I'm a European immigrant to the U.S., and America is different, even when it doesn't realize how different it is. Yes, it's kindness, and compassion, and generosity, not just for neighbors, but for people in other cities, states etc., but it's more than that. It's also an unbounded sense of optimism. A quarter of our town got destroyed, both our elementary schools? OK, so we'll build stronger homes, shelters for the schools and hospitals, and improve our early warning systems and tracking devices. We won't let even mother nature keep us down. This is our town, our land, and here we stand.
As a permanent Oklahoman, this is truth. I’ve seen multiple tornadoes in my life and luckily never had any personal loss. I would not hesitate to help any one of my neighbors, family, friends, or anyone else torn through the ravage of Mother Natures deady outbursts.
Howdy!!! Welcome to the USA!!! Where did you come here from? Sorry…you don’t have to answer that. We Americans are nosy by nature. 🫂 unlike what most people not from America think, we welcome people from other countries to our country…that are here legally. 👋👋👋👋 (waving hello) And what a kind thing to say about us!!! Greetings and Love from Texas!!! ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙
I am the young teenager talking in this documentary! I just want to say thank you for your review! It’s emotional to look back and hear the stories during this time. I’m happy to report that we are a strong town and have built back better and stronger! MooreStrong!
God Bless you Jenna and everyone in your great town. You're a very brave young lady to speak about the horror you all endured with such composure. I can only imagine what your wonderful Dad was feeling during his sole purpose of getting to you. I'm shook from just watching this...Wow! Much Love from Ireland ☘ 🕊🕯
I live in Eastern Oklahoma and my husband was working on a drilling rig just outside of Moore. He said as they drove through Moore just after the storm, they passed a department store that was destroyed but they saw a rack of ties standing perfectly in place. These storms are indescribable.
My daughter was in Biarwood when that tornado hit her school. She survived and our house was damaged but we are ok. The Moore Schools passed a bond after that tornado to place tornado shelters in every school. All Moore schools have a shelter now. My daughter still has trauma and doesn't like thunderstorms at all now and she is now 18 years old. She remembers looking up as the tornado passed over her and says she remembers seeing the inside of the tornado and she said she was praying to god to not let her die. May 20, 2013 holds a very trying time for me and my family. I just give all the thanks and glory to God for protecting my daughter and my family that day. Also after the Plaza Towers school was rebuilt each child killed in the tornado had a memorial in front of the school to always remember them.
I’m a retired teacher. Years ago we had a tornado near us and I had to shelter with my students in a hallway. I kept thinking that here we were in a brand new school and there wasn’t a tornado shelter built into it. It’s the height of stupidity. I’m so sorry that your daughter had to go through that.
To answer Carol’s question about storm shelters in school; “Authorities also made changes for schools. As of 2021, all new schools built in Oklahoma are required to have storm shelters. In 2015, the Moore community passed a bond issue to put storm shelters in every school. Now, all but one in Moore Public Schools has a working storm shelter.” KOCO TV May, 19, 2023
That's so good to find out. Moore has done such an amazing job of rebuilding and I'm glad to know the students will be safe. I'd love to see laws in all of the states in tornado alley that students have to have storm shelters available.
@@kateg7298 The majority of the stores, all of the schools and government facilities shut down(like snow days) on days where the Storm Prediction Center has the day listed as a PDS(Particularly Dangerous Situation) High Risk Day in Oklahoma. I was there storm chasing about five years ago on a PDS High Risk Day and the city was an absolute ghost town during the day. It was oddly creepy, but interesting. The only places open were bars and the such.
Yes, I worked at a more rural school, and we had a tornado warning about 3 years ago. We all went to the cafeteria. It is all concrete block with no windows and solid metal doors that lock. Goofy parents came to the school to pick up their kids and were banging on the doors!!! No one was allowed to open the doors or release any students until the warning was canceled!!! "I want my kid so I can drive him in a car into a tornado and hide in my trailer house!!!"
An important note to this Oklahoma state law requires that all storm shelters and homes with basements are registered with the State for the sole purpose of making recovery fast .
@@kateg7298 it was only possible because of everyone all around the nation/world who came and helped us. It helped so much. The donations, food, water, clothes. Neighbors letting us stay with them till we could get a place. Truly beautiful.
Americans are like family. We are at each other throats until something bad happens to one of us, then everyone forgets and help each other. Few places have such kind and helpful people. God bless America and all my fellow citizens.
It's very short lived. No one cares until it's a "me too" situation and suddenly they give a shit until they get over it. Then they go back to being assholes.
@terryhickman7929 you may not like what he said, but he is 100% correct.... unfortunately. People (media and politicians) make so much more money if they can make it where there's 2 sides fighting against each other vs. society is united for a single cause, or idea. There's a reason why the #1 spot for all of the political "news" type of networks usually switches depending on whose in the White House. You can bet that somewhere deep inside the boardrooms of the CNN, MSNBC (or whatever the initials are), or CBS are all privately hoping Trump wins in 2024. Just as Fox News is secretly hoping Biden wins in 2024. The simple reason f9r this is because an individuals greed is so much of a bigger motivator than a person's beliefs ever could be!
My daughter's best friend was 1 of the 7 children that passed away at Plaza Elementary that day!!! Thank goodness my baby was at home sick which is why she's still here with me!! R.I.P. to those 7 babies who passed and their families
@@kateg7298 thank you!! My babies little heart still hurts to this day!! There's nothing ever in time that's more heartbreaking than when babies don't get the chance to enjoy more than a couple years or less of life!! It just tears me apart
@@Rls_0523 I was in Fort Supply at a drug rehab center trying to kick a horrible habit during that tornado!! Let me explain absolute emotional pain to you!! My ex-wife (daughters mother) called me the next day and told me no less than 30 times how my daughter almost died because I wasn't there!! Like WTF was I going to be able to do differently than she did!!! That conversation 100% destroyed me inside through my heart
I can’t imagine losing my best friend in a tornado at that age, my sincerest hopes your daughter is doing well. And if memory serves correctly, congratulations to her (and you as the parent haha) on graduating high school last(?) year, assuming she was in the same grade. The age of the Plaza Towers victims always stuck in my memory since they’re only a year older than my baby sister.
Recky, FYI, the 400kph is how fast the tornado is spinning, not how fast it is moving on the ground. Mother Nature can be beautiful and terrifying all at the same time.
Carol, you did so well. This is so difficult for everyone, especially you who are not used to our troubles. Americans are tough, but still....it hurts.
@@patrickgeary7815I wholeheartedly agree. I'm from Homestead, FL. Hurricane Andrew leveled us for miles. After the initial shock of seeing what we had to work with, the community and state came together. It was horrific.
I remember being so afraid that day. It was the most frightening thing. It came very close to my house. The greatest thing was that the next morning a tiny kitten showed up on our back porch. He’s sitting here with me now 🌪️😻
I watched this live. I didn't realize my son, who was 8 at the time, was behind me watching also. When they were talking about the school my son startled me saying "Mom, there has to be something we can do". He sat and cried with me. After this he was set on inventing something to stop a tornado. His little heart was in the right place. I explained to him that you can't stop mother nature. He came up with some ideas that were actually smart for an 8 year old.❤
@@y00t00b3r may not be the best idea. Lol He had a couple ideas. One was to shoot something into the tornado that would spin the opposite direction. The other was to shoot something with cold air into it or the clouds above it. He thought if you disrupted the temperature it may dissolve it.
When the news said where that the tornado was headed, I got upset and cried. It was headed to my oldest sons house. Thank God I had talked him into putting in an underground shelter.
Carol I'm a 52 year old 101st airborne, Desert storm vet and I cried with you and Recky you stone cold bro I bet your daddy told you real men don't cry. He was wrong
I live about 90 minutes from Moore and Joplin. Been a while since I've watched these videos. Cried right along with you.❤ You don't know how strong you are until you have to be strong.
Carol bless your heart honey. You react the same way most of us do when we watch these tornadoes. They are devastating. It's hard to watch and very emotional. ❤️ You two are so sweet and kind. Love watching your videos.
I just experienced a tornado in Arkansas. My house was damaged. The neighbor's house had the side ripped off. Their neighbor had the top and the side of their house destroyed. I've lived in Arkansas my entire life. I've been around tornados my entire life, but they have always been miles away. I could go outside and watch them roll past. I never imagined I would be THAT close to a tornado. I'm very fortunate, as it could have been so much worse.
Much love from Texas. I was watching this year’s spring severe weather very closely due to going back to visit my folks in North Texas, I remember watching live as places in Arkansas I have visited before experienced tornadoes and hoping everyone up there was doing alright. NTX also experienced bad tornadoes this season and I saw some of the damage when I went out to donate supplies- definitely the worst tornado damage I’ve seen in person, even considering I’ve been in/extremely close to two tornadoes in my life. Luckily both of those were only EF1; one in Texas when I was a kid that took out our chimney, our whole backyard, and gave us a ton of water damage, and one this summer visiting my fiancé’s family in Iowa that luckily only caused tree damage and power outages at our location. Sounds like the damage in your area was closer to the damage I saw in Texas this spring than what I have personally experienced, I hope everything is going smoothly with repairs and rebuilding and I hope no one lost their lives in the tornado.
Fellow Arkansan here, and was in a super similar situation around the same time you were (damaged house and badly beaten neighborhood) so glad we were both fortunate enough to keep our homes and lives
43:49 I wasn't going to leave you by yourself to watch this the first time, so I stayed, but Moore might be as hard as it gets to watch. That sensitivity you experienced while watching this is what enables us to immediately go into action to help our neighbors at times like these. We need it, so don't feel embarrassed about it. Certainly, no one is going to judge you harshly for having a heart. This is the 4th or 5th time I've watched it and I still used 4 tissues. I agree with Recky, normally I don't like ads, but for things like this, they do release the stress.
