This is truly horrifying. Please pray for all those in Moore, Oklahoma.
A mile-wide tornado with 200mph winds churned through Oklahoma City’s suburbs Monday afternoon, causing significant property damage for the second day in a row, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread in other parts of the Plains and Midwest.
Television footage on Monday afternoon showed homes and buildings that had been reduced to rubble in Moore, Okla., south of Oklahoma City. Footage also showed vehicles littering roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma City.
Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department said an elementary school in Moore suffered “extensive damage.” A Norman, Okla. regional health system spokesperson told Fox News that Moore Medical Center, the only hospital in the city, also suffered “extensive structural damage,” demolishing the second floor of the hospital and tearing off part of the roof.
Words do not do the devastation justice.
Update: This will give you some idea of the damage.
As of this writing there are six confirmed dead.
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Undoubtedly the Red Cross will be there as soon as possible.
As of this morning the death toll is up to 90 and likely to go higher. Those of you who are weather geeks like me probably thought tornadoes couldn’t get any worse than Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 2011, but I think this one did.
Of course, the loss of 20+ children at a destroyed grade school is probably the most wrenching aspect of it all. That tears the heart right out of you whether you are a parent or not.