Tornado cam with in mile or so of the house but just a few limbs broke. No power at home since about 8 last night. Lots of flooding, even in my area which is high in elevation and a deep ditch (I-44) by me. I am in NW 23rd and Portland area. Stay safe Okies!
Prayers, for all!
David
Did you have enough notice so you were able to grab your lawn chair and cooler so you could climb up on the roof to watch the excitement?
David
Well, that is usually how we do it, but it was a monsoon with hail and I am a delicate soul.
All accounted for...except for that CNN Tornado Chaser that actually caught one last night. He's OK, but a one vehicle poorer and a lot smarter.
"There you go Pilgrim, skin'm and I'll bring ye another."
BTW David, I grew up in your same area, except it was undeveloped. We bought raw milk at Carn's dairy. That was the house that use to be there on 23rd. St. where the Dale Roger's Center is at now.
23rd. & Meridian was a dirt intersection with nothing but a fruit stand on the NW corner. We use to fish in the ponds they filled in to build that shopping center. That was light-years ago.
The Deep Fork Creek runs all back in there and I've seen Portland with 6' of water running across it there by the park on 30th.
Glad you're ok.
From my daughter who lives in Edmond:
We drove to Moore today, as Tony suggested, to see things for ourselves. He was not exaggerating when he said the destruction is so much worse than what is shown on the news. We were in shock. The affected area was SO much bigger than we thought: mile after mile of destroyed homes and businesses. You see all those homes destroyed and you think there is no way anyone walked out alive.
I wanted to see if the OKC Bombing Memorial marker was still at the school I worked at two months ago. It wasn't near the building, but in a grassy area of the parking lot. We turned the corner to the school and we saw the entire neighborhood flattened. School, houses, everything. Completely destroyed. I just don't understand how the kids in that school got out alive. It looks like there is absolutely nothing salvageable in the massive mile-wide pile of rubble.
Another feeling that came over me as we drove thru town: where do you start? It seems like such an insurmountable task to put the town back together. Where in the world will they put all the stuff they have to haul off? Then to start from almost scratch with every single one of the thousand homes that have to be rebuilt.
There were still a bunch of assistance tents/locations set up where people could get whatever they needed, which is really nice to see.
It was shocking. Incomprehensible.
Paden
And you probably never went in the Red Dog Saloon on NW 10th either. 🙂
The Intergallactically Famous Roarin' Red Dog Saloon...
Never heard of it..;-)
ha!
Use to drop by there from time to time back in the early '70s. When my brother got an apartment across the street from there my friends and I were in heaven. All we had to do was walk across the street to crash! It's hard to believe it's still there.
Little known fact: The Red Dog was originally (early '60s) on N. May Ave. It occupied an old automotive garage. The barkeep was in the front-end alignment pit toward a wall...something they maintained (bartenders being about 2' lower than the stools) at the 'new' location.
The Intergallactically Famous Roarin' Red Dog Saloon...
My Aunt and her family lived about two blocks north of there when I was a kid. That was the late 60's and early 70's.
I spent some time there in the summers running around with my cousins. We were too young for the clubs at the time but I do remember my dad sneaking off a few times when we went to visit. My mother would find him there at the Red Dog.
My Aunt is living about a mile southwest of of there now. Two of my cousins are still in the area and one is in Dell City.
James