When I was a little boy in Connecticut where tornados are virtually nonexistent we had a whole course in second grade on tornado safety. One of the reasons for this is probably because against all odds, in 1989 when I was only 2 years old we had a tornado outbreak and one of the tornados was an F4. Rare. But happens.
I've been in living in Oklahoma now for about 11 years and I'm happy to see that technology has come further to helping even common folk such as myself to not only understand these patterns but to watch and catch them in real time in radars. I know they say to not go out during these storms but because of the technology I'm able to at least predict a general direction and I always give myself 30 minutes to find shelter or an underground parking lot.
My niece lost her home in this one. Thank goodness she was at work at the time. Lives in Arizona now. Thanks for the good wishes, this is just life here. 🤗
@@HalkerVeil Yes as Long as You have Coverage. Most do in Tornado Alley or Just in the South in General. You can not describe the fear felt by A tornado.
@@HalkerVeilI've heard about something like that. I'm not sure if it exists everywhere. I don't live in tornado alley or anywhere especially prone to natural disasters but my sister lost her house because some lowlife set it on fire and she got some kind of payment for it.
I have a friend that is from Oklahoma and as a baby of like a yr old, a tornado hit and it picked him up and set him down a mile from his house at a gas station. Only had scratches...God was with him that day.
I am a 64 year old woman who was raised in Erick Oklahoma. The schools in that little town did have a storm shelter that could handle all the kids in school, high school as well as primary school kids. We did rehearsals every year so everyone knew how to get in as quick as possible!
@tonihelm1900 Question, so I understand: why do people want to live in states that have tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes, etc.? Why go thru the chance of this every year? I've never lived in a tornado/hurricane state, so please excuse me if my question sounds assertive. I just want to learn this thought process. Is their job so good, that they won't move? Is life so good that they can't find it in any other state? I watch the hurricanes in Florida every year on the news, and they even call it their "hurricane season", and "will this one coming be bigger than last year's?". Why on earth live like that?
@@MeredithMinsky so as perspective, first many people who live here grew up here, most from the rail roads, native tribes from the trail of tears, or oil workers/ natural gas and so on. cost of living in Washington state where I grew up is insane, that cost of living had us paying 2300 a month for a 2 bed 1 bath apartment with low income assistance. down here when I first moved here my rent was 890 a month for a 3 bedroom 2 bath Trailer home. My kids go to better schools here, the work here is better, the cost of living before the mass inflation was great, the mass inflation hurts but if anything makes it impossible to move anywhere else now. I would not live anywhere else ever again though unless I retire in Alaska or Russia. my Wife is dying and I plan to raise my kids the rest of the way here. I find when you live on the edge it becomes addicting as well. It is common for Okahomans to go outside and watch from their porches, we only get serious when the sirens start going but we have every screen in the home tuned to the weather at that point. further keep in mind that the chances of getting killed by a tornado in America are quite low you have a better chance of falling and dying in your shower than from a Tornado statistically. there are good and bad things that come from it. however this constant threat means that every year we come together as a community and that is by far the most addicting thing. I have seen my neighbors more in tornado season than any other time in the year. further Tornados happen in every state in the US with some having it more frequently and worse than others. California and Washington state have both had EF0 and EF1 and rarely but had EF2 tornados the east coast has had EF4 and EF5s in places you'd not expect. This is just apart of life and moving somewhere else has its own draw backs. Where I grew up flooding happened every year whole valleys and towns, in the case of Oso the whole town was wiped away by a massive land slide in the blink of an eye. Life isn't safe, we at least know the risks here.
@@aaronlayes4485 Thank you for teaching me all of this. Now I understand what's behind it all; the thinking, the mindset. Until you explained this, it has been a mystery to me. I've always lived in earthquake areas, so I'm not exactly one to talk. People have asked me why I would live in such areas, and it's basically because I was born, raised, lived my whole life in earthquake areas. I'm used to it by now. Are they scary, yes. I think the situation your state is in, is that I don't like rain, wind, cold weather, so hurricanes/tornadoes/cyclones, etc. are something I can't wrap my head around happening year after year. Thank you for replying to my question. I've learned something new today. I finally got a truthful answer to this burning question that I've had for years. I appreciate this.
@MeredithMinsky hey no worries and I am familiar with the earth quakes we shared a fault with Cali and had some bad ones in the 90s first roller of my life was the second scariest thing I've lived through but they're also over within a couple min generally speaking. I miss my home but it's just not a place I can afford to live anymore. I was priced out a decade ago. On top of that the politicians made it near impossible to defend myself and passed laws that protected my attacker. I could not for the life of me understand why I had to be arrested for defending myself in my own home despite nearly dying from it.
@MeredithMinsky places all over the country/world have dangers and weather phenomena. Some have high crime, and high numbers of traffic accidents from insane traffic. I have lived in both Texas and Oklahoma. My family is here, my house is here, my job is here. I was able to buy my house and paid off a 30 yr mortgage in 15 yrs. My property taxes are only $300/yr. Even if I wanted to move back to Texas, I couldn't afford rents, hoa, or a mortgage payment there. Property taxes in Texas are insane. My town is a smaller town, but has 2 hospitals, a state university, a beautiful downtown and nature activities. Actually, I've had more weather damage from ice than winds or tornados.
I lived about 20 miles north of Moore when this happened. I remember well watching much of this footage live as it was happening. That night we had an army of Oklahomans aiding in search and rescue. Oklahoma army national guard as well as off duty medical professionals, police, and fire from all over the state came to help. By the mourning of the next day we had volunteers from surrounding states pouring it. A tent city was erected to care for the volunteers. Restaurants and grocery stores were donating food and cooking meals for those working. Thousands of line crews from all over the country worked for days to restore power in near 100 degree heat. As awe inspiring as that act of nature may have been, the recovery effort from so many thousands and thousands of people was even more amazing. There we so many that some had to be turned away. He was right when he said "We take care of each other here". And if that is not enough then our neighbors in Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, come to help.
It's the pioneer spirit. Neighbor helping neighbor. Tornadoes are just phenomenen we in tornado alley are used to. They have recorded a tornado in all 50 states.
I think it is a part of the rural settlement culture, you help your neighbor because you may need their help, on top of it just being the right thing to do.
I am from Texas, we are a neighboring state to Oklahoma and have seen our share of tornado devastation as well, however, Moore has been affected way more than any city should be. I have seen videos of both the 1999 and the 2013 storms and my response was much like yours. Watching this again was no easier than the 1st time and brought me to tears. Thinking about how all of those victims both young and old spent their last moments on this Earth in sheer terror just devastates my soul. My neighbors in Oklahoma are cut from some pretty tough and caring cloth though and immediately went about helping each other. I pray that Moore never has to see this again, they have suffered too much.
I am a transplant from Washington State. I have already seen the compassion of the people here in Oklahoma, and the True grit and determination of people in even the neighboring states like Texas and others. It is incredible. Something Washington doesn't have and never will. I like to think that although I was raised in Washington, I was born in Nebraska corn fed, and I too share that same sentiment of community and we stand together and stay strong. I really feel like hell with where I was raised, I came HOME to the proper region I need to be. These are my people. 💯❤️
Once in the early 70s my aunt was headed to church down the expressway. A tornado picked her car up and put it back down on the other side of the road going the opposite direction without any damage or injuries
I was in a tornado once, when I was 5. I'm 45 now, and it still haunts me. I hate tornadoes. The sound is incredible. I live in Georgia, US, so we don't get them too much, but whenever that siren goes off, I lose it.
Yeah a smaller one like F2 I think at grandparents’ farm WI-IA border, and u could see the path up and down the 500 ft bluffs where it twisted all the trees. Took the barn roof, machine shed, lots of old trees. But the house was ok, literally 20 ft from the shed and it was ok. Never forgot that as a 11 yr old.
I saw a little F1 in Wisconsin on a camping trip. I was 11. Haunts me too. I never want to see a real one again. I went and saw Twisters and the sound of the tornado sirens sent a chill down my spine sitting comfortably in the theater.
I just wanted to say this because I’ve heard you say it a couple times when they say a tornado for example it’s like a F5 and it’s going up to 200 something miles an hour they’re talking about the inside circulation of the tornado not how fast it’s moving on the ground. They will say It is traveling at so-and-so miles per hour for the speed it is traveling 😊 just wanted to put that out there for educational purposes. Love the videos you guys! 😅
I live in "Tornado Alley" - in Wichita, Kansas. The news these days often make me ashamed of my fellow Americans, but I see our true spirit in the aftermath of these disasters. This makes me proud and grateful to be an American! ❤
I am also I Wichita, we have seen our fair share of tornados over the last few years. That very long track one we had 10 years or so ago that was on the ground around 200 miles, that thing was following us as we left town. It followed us almost clear to Kansas city
in 1985 we had a tornado pass by nine miles away. We had hail stones the size of golf balls hit us. I spent the following 3 weeks delivering food to people out there, using chainsaws to clear roads and rescue people trapped in their homes. There were roughly 200 of us volunteers involved in the cleanup. We worked from 7am until dark 7 days a week. I hosted a couple that drove 4 hours to come help
I live in Oklahoma, but I've never been through a tornado. Still, tornado warnings are definitely not uncommon. There is a period of time in the spring and later in the fall when tornado activity is heightened, but most of the year Oklahoma has pretty typical weather. I understand when Carol says that she would never live here because of the tornadoes, but most parts of the U.S. have some sort of weather phenomena to deal with. On the coasts, hurricanes. In the north, extreme cold and winter storms, even ice storms that can knock power out for days and even weeks. Some parts of the U.S. are subject to frequent devastating flooding. Wherever you go, there is some concerning phenomena. But, most of the time, it's just simply a beautiful country to live in! Thank you for watching and for your concern! I love watching your reaction videos and your unboxing videos!
