Oklahoma Tornado

[mfurrh55]

Been up here in Oklahoma doing disaster relief work, Man this place looks like a war zone, I couldn't imagine living through a disaster of this magnitude They had a funeral here for one of the victims and the turn out was enormous, the Patriot guard riders were here and they numbered around 200 And NObama is suppose to be here tomorrow, YUK, Monte

 

[BIGNASTY]

Was in Wichita Falls TX at Shepard AFB when Lawton OK became airborne cause of a tornado, Being from Ca earthquakes are nothing but talk to the Texans they DIDNT SEE HOW YOU CAN LIVE WITH EARTHQUAKES!!! I will take a quake ANYDAY rather than be any place close to a TORNADO

 

[Bill Stockard]

I was in Wichita Falls, TX shortly after a large devastating tornado had passed through there. It looked like someone drove a giant Bush-Hog rotary mower through the area. I watched a small tornado pass across the pasture at our former place in Denton County, TX in the early '60s. In the early '80s, I pulled off the highway about 10 miles west of Paris, TX and sat in my car watching a tornado pass by about a mile away in a rural area that eventually hit the town. Within an hour and before I had returned to the DFW area, I met numerous emergency and utility company service vehicles on the highway already dispatched to Paris.



Bill

 

[Mikey-KE7LBB]

Was in Wichita Falls TX at Shepard AFB when Lawton OK became airborne cause of a tornado, Being from Ca earthquakes are nothing but talk to the Texans they DIDNT SEE HOW YOU CAN LIVE WITH EARTHQUAKES!!! I will take a quake ANYDAY rather than be any place close to a TORNADO

Ahhh... Wichita Falls, TX. Got my first tattoo there when I had some time away from FT. Sill :-laf



That aside, I have been fortunate with the tornado thing so far... I landed in OKC just hours before the BIG one touched down there several years ago! I was picked up at the airport and had no clue what was going on until I checked into the motel in Ponca City, OK. I also slept through one that ripped through an apartment complex that was a block or so away from the motel I was staying at in Texas City, TX.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Seems as thou Wichita Falls, TX has been home to MANY FIRST'S seen a rodeo one Saturday. Went to a club afterwards at a place called Mom's live music, pool, beer lots of Charming Texas Girls (most with all their teeth) Was playing pool when one of the Rodeo cowboys put his quarter on the table and said next game. The other quarters told him to wait until his quarter had been around a little longer!!!! I could see that this was going to get REAL UGLY and FAST told the table that someone else could use my quarter and that I will have a beer. The pushy Cowboy said you've been winning I want the winner not these losers!!!



Have ya EVER heard the sound of a pool cue cutting thru the air at high speed? I went under the pool table and came up the other side just in time to see the Pushy Rodeo Cowboy catch the pool cue across the back of his shoulders and head. My first thought was well that should just about take care of that!!!! But when the pushy cowboy just turned put a crease back in his hat and smiled, my thought turned to OH!!! (CANT SAY IT ANYMORE) Sat at the bar stool and the guy sitting next to me put a beer in my hand and said YA JUST GOT TO THINK THAT SOMEONE THAT STRAPS HIS butt ON A BULL IS NOT!!!! SOMEONE YOU WANT TO GO A FEW ROUNDS WITH. Mom the owner of the place came out with a cut down 2x4 whackin on them to break it up, or TAKE IT OUTSIDE!!!! ( I think she could have taken them both WITHOUT!!!! the 2x4 ) On my way back to the Air Base I thought about what the guy at the bar had said, and it made sense to me what are you going to do to a guy that a 2K bull hasn't already done and that guy is still walking.



Never could figure the whiskey bottle in a bag off the table, could have beer on the table but no whiskey bottle????? Blue Law I guess.



FUNNY PLACE TEXAS :-laf

 

[Mark31]

A long time ago someone told me that most big Texans were alright. But little ones with big mouths and big friends were a whole different story.

 

[Missouri Mule]

Seen the pictures on TV, a real mess. The tornado was huge! Glad we only have to put up with 200 mph Hurricanes every 50 years or so. The hundred mph ones in 2004 were bad enough. FEMA is going to have to bring in a lot of trailers to house those people.

 

[BIGNASTY]

A long time ago someone told me that most big Texans were alright. But little ones with big mouths and big friends were a whole different story.

That's pretty much a WORLD WIDE PROBLEM it's called SMALL MAN SYSDROME they got shorted in the gene pool as to the height gene and try to prove that they are the Toughest LITTLE MAN around so they think that by starting something with a BIGGER GUY that they were tough, and they are pretty tough it must hurt to have your teeth KICKED IN :-laf

 

[GCroyle]

We lived in Mustang just a bit west of Will Rogers Airport back in '99 when the other on hit. When we got the hail that was as close as we got to the bad stuff. Incredible damage. Also remember that the Feed The Children organization jumped right in to collect supplies right there at their warehouse.

To Oklahoma we wish you the best and speak kindly of your State and our good times there. I still remember Fridays at 5 Twister Radio would play two versions of Oklahoma, from the musical and football version. Good stuff.

 

[mfurrh55]

 

[BIGNASTY]

Mother Nature's power is hard to believe.

 

[mfurrh55]

15 miles of this

 

[mfurrh55]

The truck is wrapped around the tree,the frame meets itself at the other end

 

[mfurrh55]

Here's a closer pic of the truck wrapped around the tree

 

[mfurrh55]

Check these pics out, Monte

 

[mfurrh55]

This couple rode out the tornado in their bathtub, and it was thjust about the only thing left of the house.

 

[AMink]

Looks like Detroit. These folks will be back on their feet on no time. Most are hard working and not used to or asking for handouts from the gov.

 

[mfurrh55]

, the one's on top is the school where the kids died