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Well rode out another night in Broken Arrow, Tulsa Area, Lot of wind and rain but no damage for us. Haskell was not as lucky just south of me a few miles. Looks like better weather going forward and the weather has moved Northeast of us. Hope all of you were not effected last night. Western OK was not as lucky and hope all is well for you.

Bill,

Glad to hear that you are ok. We rode out another round of severe storms last night. Think they were part of the same storm that went through OK.

Watched the radar last night as it went both north and south of us. Got a little too close to my kids, but they built a saferoom into their house so I worried a bit less, but only a bit.

For those of you who have reported in, so thankful you are alright. Prayers for you, your families, friends, neighbors and all others in those paths of destruction. I really feel for you and wish I could be there to help. Hope to get more good reports.

For those of you that might like to see some before and after pictures here is a link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

Our daughter's complex is the second set of pictures down. Click the embedded link for more details and pictures.

Thanks for thoughts and prayers.

So glad to hear that OK friends are ok.

We had another round of tornado warnings last night. We had 8 adults, 4 kids, a dog and a cat all at our house during it. We are the only one with a basement.

yeah ...i watched last night ...it was stormy night.

Bob,
I had seen those pictures and wondered how anyone got out of that apartment complex. I am sure glad she is safe.

The home depot shown is evidently where many people died. The white pieces with the orange stripes laying on the ground are the concrete slabs that they have found some people crushed beneath. One of there jobs now is to drill holes in those slabs and let the dogs sniff to see if there are victims underneath. They expect more dead to be found there last that I heard. Today they released a list of 232 known missing. Some of these are thought to be unidentified in the morgue.

Bill

What time of day did it hit and there must have been little warning??

It hit about 6 pm or so. It was lucky in my opinion that it hit on a Sunday, because it damaged 3 schools, and the high school that has I think 2,200 students, including my grandson, was smashed. On the unlucky side, Wal-mart, Home depot and many other hot Sunday shopping spots were also smashed. The high school is about 5 blocks from my daughters house which was undamaged. My grandson walked to school every day.
Bill

billmeyer wrote:It hit about 6 pm or so. It was lucky in my opinion that it hit on a Sunday, because it damaged 3 schools, and the high school that has I think 2,200 students, including my grandson, was smashed. On the unlucky side, Wal-mart, Home depot and many other hot Sunday shopping spots were also smashed. The high school is about 5 blocks from my daughters house which was undamaged. My grandson walked to school every day.
Bill

But no real warnings so everyone could get home?