Folks in tornado areas -- Please check in!!!

[Kathie in Thorp]

Hoping everyone is okay, and all of your people are okay, and your homes and buildings are still standing. Those in OK and TX and KS and elsewhere that have been hit -- they are in our prayers. We have folks in W. Central Missouri, but so far, except for lots of rain and some hail, they are alright. :heart:

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Please . . . check in? Everyone OK?

 

[Commercialfarmer]

Kathy,

I don't know of any of the OK people I've talked to on here being in the pathway of the ones we've had. I didn't hear that there were any in the TX area this time. I don't know about the MO area.

 

[pdfangus]

they very well may not have power or cell service.....

 

[DLD]

Well, I haven't been around CT long, but we're fine - Thanks for asking Kathie. I have lots of friends in the El Reno-Yukon area - several suffered property damage, but thankfully no one I know was hurt. Pretty much all the buildings at the OKC West stockyards were destroyed, the people there rode it out under a heavy steel stairway and under the scales. Out of 160 head of cattle there, only 2 were killed, and a few are being treated for injuries from debris. 7 were found unhurt, across the interstate, maybe 4 are still missing. The rest were unhurt, still in their pens.

 

[Fly-guy]

This past week has been one of those road warrior weeks as we drove a little over 1700 miles in four days. We started out from home Thursday and ended up out just East of 3ways backyard. I didn't think the drought could have been any worse any where else than in Western Kansas but found it to be much worse in Eastern Colorado. We saw several pastures where the only plants left were occasional yuccas and dirt. The grass was simply GONE. We only saw two pastures with cattle in them and it looked real bad.

We took a couple of our grandkids back home last Thursday and came by Shawnee. They had to have at least two west of town as there was tree damage crossing I-40 in two different places plus the damage in town. When we came by El-Reno Sunday afternoon on our way home we saw the damage along I-40. It was bad on both sides of the Interstate from MM 125 eastward to about MM 131. The tornado just ran down both sides of the interstate and then moved off to the North East. I heard on the news that it was the widest Tornado in history at two and one half miles and that it had been upgraded to an EF5.

When we turned back South we went past the tornado damage in Moore and it was simply unbelievable. I personally have never seen so much damage from so many different tornados. All of those affected by the drought and violent storms certainly need our continued prayers.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

So glad to hear from some of you! Everyone in OK, and the lesser news-feed people in MO and TX with tornadoes, and many with flood damage -- you are in our prayers out here out west. It would be mighty strange if we got a tsuanamie (sp?) here, or another volcano; few tornadoes have hit out this way in years. We might bytch about our winter roads, and droughts that don't compare with what happens in the S.W., but ours = small potatoes to what happens to some of the rest of you.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

:roll: :roll: I am real sure if anybody was effected they have better things to do than play on the computer like you do.

That wasn't very nice, but you aren't required to be nice here. It's spelled "affected."

 

[Bigfoot]

Having quit tv, I rely on word of mouth. I heard that one was the widest in history, and just slightly shy of a record speed. Sounds devastating. I have worked a lot storm clean ups. I've got three weeks of business trips, that I can't get out of. Wish I could go help.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Having quit tv, I rely on word of mouth. I heard that one was the widest in history, and just slightly shy of a record speed. Sounds devastating. I have worked a lot storm clean ups. I've got three weeks of business trips, that I can't get out of. Wish I could go help.

Same here, Bigfoot. Pretty sure bro-in-law will be doing something from MO to help, as he did last year.

 

[Commercialfarmer]

This past week has been one of those road warrior weeks as we drove a little over 1700 miles in four days. We started out from home Thursday and ended up out just East of 3ways backyard. I didn't think the drought could have been any worse any where else than in Western Kansas but found it to be much worse in Eastern Colorado. We saw several pastures where the only plants left were occasional yuccas and dirt. The grass was simply GONE. We only saw two pastures with cattle in them and it looked real bad.

We took a couple of our grandkids back home last Thursday and came by Shawnee. They had to have at least two west of town as there was tree damage crossing I-40 in two different places plus the damage in town. When we came by El-Reno Sunday afternoon on our way home we saw the damage along I-40. It was bad on both sides of the Interstate from MM 125 eastward to about MM 131. The tornado just ran down both sides of the interstate and then moved off to the North East. I heard on the news that it was the widest Tornado in history at two and one half miles and that it had been upgraded to an EF5.

When we turned back South we went past the tornado damage in Moore and it was simply unbelievable. I personally have never seen so much damage from so many different tornados. All of those affected by the drought and violent storms certainly need our continued prayers.

I hate to correct you, but since my mother felt the need to correct me it must be important. The tornado was not 2 and 1/2 miles wide. It was 2.6 miles wide.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

This past week has been one of those road warrior weeks as we drove a little over 1700 miles in four days. We started out from home Thursday and ended up out just East of 3ways backyard. I didn't think the drought could have been any worse any where else than in Western Kansas but found it to be much worse in Eastern Colorado. We saw several pastures where the only plants left were occasional yuccas and dirt. The grass was simply GONE. We only saw two pastures with cattle in them and it looked real bad.

We took a couple of our grandkids back home last Thursday and came by Shawnee. They had to have at least two west of town as there was tree damage crossing I-40 in two different places plus the damage in town. When we came by El-Reno Sunday afternoon on our way home we saw the damage along I-40. It was bad on both sides of the Interstate from MM 125 eastward to about MM 131. The tornado just ran down both sides of the interstate and then moved off to the North East. I heard on the news that it was the widest Tornado in history at two and one half miles and that it had been upgraded to an EF5.

When we turned back South we went past the tornado damage in Moore and it was simply unbelievable. I personally have never seen so much damage from so many different tornados. All of those affected by the drought and violent storms certainly need our continued prayers.

I hate to correct you, but since my mother felt the need to correct me it must be important. The tornado was not 2 and 1/2 miles wide. It was 2.6 miles wide.

No, you don't want to mess with Mama! Did they have big livestock losses? I am nearing retirement age now, but can remember a horrible March blizzard in S.D. as a youngster -- St. Patrick's day, I think. No buildings were destroyed, as they would be in a twister, but I remember the stock losses. We were buried in our single story house for 3 days before we got dug out, but there was that (thank God) basement. It took my dad 8 hours to drive 60 miles to us, following the last snow plow that plowed the highway for a couple of days. Friends, about 15 miles out from our very small town . . . it took about 5 days to get to them, and they got out of the house through a second story window. But, getting to them . . . . there were miles and miles of cattle, on their feet, frozen to the ground by their heads from the moisture in their breath. It was horrible.