Proud Oklahoman here. I remember this day like it was yesterday. What happened at Plaza Towers hit me the most; even as it was developing. I grew up here and still live here... Love it. Thank you for covering this. Great vid.
A few days after the tornado, my sister's church sent a caravan of trucks loaded with food and water and clothes and anything that would fit. They took tools and building supplies and pledged two weeks of about 30 people to work, from cooking for those who needed it, as well as the work crews, and then those who were able who worked side by side the people or Moore. This church is in Pennsylvania so it was no small task.
Thank your sister and her church for me please. The food and supplies were a major help. I don’t know what I and the others around us would have done. The entire area that was effected was under lock down no one who did not live there could get in and with all the debris it was impossible to get out. Those who sent food and clothes helped to make sure people didn’t starve. So thank you and god bless.
@@jelm8957 I will definitely pass that along. I'm sure it will mean a lot after all this time. It's a very mission-minded church, anxious to serve and heal hurts of all kinds whenever possible. And they put their hands to work, too, not just sending money (although that is always welcome, I know) but they love coming alongside those who have such incredible needs.
To answer the question "why Oklahoma doesn't have basements/shelters?" We do have underground shelters in some areas and our land is made up with red clay and other materials that shift and cannot keep the form of a shelter for long lengths of time. Some people have shelters built inside their garages. Mine is made up with four walls of 18 inches of concrete that is attached to my brick house. Inside it's 8 by 8 feet. We have emergency water, food, documents, and extra clothing just in case!
I’ve wondered about that, I’d heard some types of land are unsuitable for basements so I hoped there was some other option. I’m so glad you have something built to protect you!
To follow up on this: many parts of Oklahoma have very high water tables...as high as 3 and a half feet (0.9-1 meter) below the surface. The expense of constantly keeping the foundation waterproofed, compounded with the unstable clay soil makes basements impractical in 80-90% of buildings and homes.
@@damienb6184 Arkansas is considered part of Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley. To my knowledge most of Arkansas is not compatible with underground shelters due to the type of soil. My large multi building apartment complex offers no storm shelters though one semi minor perk is that one of the county/city tornado sirens is permanently parked across the street. It's a good back up in case there are issues with the radio WX alert warning system and cell phones.
Bravo, prepare for the worst, hope for the best! So many sheeple just don't have a clue, about surviving anything tougher than an ingrown toenail!..SMMFH..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸👋🤠
Halfway, I am here. I remember this tornado vividly. This one and 1999. This year, 2024, we had several large tornadoes hit various parts of Oklahoma. It takes a special kind of person to keep living here. Okie built, okie strong!
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We don't wallow in self pity we just take care of our own
So many memories of this. I lived on the Northern part of Oklahoma City and was watching this unfold and remembering when my uncle survived the May 3rd tornado in Del City. He had a two story house the only thing left was his stairway and two walls of the kitchen. His wife and youngest son and himself were in the closet under the stairs it took both him and his son to hold the door shut.
You definitely do get mesmerized. Here in southern New Jersey I watched a tornado approach and pass over my house a few years ago. It took the roof right off my 3 car garage like it was tissue paper. Every instinct told me to grab my dogs and get in the basement but I couldn't move,,except to run from the back windows to the front ones to watch it pass right over.....I was in absolute awe.......it touched down 2 miles from my house,took 5 homes and 3 lives. I dodged a bullet that day🌪 Edit: halfway marker,,I'm still here!
OMG I'm so glad it only took your garage roof. A lot of people are so stunned that they stand and watch a tornado. I've been through a few and my husband hasn't The last tornado that came through, he was right up against our French doors looking at the twister. I grabbed the back of his shirt and yelled at him to get down. Those windows went within about 20 seconds.
@kateg7298 we don't get very bad ones here in Jersey,,but my son lives in Iowa. Last month him,his 2 boys and pregnant wife spent hours in their basement safe spot on 3 different nights. I obsessively watch his weather so I can tell him to put on boots,helmets on the boys,put a sports whistle around his neck and get in the basement,,it makes me feel like I have a little control lol...... You're a smart woman making your husband get away from the windows~!! Y'all got so lucky. My hands were shaking when I realized how close I was to being a direct hit! Stay safe💛
There was an F3 in Maryland a few weeks ago. I was born in Connecticut and when I was 2 we had tornados and one was an F4 rating so nothing is impossible.
You two have such kind hearts. I didn't tear up until Carol said she needed a break. ❤ Considering the devastation from this tornado, Moore was blessed in that more people didn't lose their life.
To help you understand what Recky means when he says that people come from other states ... I am a member of MCC (mennonite Central Committee) which has under its control the "Mennonite Disaster Service". the service help contractors (builders/construction) who want to go help get there. We help with money for Food, Lodging, places to stay, whatever is needed. But the BIG HELP comes when our own mennonite architects, electricians, heating and air, and plumbers go to help. They bring along all their certifications and things so power can get turned back on or the gas. the architects are on the jobsite so no running to find whoever to see if things are right or strong enough because he's there on site as it were. Usually to there are enough that go help that take their own camper trailers that everyone that helps (rescuer's) has somewhere to sleep. Also everything we do to help is free of charge.
I live in Wisconsin where we have a large but scattered Amish population. We get an occasional tornado and also some years we get bad floods. One of our worst tornadoes was in Barneveld (southern part of the state between Madison and the Illinois state line and great farm country) which hit in the middle of the night. Before the sun rose, there already were Amish farmers with their draft horses and tackle starting to remove debris and the women were there with food, coffee, and blankets. The horses could get places the big equipment couldn't so they cleared the way.
I had cousins in Moore. After the 2013 tornado, one cousin said that was enough. She moved out! I'm in Texas. Our town has been hit a few times. I have a shelter. It went in after we were hit again in 1995. Carol, we love you and your precious big heart! Thank you for loving us, as much as we love ya'll! ❤
Carol&Recky, I watched your reaction, and at the halfway mark, i commented "I'm here", per your request. It is interesting you choose that, because it sums up what happens to the people after a tragedy like this occurs. I live in the midwest, and we know tomorrow isn't promised. But when something like this happens, people in Americans kick into gear and say "I'm here...." Corperations send semi trucks with washers and driers so those who lost everything can do laundry free), citizens send clothes, food and bottled water as well as other items that are needed for personal care. Often our local stores act as staging for that, so you can buy, say a case of water, and have it loaded on a truck that will be leaving the next day. People go to help clean up, some voulenteer to help rebuild. Overwhelmingly, the message is "I'm here.... (and you are not alone.)"
Thank you so much for caring, while watching this. I'm an American and have never seen a tornado but I know people who have been affected by them. It's really horrible. I'm hearing lately that it's not just America anymore. Germany and Czechia have had a few. China and Brazil, too. Thankfully, they are rare. (And most tornadoes are not this big, strong, and long. Most are on the ground only a few minutes. Many start in open fields or countryside.) My heart goes out to all people affected by extreme weather or nature.
I love your duo reactions 😊 Carol asked about schools having storm shelters… Most new schools in Kansas (where I live) are built with safe rooms inside that can withstand 250-mph winds. Older schools aren’t built to stand up to significant winds. I can remember tornado drills as a kid where teachers lined us up in the hallway with our hands over our heads. I’m proud of Carol for wanting to learn about severe weather!
Thank you both for emphatically living through that for understanding what we really do live through in Tornado Alley. It is a whole other level of ALL the emotions at once when a tornado is right above you.
These tornadoes went through an area where the schools were built decades before the tornado so they didn't have shelters. After the event they did put shelters in all of the Moore schools and the entire state is trying to get shelters in the schools.
All of my primary schools in Oklahoma had tornado shelters during the 70's and 80's. I'm not sure why any school was ever built here without a tornado shelter.
After the second Moore tornado in 2013, my very small but extremely well funded school built a shelter. After school hours, they generously open it to the community.
I was a teacher during this. Our school was in the path but the tornado made a hard right turn and missed us. I was lying on top of my students and there were so many children crying and so scared. The day before this storm my house had been barely missed by an EF-4 tornado in a different town. I had coworkers that actually lost their homes in this storm. After work every day I went into the affected areas in Moore and helped in the clean up effort. Every night got home and spent an hour pulling fiberglass out of my skin and just was so thankful I still had my home. People who had lost everything were setting up grills and cooking food for the volunteers and bringing us waters etc. Oklahomans are just built different. Thank you for covering this event!! ❤
I live in Moore Ok. My daughters high school was hit (Westmoore) in 1999, and the homes West of the school and apartments East of the school were flattened. I live within a mile of the school, and we were fortunately not directly hit, but were in our storm cellar, and it really sounds like a train. The National Guard actually blocked off our whole square mile to prevent looting, and to limit access to the area. The footage you watched was a several years later. My horse Vet knew the storm hit a horse facility on 134th and South Western. He traveled from Eastern Moore to the facility and had to start putting down horses. He ran out of the drugs to put them down. The Facility had been flattened, and some of the horses were in stalls with no escape. He said it was the worst thing he had ever seen in his career. Oklahoma is a wonderful place to live, and the people are unmatched.
Carol, you are awesome to watch these videos. Your interest in the trials that others endure in a country very different from Sweden is touching. You and Recky are truly beautiful souls.
