncommon to see trailer parks look something like that, but these were actual houses.

Jesus.

 

[cajunator]

This is not good...

That's one of the strongest hook echoes Ive ever seen.

 

[UberTag]

"This is the worst tornado in terms of damage in the history of the world." - It's bad but I'm amazed when people can say things like that with a straight face.

 

[Seanspeed]

And here we go again. <sigh>

 

[JdFoX187]

"This is the worst tornado in terms of damage in the history of the world." - It's bad but I'm amazed when people can say things like that with a straight face.

Grab those ratings, bro.

 

[Goreomedy]

"Biggest destructive tornado in the history of the world"

This sounds a bit like hyperbole, at least this early. I mean, it could be, but let the NWS do a survey first.

"This is the worst tornado in terms of damage in the history of the world." - It's bad but I'm amazed when people can say things like that with a straight face.

Yeah, Mike Morgan and David Payne are the worst when it comes to hyperbole. Gary England from channel 9 is most level-headed meteorologist we have.

 

[Liberty4all]

holy fuck the pics coming out are crazy

 

[maquiladora]

This was a neighborhood an hour ago.

Damage does look possibily more severe and wider than 1999 :

 

[vilmer_]

Another funnel forming it looks like.

 

[cajunator]

Multiple fatalities being reported

 

[Dave_6]

Horrible

 

[Seanspeed]

Multiple fatalities being reported

Its not going to be pretty.

75-100 horses killed at this one farm already.

 

[pxleyes]

2.25 miles wide?! Is such a thing possible?

 

[CrankyJay]

Wow, awful. I just walked in the door and my wife mentioned a school or two getting leveled.

 

[chaosblade]

Wow, awful. I just walked in the door and my wife mentioned a school or two getting leveled.

Sounds like kids were in there too.

 

[Seanspeed]

2.25 miles wide?! Is such a thing possible?

The debris cloud was that large. It was just the news lady not understanding what the weather people were saying, misreporting it.

More realistically, it looks maybe 1/2 to 3/4 mile wide on the ground.

2.25 miles wide would be unprecedented.

 

[maquiladora]

Oh no. Kids were in those schools.

 

[pxleyes]

Already talk of the possibility of kids being injured in those 2 schools injured. Described as 'chaos'. Omg...Lance breaking down on the air.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Oh man. Reporter on the scene crying. ;_;

 

[Goreomedy]

Never heard Lance break down like that. Wow.

 

[piratepwnsninja]

Guy on the phone said it's the most devastating he's seen in 18 years of covering tornadoes in the area.

This is terrible.

 

[Big Papa Husker]

What stream is everyone watching?

 

[Seraphis Cain]

What stream is everyone watching?

http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/

 

[jayhawker]

Man, that reporter has me in tears.

 

[Elfforkusu]

I hope this isn't inappropriate at this point, but watching CNN as a European, I can't help but ask: How do different types of construction react to these kinds of storms? American houses look so flimsy. Would brick and concrete houses be affected just as badly?

The images look horrific.

You'll find that most structures have trouble holding up to wind/debris crashing into them at 225 mph (360 km/h).

 

[StopMakingSense]

Wow that earlier helicopter footage of the tornado. That is insane.

 

[Wag]

Local news here in Boston is worthless. "They are moving things" Really? No shit.

 

[K.Sabot]

This is the 3rd time in the same area. Should probably let that place go...

 

[BFIB]

Man, that reporter has me in tears.

Yeah, that was hard to listen to. Especially when its his job to maintain composure. Tells you how bad this really is.

Feel for the guy, glad they broke away so he could get off the air.

 

[Spiritreaver]

Been a crazy week here lately. The storm that hit yesterday was just as bad and the big tornado started right in my area, but moved east. People lucked out cause it mostly hit rural areas and not a town like this one today.

 

[Freyjadour]

This is the 3rd time in the same area. Should probably let that place go...

Moore is a magnet for this stuff.

 

[cajunator]

severe damage right by the Moore Medical Center at that 7 eleven. Damn I think this actually does look worse than May 1999.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Just tuned in. Can someone brief me on whats all happened, the damage, etc?

 

[NihonTiger90]

Gondo, hope you are somewhere safe right now. Possible tornado near you.

 

[squicken]

I spent summers in OK as a kid. Those weather guys would go on and on every damn time a storm was coming. They would hype crap up to get ratings, to the point that people just ignored them. We wouldn't go into the cellar unless the town's sirens went off. I wonder if a place as big as Moore even has those

 

[maquiladora]

Shocking.

 

[Mortalias]

15 kids still stuck in one of the elementary schools.

 

[SuperAndroid17]

15 out of 75 children missing from that elementary school

 

[Seanspeed]

75 kids confirmed in the school.

EDIT: Different reports.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

15 kids still stuck in one of the elementary schools.

They're saying 75 now.

 

[GashPrex]

Looks like a nuclear bomb went off....geez.

Saying something like 75 kids trapped in the school...