Carol, sweetheart I have seen so many tornado videos to be able to learn more and even though I know what's coming, I still cry and cry for all the pain and loss everyone has gone through.
I’m a Okie in northeast Oklahoma. My husband & I are stationary storm spotters. We’ve seen many tornadoes. We report to national weather service (NWS). We just few weeks ago witnessed a devastating tornado in Claremore, Oklahoma. Spotters or not we know when to hit the storm cellar. Fortunately we only had minor damage but just 1/2 mile away was hit hard. My advice is take free safety classes & especially stay calm. Panic can be very deadly ❤
I live in Norman just a few miles south of Moore. We start preparing for tornado season in March with May being the busiest month, sometimes 2 or 3 nights a week spent taking shelter. The systems almost always start in mid to late afternoon and can last several hours. Sirens have gone off at my house at 11:30 pm before. Tornado season usually ends in mid June when the weather systems stabilize and it’s only hot outside. There is another period in late September and October when summer turns to fall that weather conditions can produce tornadoes as well. It’s stressful. I think we’ve taken shelter 6 times so far by end of may this year.
I’m proud of you Carol. This is very hard to watch and hear of the losses. It reminds us that life is so dear and to rejoice in each other and each day that we are granted on this earth.
I love how Moa's there to comfort you while watching this, because these are hard to watch. God Bless all the soles lost & injured that day❤😭P.S. I think if you watch another one of these. You should watch the Hattiesburg, Mississippi episode or Henryville, Indiana episode.
I have been through many, many tornadoes in my 58 yrs, luckily only a couple of EF 4 and EF 5. If you are in the direct path of one of the worst ones, it is pretty terrifying. I have lost family and friends in them, and luckily, we haven't had either an EF 4 or EF 5 in our area in almost 14 yrs. Also, I didn't know you had a channel with your wife. She's lovely and her voice is also lovely.
I live in Oklahoma. I remember that night. My brother lived near the Moore area. It was a night of horror and worry. Thankfully God kept my brother and his family safe.
I'm from Oklahoma City. This was brutal. People from the shops next door came to shelter in the refrigerator at the pizza place where I worked. Tornado destroyed the neighborhood just behind the restaurant. Still here
I remember this tornado and how horribly scary this day was. I live 3 miles south of Moore and we immediately went to offer any help we could- me, my 10yr old and my two littles (2 & 3yrs old at the time) both in a wagon behnd me. We just needed to help do something, anything we could... There was a line a half a mile long of people doing the same thing we were doing- taking blankets, water bottles, flashlights, food, clothing, anything you could imagine needing at a time like that... The thing about Oklahomans is that we can't stand by and watch a tragedy unfold without trying to make things better or offer a helping hand to anyone whose life is affected by it. I love that about my people💜 I watched the entire video, btw. Much love to Carol for her empzthy💜💜💜
43:46 I made it to the end. I was born in Oklahoma and seeing this makes me proud to be born Oklahoman. I live in Arkansas and have been for 32 years now.
💗To Carol for sticking with the video - even though it's very hard to watch. We take what disasters do to others very personally in this country. Hurricane Katrina Devastated much of the gulf coast with people stranded on top of their homes, and in New Orleans with no food, water and much of their lives destroyed. From 1/2 way across the country, I know someone who hired a Semi truck driver to drive down to the area and the entire community went to the stores to buy items that those people could need and loaded that semi to the brim with things that they could use to help them in some way. ( IDK if there is a video on youtube that really covers the scale of that disaster. If there is, It's one I would watch if learning about our disasters and how it affects us) . It's great to see a people come together as we do when something bad happens. If we could do that every day, we'd be unstoppable in everything we do.
If you are interested, there's a book called Five Days At Memorial that's a fascinating snapshot of what happened at one of the hospitals in Katrina's path. So good. So devastating.
The most terrifying thing is sitting there hoping it misses you hope it misses your family and friends then...hearing it coming, getting closer and closer and closer, hearing the roar, and wind get stronger, feeling the earth shaking and vibrating, knowing its speeding toward you with incredible force and strength. Then hearing it hit you. Hearing the stuff crashing all around you. Then stepping out and seeing everything different. Buildings gone, trees gone, road signs, landmarks everything. You dont even know where you are or how to get anywhere. It is something you will never forget.
This is gonna be a tough one. That tornado is up against 2 others for being the strongest/fastest tornadoes ever recorded!!! But with all F5s, an interior room on the lowest level of your house with no windows isn't gonna cut it!! You have to be in a basement or storm cellar to live!!!
My son worked in Moore when the tornado came through. Fortunately, his building was on the tail end of it, sustaining minor damage. But he said they could feel the ground rumbling when it came through. So scary!
A home with a true underground basement is definitely a plus here in the metro ATL. I have lived through a few. Driven through a couple. A lot of higher end homes are being built with reinforced concrete storm bunkers that double as the basement bathroom. Metal door with reinforced hardware. A bunch of prepper types also keep an emergency ration/essential’s pack in there as well, in case they get buried by debris. Our home has a full finished basement, it’s about 75% underground with one corner completely below ground. In that corner is a closet that I’ve reinforced with 8cm of layered plywood and 3mm steel plate. Not sure my 83 year old mom could get down the stairs anymore, but I’m sure a storm would motivate her someway.
Im from Oklahoma and I was about 5 houses down from Briarwood Elementary. I can’t hardly watch this without crying from the beginning. Because I know and will never forget.
As a person who lives in "Tornado Alley" , I have seen 6 tornados in my life... about 1 per decade. In 2008, and EF5 tornado went about 60 miles north of me. I went up to help with the clean-up. The 1.5 mile wide tornado was on the ground for about 46 miles. Destroyed one town and many properties. A month later, our river in my hometown flooded to 2 miles wide causing just as much damage. I helped with that clean-up also. Big year for volunteering in this area. Some schools don't have shelters because the rground water level is so high if they build an undergroud shelter, it will flood. The United States as a whole experiences more tornadoes than any other country, with about 75% of the world's tornadoes occurring there.
From an oklahoman,I love you both and thank you for the kind words about my fellow oklahomans, we saw Barnsdall Oklahoma after it was it by an F4 on May 6th 2024,it was horrible
I grew up 30 miles south of Moore it's a tough place to live but you get used to it. You expect it but then again you are never truly prepared for it when it hits your area.
Yup... I grew up in Kansas and saw my first dead body at 13 years old doing search and rescue after a tornado. Carol and I have the same reaction to videos like this. I've seen this one a few times and cry every time. I remember driving through Moore a year later and could still see the path. I helped rebuild Greensburg, Kansas after their tornado and you can still see remnants of damage in old trees
That's terrifying to watch, a tornado can level an entire town. My family and myself have survived a number of bad hurricanes here in SW Florida with terrible destruction, but a Tornado is a different beast altogether.
This last hurricane that came through Texas brought storms to Louisiana and we had 62 separate tornado warnings in my area. I never realized how wild the weather can be on this continent until I started watching folks like y'all. Schools typically don't need bunkers because the schools themselves are usually strong enough by themselves. My entire highschool was a nuclear bunker.
I'm a European immigrant to the U.S., and America is different, even when it doesn't realize how different it is. Yes, it's kindness, and compassion, and generosity, not just for neighbors, but for people in other cities, states etc., but it's more than that. It's also an unbounded sense of optimism. A quarter of our town got destroyed, both our elementary schools? OK, so we'll build stronger homes, shelters for the schools and hospitals, and improve our early warning systems and tracking devices. We won't let even mother nature keep us down. This is our town, our land, and here we stand.
The Indomitable American Spirit.
All my blood family is from Oklahoma. All my chosen family is from NW Alabama. From tornado alley to dixie Alley. 😂
@@crystalhamm31 Tornado Ally is slowly moving east. The number of tornados are increasing in places like Alabama.
As a permanent Oklahoman, this is truth. I’ve seen multiple tornadoes in my life and luckily never had any personal loss. I would not hesitate to help any one of my neighbors, family, friends, or anyone else torn through the ravage of Mother Natures deady outbursts.
Howdy!!! Welcome to the USA!!! Where did you come here from? Sorry…you don’t have to answer that. We Americans are nosy by nature. 🫂 unlike what most people not from America think, we welcome people from other countries to our country…that are here legally. 👋👋👋👋 (waving hello) And what a kind thing to say about us!!! Greetings and Love from Texas!!! ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙
I am the young teenager talking in this documentary! I just want to say thank you for your review! It’s emotional to look back and hear the stories during this time. I’m happy to report that we are a strong town and have built back better and stronger! MooreStrong!
So glad you survived. I can’t imagine an F5. You kicked ass!
God Bless you Jenna and everyone in your great town. You're a very brave young lady to speak about the horror you all endured with such composure. I can only imagine what your wonderful Dad was feeling during his sole purpose of getting to you. I'm shook from just watching this...Wow!
Much Love from Ireland ☘ 🕊🕯
I live in Eastern Oklahoma and my husband was working on a drilling rig just outside of Moore. He said as they drove through Moore just after the storm, they passed a department store that was destroyed but they saw a rack of ties standing perfectly in place. These storms are indescribable.
My daughter was in Biarwood when that tornado hit her school. She survived and our house was damaged but we are ok. The Moore Schools passed a bond after that tornado to place tornado shelters in every school. All Moore schools have a shelter now. My daughter still has trauma and doesn't like thunderstorms at all now and she is now 18 years old. She remembers looking up as the tornado passed over her and says she remembers seeing the inside of the tornado and she said she was praying to god to not let her die. May 20, 2013 holds a very trying time for me and my family. I just give all the thanks and glory to God for protecting my daughter and my family that day. Also after the Plaza Towers school was rebuilt each child killed in the tornado had a memorial in front of the school to always remember them.
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I still get chills driving by Briarwood and the other elementary school. 😢
I’m a retired teacher. Years ago we had a tornado near us and I had to shelter with my students in a hallway. I kept thinking that here we were in a brand new school and there wasn’t a tornado shelter built into it. It’s the height of stupidity. I’m so sorry that your daughter had to go through that.
Prayer works. Millions of us were watching the live reporting on this tornado & praying for everyone in its path.
To answer Carol’s question about storm shelters in school; “Authorities also made changes for schools. As of 2021, all new schools built in Oklahoma are required to have storm shelters. In 2015, the Moore community passed a bond issue to put storm shelters in every school. Now, all but one in Moore Public Schools has a working storm shelter.” KOCO TV May, 19, 2023
That's so good to find out. Moore has done such an amazing job of rebuilding and I'm glad to know the students will be safe. I'd love to see laws in all of the states in tornado alley that students have to have storm shelters available.
@@kateg7298 The majority of the stores, all of the schools and government facilities shut down(like snow days) on days where the Storm Prediction Center has the day listed as a PDS(Particularly Dangerous Situation) High Risk Day in Oklahoma. I was there storm chasing about five years ago on a PDS High Risk Day and the city was an absolute ghost town during the day. It was oddly creepy, but interesting. The only places open were bars and the such.
Yes, I worked at a more rural school, and we had a tornado warning about 3 years ago. We all went to the cafeteria. It is all concrete block with no windows and solid metal doors that lock.
Goofy parents came to the school to pick up their kids and were banging on the doors!!! No one was allowed to open the doors or release any students until the warning was canceled!!!
"I want my kid so I can drive him in a car into a tornado and hide in my trailer house!!!"
An important note to this Oklahoma state law requires that all storm shelters and homes with basements are registered with the State for the sole purpose of making recovery fast .
@@kateg7298 it was only possible because of everyone all around the nation/world who came and helped us. It helped so much. The donations, food, water, clothes. Neighbors letting us stay with them till we could get a place. Truly beautiful.
Americans are like family. We are at each other throats until something bad happens to one of us, then everyone forgets and help each other. Few places have such kind and helpful people. God bless America and all my fellow citizens.
It's very short lived. No one cares until it's a "me too" situation and suddenly they give a shit until they get over it. Then they go back to being assholes.
@@PaulHosey Way to shit in the punchbowl, PaulHosey.
@@terryhickman7929 I'm telling the truth and thanks for proving me right with your hostile response.
@terryhickman7929 you may not like what he said, but he is 100% correct.... unfortunately.
People (media and politicians) make so much more money if they can make it where there's 2 sides fighting against each other vs. society is united for a single cause, or idea.
There's a reason why the #1 spot for all of the political "news" type of networks usually switches depending on whose in the White House. You can bet that somewhere deep inside the boardrooms of the CNN, MSNBC (or whatever the initials are), or CBS are all privately hoping Trump wins in 2024. Just as Fox News is secretly hoping Biden wins in 2024.
The simple reason f9r this is because an individuals greed is so much of a bigger motivator than a person's beliefs ever could be!
@@PaulHosey Go see a therapist.
My daughter's best friend was 1 of the 7 children that passed away at Plaza Elementary that day!!! Thank goodness my baby was at home sick which is why she's still here with me!! R.I.P. to those 7 babies who passed and their families
I'm so sorry to hear that. Thank god your little girl was safe. It's heartbreaking that seven little ones were lost.
@@kateg7298 thank you!! My babies little heart still hurts to this day!! There's nothing ever in time that's more heartbreaking than when babies don't get the chance to enjoy more than a couple years or less of life!! It just tears me apart
@@Rls_0523 I was in Fort Supply at a drug rehab center trying to kick a horrible habit during that tornado!! Let me explain absolute emotional pain to you!! My ex-wife (daughters mother) called me the next day and told me no less than 30 times how my daughter almost died because I wasn't there!! Like WTF was I going to be able to do differently than she did!!! That conversation 100% destroyed me inside through my heart
@@Rls_0523That gives me chills. That takes courage and a lot of it. I'm glad that yall are ok.
I can’t imagine losing my best friend in a tornado at that age, my sincerest hopes your daughter is doing well. And if memory serves correctly, congratulations to her (and you as the parent haha) on graduating high school last(?) year, assuming she was in the same grade. The age of the Plaza Towers victims always stuck in my memory since they’re only a year older than my baby sister.
Recky, FYI, the 400kph is how fast the tornado is spinning, not how fast it is moving on the ground. Mother Nature can be beautiful and terrifying all at the same time.
Imagine a tornado moving that quick. Absolutely terrifying.
Carol, you did so well. This is so difficult for everyone, especially you who are not used to our troubles. Americans are tough, but still....it hurts.
you would both stand up and help, given the situation. It's not just Oklahomans, it's all of us
@@patrickgeary7815I wholeheartedly agree.
I'm from Homestead, FL.
Hurricane Andrew leveled us for miles.
After the initial shock of seeing what we had to work with, the community and state came together.
It was horrific.
No one is tough enough to witness a parent lose a child. No one.
For sure. I have seen this same episode probably three times now including today and I was crying like a baby here watching
I remember being so afraid that day. It was the most frightening thing. It came very close to my house. The greatest thing was that the next morning a tiny kitten showed up on our back porch. He’s sitting here with me now 🌪️😻
I watched this live. I didn't realize my son, who was 8 at the time, was behind me watching also. When they were talking about the school my son startled me saying "Mom, there has to be something we can do". He sat and cried with me. After this he was set on inventing something to stop a tornado. His little heart was in the right place. I explained to him that you can't stop mother nature. He came up with some ideas that were actually smart for an 8 year old.❤
Bless his heart! He is such a compassionate young man. He will be an awesome adult/father some day.
I was eight years old once, too. My idea involved nuclear weapons.
@@y00t00b3r may not be the best idea. Lol
He had a couple ideas. One was to shoot something into the tornado that would spin the opposite direction. The other was to shoot something with cold air into it or the clouds above it. He thought if you disrupted the temperature it may dissolve it.
@@reginaphalange30awww ❤
I am sobbing. I am a boy mom too, they really are the sweetest.
When the news said where that the tornado was headed, I got upset and cried. It was headed to my oldest sons house. Thank God I had talked him into putting in an underground shelter.
Thank you for watching these, Miss Carol. It gives remembrance to all the souls lost, Injured and traumatized by these. Thank you!
Its devastating ❤️ Thank you 🌹
@@reckyNcarol I felt so bad that it made you both tear up. Bless your hearts.
Carol I'm a 52 year old 101st airborne, Desert storm vet and I cried with you and Recky you stone cold bro I bet your daddy told you real men don't cry. He was wrong
Still here at 45 minute mark. Oklahoma proud and American strong 🇺🇸
As a first responder to this event and several others in this city it will be something I will never forget.
I live about 90 minutes from Moore and Joplin. Been a while since I've watched these videos. Cried right along with you.❤ You don't know how strong you are until you have to be strong.
I live in Midwest City and my brother was in the mall in Norman at the time.
The dad is an absolute legend, real life hero to his son and his friends
Carol bless your heart honey. You react the same way most of us do when we watch these tornadoes. They are devastating. It's hard to watch and very emotional. ❤️ You two are so sweet and kind. Love watching your videos.
Amen, well said
I just experienced a tornado in Arkansas. My house was damaged. The neighbor's house had the side ripped off. Their neighbor had the top and the side of their house destroyed.
I've lived in Arkansas my entire life. I've been around tornados my entire life, but they have always been miles away. I could go outside and watch them roll past. I never imagined I would be THAT close to a tornado. I'm very fortunate, as it could have been so much worse.
Much love from Texas. I was watching this year’s spring severe weather very closely due to going back to visit my folks in North Texas, I remember watching live as places in Arkansas I have visited before experienced tornadoes and hoping everyone up there was doing alright. NTX also experienced bad tornadoes this season and I saw some of the damage when I went out to donate supplies- definitely the worst tornado damage I’ve seen in person, even considering I’ve been in/extremely close to two tornadoes in my life. Luckily both of those were only EF1; one in Texas when I was a kid that took out our chimney, our whole backyard, and gave us a ton of water damage, and one this summer visiting my fiancé’s family in Iowa that luckily only caused tree damage and power outages at our location. Sounds like the damage in your area was closer to the damage I saw in Texas this spring than what I have personally experienced, I hope everything is going smoothly with repairs and rebuilding and I hope no one lost their lives in the tornado.
Fellow Arkansan here, and was in a super similar situation around the same time you were (damaged house and badly beaten neighborhood) so glad we were both fortunate enough to keep our homes and lives
43:49 I wasn't going to leave you by yourself to watch this the first time, so I stayed, but Moore might be as hard as it gets to watch. That sensitivity you experienced while watching this is what enables us to immediately go into action to help our neighbors at times like these. We need it, so don't feel embarrassed about it. Certainly, no one is going to judge you harshly for having a heart. This is the 4th or 5th time I've watched it and I still used 4 tissues. I agree with Recky, normally I don't like ads, but for things like this, they do release the stress.
Carol is correct. We have to learn about these disasters to see where we can do better next time and to honor those who lost their lives.
When I was a little boy in Connecticut where tornados are virtually nonexistent we had a whole course in second grade on tornado safety. One of the reasons for this is probably because against all odds, in 1989 when I was only 2 years old we had a tornado outbreak and one of the tornados was an F4. Rare. But happens.
I've been in living in Oklahoma now for about 11 years and I'm happy to see that technology has come further to helping even common folk such as myself to not only understand these patterns but to watch and catch them in real time in radars.
I know they say to not go out during these storms but because of the technology I'm able to at least predict a general direction and I always give myself 30 minutes to find shelter or an underground parking lot.
My niece lost her home in this one. Thank goodness she was at work at the time. Lives in Arizona now. Thanks for the good wishes, this is just life here. 🤗
Does insurance even pay out at all for this? Or do they see it as an act of god and go all religiosity to save themselves money?
@@HalkerVeil Yes as Long as You have Coverage. Most do in Tornado Alley or Just in the South in General.
You can not describe the fear felt by A tornado.
@@HalkerVeilI've heard about something like that. I'm not sure if it exists everywhere. I don't live in tornado alley or anywhere especially prone to natural disasters but my sister lost her house because some lowlife set it on fire and she got some kind of payment for it.
I have a friend that is from Oklahoma and as a baby of like a yr old, a tornado hit and it picked him up and set him down a mile from his house at a gas station. Only had scratches...God was with him that day.
I am a 64 year old woman who was raised in Erick Oklahoma. The schools in that little town did have a storm shelter that could handle all the kids in school, high school as well as primary school kids. We did rehearsals every year so everyone knew how to get in as quick as possible!
@tonihelm1900 Question, so I understand: why do people want to live in states that have tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes, etc.? Why go thru the chance of this every year? I've never lived in a tornado/hurricane state, so please excuse me if my question sounds assertive. I just want to learn this thought process. Is their job so good, that they won't move? Is life so good that they can't find it in any other state? I watch the hurricanes in Florida every year on the news, and they even call it their "hurricane season", and "will this one coming be bigger than last year's?". Why on earth live like that?
@@MeredithMinsky so as perspective, first many people who live here grew up here, most from the rail roads, native tribes from the trail of tears, or oil workers/ natural gas and so on. cost of living in Washington state where I grew up is insane, that cost of living had us paying 2300 a month for a 2 bed 1 bath apartment with low income assistance. down here when I first moved here my rent was 890 a month for a 3 bedroom 2 bath Trailer home. My kids go to better schools here, the work here is better, the cost of living before the mass inflation was great, the mass inflation hurts but if anything makes it impossible to move anywhere else now. I would not live anywhere else ever again though unless I retire in Alaska or Russia. my Wife is dying and I plan to raise my kids the rest of the way here. I find when you live on the edge it becomes addicting as well. It is common for Okahomans to go outside and watch from their porches, we only get serious when the sirens start going but we have every screen in the home tuned to the weather at that point. further keep in mind that the chances of getting killed by a tornado in America are quite low you have a better chance of falling and dying in your shower than from a Tornado statistically. there are good and bad things that come from it. however this constant threat means that every year we come together as a community and that is by far the most addicting thing. I have seen my neighbors more in tornado season than any other time in the year. further Tornados happen in every state in the US with some having it more frequently and worse than others. California and Washington state have both had EF0 and EF1 and rarely but had EF2 tornados the east coast has had EF4 and EF5s in places you'd not expect. This is just apart of life and moving somewhere else has its own draw backs. Where I grew up flooding happened every year whole valleys and towns, in the case of Oso the whole town was wiped away by a massive land slide in the blink of an eye. Life isn't safe, we at least know the risks here.
@@aaronlayes4485 Thank you for teaching me all of this. Now I understand what's behind it all; the thinking, the mindset. Until you explained this, it has been a mystery to me. I've always lived in earthquake areas, so I'm not exactly one to talk. People have asked me why I would live in such areas, and it's basically because I was born, raised, lived my whole life in earthquake areas. I'm used to it by now. Are they scary, yes. I think the situation your state is in, is that I don't like rain, wind, cold weather, so hurricanes/tornadoes/cyclones, etc. are something I can't wrap my head around happening year after year. Thank you for replying to my question. I've learned something new today. I finally got a truthful answer to this burning question that I've had for years. I appreciate this.
@MeredithMinsky hey no worries and I am familiar with the earth quakes we shared a fault with Cali and had some bad ones in the 90s first roller of my life was the second scariest thing I've lived through but they're also over within a couple min generally speaking. I miss my home but it's just not a place I can afford to live anymore. I was priced out a decade ago. On top of that the politicians made it near impossible to defend myself and passed laws that protected my attacker. I could not for the life of me understand why I had to be arrested for defending myself in my own home despite nearly dying from it.
@MeredithMinsky places all over the country/world have dangers and weather phenomena. Some have high crime, and high numbers of traffic accidents from insane traffic.
I have lived in both Texas and Oklahoma. My family is here, my house is here, my job is here. I was able to buy my house and paid off a 30 yr mortgage in 15 yrs. My property taxes are only $300/yr.
Even if I wanted to move back to Texas, I couldn't afford rents, hoa, or a mortgage payment there. Property taxes in Texas are insane.
My town is a smaller town, but has 2 hospitals, a state university, a beautiful downtown and nature activities. Actually, I've had more weather damage from ice than winds or tornados.
I lived about 20 miles north of Moore when this happened. I remember well watching much of this footage live as it was happening. That night we had an army of Oklahomans aiding in search and rescue. Oklahoma army national guard as well as off duty medical professionals, police, and fire from all over the state came to help. By the mourning of the next day we had volunteers from surrounding states pouring it. A tent city was erected to care for the volunteers. Restaurants and grocery stores were donating food and cooking meals for those working. Thousands of line crews from all over the country worked for days to restore power in near 100 degree heat. As awe inspiring as that act of nature may have been, the recovery effort from so many thousands and thousands of people was even more amazing. There we so many that some had to be turned away. He was right when he said "We take care of each other here". And if that is not enough then our neighbors in Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, come to help.
It's the pioneer spirit. Neighbor helping neighbor. Tornadoes are just phenomenen we in tornado alley are used to. They have recorded a tornado in all 50 states.
I think it is a part of the rural settlement culture, you help your neighbor because you may need their help, on top of it just being the right thing to do.
I am from Texas, we are a neighboring state to Oklahoma and have seen our share of tornado devastation as well, however, Moore has been affected way more than any city should be. I have seen videos of both the 1999 and the 2013 storms and my response was much like yours. Watching this again was no easier than the 1st time and brought me to tears. Thinking about how all of those victims both young and old spent their last moments on this Earth in sheer terror just devastates my soul. My neighbors in Oklahoma are cut from some pretty tough and caring cloth though and immediately went about helping each other. I pray that Moore never has to see this again, they have suffered too much.
I am a transplant from Washington State. I have already seen the compassion of the people here in Oklahoma, and the True grit and determination of people in even the neighboring states like Texas and others. It is incredible. Something Washington doesn't have and never will. I like to think that although I was raised in Washington, I was born in Nebraska corn fed, and I too share that same sentiment of community and we stand together and stay strong. I really feel like hell with where I was raised, I came HOME to the proper region I need to be. These are my people. 💯❤️
Once in the early 70s my aunt was headed to church down the expressway. A tornado picked her car up and put it back down on the other side of the road going the opposite direction without any damage or injuries
A very similar thing happened to me and I am still mind-blown by the experience. Our God is so good.
I was in a tornado once, when I was 5. I'm 45 now, and it still haunts me. I hate tornadoes. The sound is incredible. I live in Georgia, US, so we don't get them too much, but whenever that siren goes off, I lose it.
Yeah a smaller one like F2 I think at grandparents’ farm WI-IA border, and u could see the path up and down the 500 ft bluffs where it twisted all the trees. Took the barn roof, machine shed, lots of old trees. But the house was ok, literally 20 ft from the shed and it was ok. Never forgot that as a 11 yr old.
I saw a little F1 in Wisconsin on a camping trip. I was 11. Haunts me too. I never want to see a real one again. I went and saw Twisters and the sound of the tornado sirens sent a chill down my spine sitting comfortably in the theater.
I just wanted to say this because I’ve heard you say it a couple times when they say a tornado for example it’s like a F5 and it’s going up to 200 something miles an hour they’re talking about the inside circulation of the tornado not how fast it’s moving on the ground. They will say It is traveling at so-and-so miles per hour for the speed it is traveling 😊 just wanted to put that out there for educational purposes. Love the videos you guys! 😅
I live in "Tornado Alley" - in Wichita, Kansas. The news these days often make me ashamed of my fellow Americans, but I see our true spirit in the aftermath of these disasters. This makes me proud and grateful to be an American! ❤
I am also I Wichita, we have seen our fair share of tornados over the last few years. That very long track one we had 10 years or so ago that was on the ground around 200 miles, that thing was following us as we left town. It followed us almost clear to Kansas city
in 1985 we had a tornado pass by nine miles away. We had hail stones the size of golf balls hit us. I spent the following 3 weeks delivering food to people out there, using chainsaws to clear roads and rescue people trapped in their homes. There were roughly 200 of us volunteers involved in the cleanup. We worked from 7am until dark 7 days a week. I hosted a couple that drove 4 hours to come help
Oklahoma is the greatest state in the nation. Hands downs the best people on the face of the planet.
I live in Oklahoma, but I've never been through a tornado. Still, tornado warnings are definitely not uncommon. There is a period of time in the spring and later in the fall when tornado activity is heightened, but most of the year Oklahoma has pretty typical weather. I understand when Carol says that she would never live here because of the tornadoes, but most parts of the U.S. have some sort of weather phenomena to deal with. On the coasts, hurricanes. In the north, extreme cold and winter storms, even ice storms that can knock power out for days and even weeks. Some parts of the U.S. are subject to frequent devastating flooding. Wherever you go, there is some concerning phenomena. But, most of the time, it's just simply a beautiful country to live in! Thank you for watching and for your concern! I love watching your reaction videos and your unboxing videos!
Proud Oklahoman here. I remember this day like it was yesterday. What happened at Plaza Towers hit me the most; even as it was developing. I grew up here and still live here... Love it. Thank you for covering this. Great vid.
Oooo Carol. Love your hair. Such a pretty summer look.
As Recky would say "Great for the beach" 😊
Blessings y'all from the Great State of Texas.🇺🇸
A few days after the tornado, my sister's church sent a caravan of trucks loaded with food and water and clothes and anything that would fit. They took tools and building supplies and pledged two weeks of about 30 people to work, from cooking for those who needed it, as well as the work crews, and then those who were able who worked side by side the people or Moore. This church is in Pennsylvania so it was no small task.
Thank your sister and her church for me please. The food and supplies were a major help. I don’t know what I and the others around us would have done. The entire area that was effected was under lock down no one who did not live there could get in and with all the debris it was impossible to get out. Those who sent food and clothes helped to make sure people didn’t starve. So thank you and god bless.
@@jelm8957 I will definitely pass that along. I'm sure it will mean a lot after all this time. It's a very mission-minded church, anxious to serve and heal hurts of all kinds whenever possible. And they put their hands to work, too, not just sending money (although that is always welcome, I know) but they love coming alongside those who have such incredible needs.
To answer the question "why Oklahoma doesn't have basements/shelters?" We do have underground shelters in some areas and our land is made up with red clay and other materials that shift and cannot keep the form of a shelter for long lengths of time. Some people have shelters built inside their garages. Mine is made up with four walls of 18 inches of concrete that is attached to my brick house. Inside it's 8 by 8 feet. We have emergency water, food, documents, and extra clothing just in case!
I’ve wondered about that, I’d heard some types of land are unsuitable for basements so I hoped there was some other option. I’m so glad you have something built to protect you!
@@damienb6184 Thank You
To follow up on this: many parts of Oklahoma have very high water tables...as high as 3 and a half feet (0.9-1 meter) below the surface. The expense of constantly keeping the foundation waterproofed, compounded with the unstable clay soil makes basements impractical in 80-90% of buildings and homes.
@@damienb6184 Arkansas is considered part of Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley. To my knowledge most of Arkansas is not compatible with underground shelters due to the type of soil. My large multi building apartment complex offers no storm shelters though one semi minor perk is that one of the county/city tornado sirens is permanently parked across the street. It's a good back up in case there are issues with the radio WX alert warning system and cell phones.
Bravo, prepare for the worst, hope for the best! So many sheeple just don't have a clue, about surviving anything tougher than an ingrown toenail!..SMMFH..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸👋🤠
Ive been to Moore, Ok several times in the past couple of years. The town has been completed rebuilt, all new homes, businesses, and apartments.
Still here. Born and raised in Moore Oklahoma I remember this tornado.
How could you forget? lol
Carol, all 35 schools now have storm shelters in their school district. You both have such big loving hearts.
Moore's been hit twice in recent years. As I recall, there's a small monument showing where the two tracks of the tornadoes cross.
There's also the monument for the storm chasers who lost their lives too
Halfway, I am here. I remember this tornado vividly. This one and 1999. This year, 2024, we had several large tornadoes hit various parts of Oklahoma. It takes a special kind of person to keep living here. Okie built, okie strong!
We don't wallow in self pity we just take care of our own
So many memories of this. I lived on the Northern part of Oklahoma City and was watching this unfold and remembering when my uncle survived the May 3rd tornado in Del City. He had a two story house the only thing left was his stairway and two walls of the kitchen. His wife and youngest son and himself were in the closet under the stairs it took both him and his son to hold the door shut.
Halfway marker. Carol is so empathetic. ❤️❤️
You definitely do get mesmerized. Here in southern New Jersey I watched a tornado approach and pass over my house a few years ago. It took the roof right off my 3 car garage like it was tissue paper. Every instinct told me to grab my dogs and get in the basement but I couldn't move,,except to run from the back windows to the front ones to watch it pass right over.....I was in absolute awe.......it touched down 2 miles from my house,took 5 homes and 3 lives. I dodged a bullet that day🌪
Edit: halfway marker,,I'm still here!
OMG I'm so glad it only took your garage roof. A lot of people are so stunned that they stand and watch a tornado. I've been through a few and my husband hasn't The last tornado that came through, he was right up against our French doors looking at the twister. I grabbed the back of his shirt and yelled at him to get down. Those windows went within about 20 seconds.
@kateg7298 we don't get very bad ones here in Jersey,,but my son lives in Iowa. Last month him,his 2 boys and pregnant wife spent hours in their basement safe spot on 3 different nights. I obsessively watch his weather so I can tell him to put on boots,helmets on the boys,put a sports whistle around his neck and get in the basement,,it makes me feel like I have a little control lol......
You're a smart woman making your husband get away from the windows~!! Y'all got so lucky. My hands were shaking when I realized how close I was to being a direct hit! Stay safe💛
There was an F3 in Maryland a few weeks ago. I was born in Connecticut and when I was 2 we had tornados and one was an F4 rating so nothing is impossible.
I'm still here Recky. Hang in there Carol
You two have such kind hearts. I didn't tear up until Carol said she needed a break. ❤ Considering the devastation from this tornado, Moore was blessed in that more people didn't lose their life.
Carol & Recky we lova ya'll. Love from Wisconsin.
To help you understand what Recky means when he says that people come from other states ... I am a member of MCC (mennonite Central Committee) which has under its control the "Mennonite Disaster Service". the service help contractors (builders/construction) who want to go help get there. We help with money for Food, Lodging, places to stay, whatever is needed. But the BIG HELP comes when our own mennonite architects, electricians, heating and air, and plumbers go to help. They bring along all their certifications and things so power can get turned back on or the gas. the architects are on the jobsite so no running to find whoever to see if things are right or strong enough because he's there on site as it were. Usually to there are enough that go help that take their own camper trailers that everyone that helps (rescuer's) has somewhere to sleep. Also everything we do to help is free of charge.
Bless all of you!
I live in Wisconsin where we have a large but scattered Amish population. We get an occasional tornado and also some years we get bad floods. One of our worst tornadoes was in Barneveld (southern part of the state between Madison and the Illinois state line and great farm country) which hit in the middle of the night. Before the sun rose, there already were Amish farmers with their draft horses and tackle starting to remove debris and the women were there with food, coffee, and blankets. The horses could get places the big equipment couldn't so they cleared the way.
You have such a wonderful heart to feel other people's struggles and share...thank you for your sincere reactions!!!
I had cousins in Moore. After the 2013 tornado, one cousin said that was enough. She moved out! I'm in Texas. Our town has been hit a few times. I have a shelter. It went in after we were hit again in 1995.
Carol, we love you and your precious big heart! Thank you for loving us, as much as we love ya'll! ❤
Half way ..I wa crying with you. I met people from Moore after it happened. The town was devastated
Carol&Recky, I watched your reaction, and at the halfway mark, i commented "I'm here", per your request. It is interesting you choose that, because it sums up what happens to the people after a tragedy like this occurs.
I live in the midwest, and we know tomorrow isn't promised. But when something like this happens, people in Americans kick into gear and say "I'm here...." Corperations send semi trucks with washers and driers so those who lost everything can do laundry free), citizens send clothes, food and bottled water as well as other items that are needed for personal care. Often our local stores act as staging for that, so you can buy, say a case of water, and have it loaded on a truck that will be leaving the next day. People go to help clean up, some voulenteer to help rebuild.
Overwhelmingly, the message is "I'm here.... (and you are not alone.)"
Thank you so much for caring, while watching this. I'm an American and have never seen a tornado but I know people who have been affected by them. It's really horrible. I'm hearing lately that it's not just America anymore. Germany and Czechia have had a few. China and Brazil, too. Thankfully, they are rare. (And most tornadoes are not this big, strong, and long. Most are on the ground only a few minutes. Many start in open fields or countryside.) My heart goes out to all people affected by extreme weather or nature.
I love your duo reactions 😊 Carol asked about schools having storm shelters… Most new schools in Kansas (where I live) are built with safe rooms inside that can withstand 250-mph winds. Older schools aren’t built to stand up to significant winds. I can remember tornado drills as a kid where teachers lined us up in the hallway with our hands over our heads. I’m proud of Carol for wanting to learn about severe weather!
Thank you both for emphatically living through that for understanding what we really do live through in Tornado Alley. It is a whole other level of ALL the emotions at once when a tornado is right above you.
These tornadoes went through an area where the schools were built decades before the tornado so they didn't have shelters. After the event they did put shelters in all of the Moore schools and the entire state is trying to get shelters in the schools.
Good to know, God bless these schools and their students
All of my primary schools in Oklahoma had tornado shelters during the 70's and 80's. I'm not sure why any school was ever built here without a tornado shelter.
After the second Moore tornado in 2013, my very small but extremely well funded school built a shelter.
After school hours, they generously open it to the community.
I was a teacher during this. Our school was in the path but the tornado made a hard right turn and missed us. I was lying on top of my students and there were so many children crying and so scared.
The day before this storm my house had been barely missed by an EF-4 tornado in a different town. I had coworkers that actually lost their homes in this storm. After work every day I went into the affected areas in Moore and helped in the clean up effort. Every night got home and spent an hour pulling fiberglass out of my skin and just was so thankful I still had my home. People who had lost everything were setting up grills and cooking food for the volunteers and bringing us waters etc. Oklahomans are just built different.
Thank you for covering this event!! ❤
Half way, I'm here. Bless your kind hearts.
Umm are you from America? If not ummmmmm the bless ur heart is not what you think it means in southern terms it basically same as the 1 finger salute
@@unicorn_gaming1236that's why I didn't say that 😊.
I was driving into Moore about 3 hours after the tornado lifted as part of emergency services. that was a life changing experience.
I live in Moore Ok. My daughters high school was hit (Westmoore) in 1999, and the homes West of the school and apartments East of the school were flattened. I live within a mile of the school, and we were fortunately not directly hit, but were in our storm cellar, and it really sounds like a train. The National Guard actually blocked off our whole square mile to prevent looting, and to limit access to the area. The footage you watched was a several years later. My horse Vet knew the storm hit a horse facility on 134th and South Western. He traveled from Eastern Moore to the facility and had to start putting down horses. He ran out of the drugs to put them down. The Facility had been flattened, and some of the horses were in stalls with no escape. He said it was the worst thing he had ever seen in his career. Oklahoma is a wonderful place to live, and the people are unmatched.
I watched it all with you. I watched it as it happened, too. Thank you for your kind words. ❤❤❤
Carol, you are awesome to watch these videos. Your interest in the trials that others endure in a country very different from Sweden is touching. You and Recky are truly beautiful souls.
Halfway through, i live in edmond oklahoma, have live in Oklahoma all my life no matter how much you prepare you are never really ready!
Carol, sweetheart I have seen so many tornado videos to be able to learn more and even though I know what's coming, I still cry and cry for all the pain and loss everyone has gone through.
This tornado was so large that at any one point, the tornado grinded everything down to nothing for over 2 minutes...you can't survive that
Love you Carol 🫂 I know how you feel.
Sam Pena and the news anchor reporting on the kids hit me the hardest.
Mr. Pena was a hero 100% 💜
I’m a Okie in northeast Oklahoma. My husband & I are stationary storm spotters. We’ve seen many tornadoes. We report to national weather service (NWS). We just few weeks ago witnessed a devastating tornado in Claremore, Oklahoma. Spotters or not we know when to hit the storm cellar. Fortunately we only had minor damage but just 1/2 mile away was hit hard. My advice is take free safety classes & especially stay calm. Panic can be very deadly ❤
Like I've mentioned before, my mother grew up in Moore. They got hit the next day, I believe ,or the day before. It was a horror.
I live in Norman just a few miles south of Moore. We start preparing for tornado season in March with May being the busiest month, sometimes 2 or 3 nights a week spent taking shelter. The systems almost always start in mid to late afternoon and can last several hours. Sirens have gone off at my house at 11:30 pm before. Tornado season usually ends in mid June when the weather systems stabilize and it’s only hot outside. There is another period in late September and October when summer turns to fall that weather conditions can produce tornadoes as well. It’s stressful. I think we’ve taken shelter 6 times so far by end of may this year.
Impossible not to shed tears watching this. No matter how many times you watch it. Absolute horror.
Hurricanes are huge, but a tornado is more powerful than a hurricane.
I’m proud of you Carol. This is very hard to watch and hear of the losses. It reminds us that life is so dear and to rejoice in each other and each day that we are granted on this earth.
Carol, I’ve seen these tornado videos a few times each and I get teary every time. How can you not ?
I love how Moa's there to comfort you while watching this, because these are hard to watch. God Bless all the soles lost & injured that day❤😭P.S. I think if you watch another one of these. You should watch the Hattiesburg, Mississippi episode or Henryville, Indiana episode.
I have been through many, many tornadoes in my 58 yrs, luckily only a couple of EF 4 and EF 5. If you are in the direct path of one of the worst ones, it is pretty terrifying. I have lost family and friends in them, and luckily, we haven't had either an EF 4 or EF 5 in our area in almost 14 yrs.
Also, I didn't know you had a channel with your wife. She's lovely and her voice is also lovely.
Carol, I cried the first, second, and this time watching it. They're scary as hell. They're devastating, and nothing can be done.
I live in Oklahoma. I remember that night. My brother lived near the Moore area. It was a night of horror and worry. Thankfully God kept my brother and his family safe.
I'm from Oklahoma City. This was brutal. People from the shops next door came to shelter in the refrigerator at the pizza place where I worked. Tornado destroyed the neighborhood just behind the restaurant. Still here
I remember this tornado and how horribly scary this day was. I live 3 miles south of Moore and we immediately went to offer any help we could- me, my 10yr old and my two littles (2 & 3yrs old at the time) both in a wagon behnd me. We just needed to help do something, anything we could...
There was a line a half a mile long of people doing the same thing we were doing- taking blankets, water bottles, flashlights, food, clothing, anything you could imagine needing at a time like that...
The thing about Oklahomans is that we can't stand by and watch a tragedy unfold without trying to make things better or offer a helping hand to anyone whose life is affected by it. I love that about my people💜
I watched the entire video, btw. Much love to Carol for her empzthy💜💜💜
43:46 I made it to the end. I was born in Oklahoma and seeing this makes me proud to be born Oklahoman. I live in Arkansas and have been for 32 years now.
Hello from north Moore, Oklahoma. We are always aware and vigilant during tornado season. We always have a plan as well. Best regards
💗To Carol for sticking with the video - even though it's very hard to watch. We take what disasters do to others very personally in this country. Hurricane Katrina Devastated much of the gulf coast with people stranded on top of their homes, and in New Orleans with no food, water and much of their lives destroyed. From 1/2 way across the country, I know someone who hired a Semi truck driver to drive down to the area and the entire community went to the stores to buy items that those people could need and loaded that semi to the brim with things that they could use to help them in some way. ( IDK if there is a video on youtube that really covers the scale of that disaster. If there is, It's one I would watch if learning about our disasters and how it affects us) . It's great to see a people come together as we do when something bad happens. If we could do that every day, we'd be unstoppable in everything we do.
If you are interested, there's a book called Five Days At Memorial that's a fascinating snapshot of what happened at one of the hospitals in Katrina's path. So good. So devastating.
The most terrifying thing is sitting there hoping it misses you hope it misses your family and friends then...hearing it coming, getting closer and closer and closer, hearing the roar, and wind get stronger, feeling the earth shaking and vibrating, knowing its speeding toward you with incredible force and strength. Then hearing it hit you. Hearing the stuff crashing all around you. Then stepping out and seeing everything different. Buildings gone, trees gone, road signs, landmarks everything. You dont even know where you are or how to get anywhere. It is something you will never forget.
This is gonna be a tough one. That tornado is up against 2 others for being the strongest/fastest tornadoes ever recorded!!! But with all F5s, an interior room on the lowest level of your house with no windows isn't gonna cut it!! You have to be in a basement or storm cellar to live!!!
My son worked in Moore when the tornado came through. Fortunately, his building was on the tail end of it, sustaining minor damage. But he said they could feel the ground rumbling when it came through. So scary!
A home with a true underground basement is definitely a plus here in the metro ATL. I have lived through a few. Driven through a couple. A lot of higher end homes are being built with reinforced concrete storm bunkers that double as the basement bathroom. Metal door with reinforced hardware. A bunch of prepper types also keep an emergency ration/essential’s pack in there as well, in case they get buried by debris. Our home has a full finished basement, it’s about 75% underground with one corner completely below ground. In that corner is a closet that I’ve reinforced with 8cm of layered plywood and 3mm steel plate. Not sure my 83 year old mom could get down the stairs anymore, but I’m sure a storm would motivate her someway.
Im from Oklahoma and I was about 5 houses down from Briarwood Elementary. I can’t hardly watch this without crying from the beginning. Because I know and will never forget.
As a person who lives in "Tornado Alley" , I have seen 6 tornados in my life... about 1 per decade. In 2008, and EF5 tornado went about 60 miles north of me. I went up to help with the clean-up. The 1.5 mile wide tornado was on the ground for about 46 miles. Destroyed one town and many properties. A month later, our river in my hometown flooded to 2 miles wide causing just as much damage. I helped with that clean-up also. Big year for volunteering in this area. Some schools don't have shelters because the rground water level is so high if they build an undergroud shelter, it will flood. The United States as a whole experiences more tornadoes than any other country, with about 75% of the world's tornadoes occurring there.
From an oklahoman,I love you both and thank you for the kind words about my fellow oklahomans, we saw Barnsdall Oklahoma after it was it by an F4 on May 6th 2024,it was horrible
I grew up 30 miles south of Moore it's a tough place to live but you get used to it. You expect it but then again you are never truly prepared for it when it hits your area.
Yup... I grew up in Kansas and saw my first dead body at 13 years old doing search and rescue after a tornado. Carol and I have the same reaction to videos like this. I've seen this one a few times and cry every time. I remember driving through Moore a year later and could still see the path. I helped rebuild Greensburg, Kansas after their tornado and you can still see remnants of damage in old trees
Carol proving she's Oklahoma strong to get thru this one. ❤❤
That's terrifying to watch, a tornado can level an entire town. My family and myself have survived a number of bad hurricanes here in SW Florida with terrible destruction, but a Tornado is a different beast altogether.
I have seen this one before and I cry every time I see it
This last hurricane that came through Texas brought storms to Louisiana and we had 62 separate tornado warnings in my area. I never realized how wild the weather can be on this continent until I started watching folks like y'all.
Schools typically don't need bunkers because the schools themselves are usually strong enough by themselves. My entire highschool was a nuclear bunker.
This Swedish couple watching this tornado footage are real people. You could see the emotions are real. They have compassion and empathy. Good job!