TORNADO northwest of OK city

[underseasurveyor]

Keep your eyes to the skies and get your ass in the basement if you live in the area:hide:

[Deep13]

1. How can anyone watch the sky from the basement?

:shrug:

[The Straight Story]

2. Using a webcam

:)

[Hoopla Phil]

3. Sucks. At least you get some sort of warning.

[Siwsan]

4. I hated having to go down the basement during a warning

My mom would always instruct us to hunker down beneath the laundry tub. There were huge, vicious, snarling spiders beneath that tub. I was less afraid of the tornado, than I was of the spiders.

[ezgoingrl]

10. I still have nightmares about

my grandparents' cellar. Ugh. I hated going down there. This lovely storm system is headed my direction too. I'm still in snow and ice mode...not ready for severe weather yet. Guess it's too late for that, though.

[elizfeelinggreat]

32. Wish I had a basement

I don't think there are many in Texas? My first taste of sitting in the basement waiting out a tornado warning was in Colorado. That basement sure looks good to me now.

[DURHAM D]

5. I just talked to a friend in OKC.

He says it is beautiful and they are showing great shots live on the local news. He is right in the path but not afraid.

Wish I could watch it live. Now that I live on the east coast I miss all the excitement.

[underseasurveyor]

6. Wild weather is the one thing I miss

about living in Iowa. The ONLY thing too. I'm glad to be back home in earthquake country :-)

[ferrous wheel]

12. He thinks it's beautiful and he's not afraid of it?

Just a guess here...your friend is either nuts or a brand new Okie...
;-)

[DURHAM D]

14. Nope - he has lived there all of his life - all 62 years.

If he had not grown up there he would have moved there just for the weather drama. Also, don't forget, Doppler (according to him) was developed there in Norman. I do know that when I moved to the east coast in the mid-80s no one had heard of Doppler Radar. That changed of course.

[bigbrother05]

22. OKC has always had the latest radar warning system

All the severe weather gadgets are developed and tested out of the OU North Campus in Norman. When they can give you 5-15 minutes warning down to the street-level address, it is a lot easier to appreciate the spectacle with less anxiety.

Grew up in OK and lived around Norman/OKC for over 10 years.

[underseasurveyor]

16. Thunderstorms and super-cell storms are a magnificent sight

Beautiful, exciting and exhilarating yet somewhat unnerving at the same time.

[ipfilter]

30. Especially unnerving when your house is in the path.

[underseasurveyor]

35. Yea that's for sure

How many times have I run outside to look at the sky then run back in the house to grab the critters, take to the basement... stop in front of the tv for the latest doppler, run outside look at the sky, run back in the house, grab boxes (photos, personal papers, etc.), take to the basement, run back outside... repeat, repeat.

It's a good work-out LOL

[KatyaR]

36. You can stream weather coverage during these storms--

try http://www.news9.com/. We watched it all afternoon at work. Storms came right over our offices at least twice, and it's not over yet.

[Belial]

7. I guess its different out there in OK.. in the South with all

the trees and hills.. you dont see anything until its right on top of you..

[RoyGBiv]

15. There are trees and hills in OK ...

It's the ones up near Kansas and out west of OKC that roam for miles without running into anything.

[ezgoingrl]

8. Crap.

Tornadoes in February! Yeehaw. This tornado is in between where I live and Oklahoma City.

[underseasurveyor]

9. I have friends in Yukon, OK

Yes Feb is a little early.

[ezgoingrl]

29. Are you still around?

PM Me, please!

[DURHAM D]

13. I see you are in Enid.

Did you see that bar owner geezer on local tv who doesn't like queers and won't serve them? He is running for city council in Enid.

[ezgoingrl]

19. Yep, I saw him.

I used to go to that bar after work on Fridays. Stopped when I noticed his fondness for certain flags. I'm not in his Ward so I didn't get the pleasure of voting against him today, however.

[ipfilter]

31. That guy is a well known jack boot neo nazi type.

He doesn't like anyone wearing a hat either.

[skeewee08]

11. I work at a Credit Union in OK City they just told us we may have to go to the Vault!

my only question is I hope it opens from the inside:-)

[ezgoingrl]

21. There's another system

around Yukon and then I think I just heard them say there's another one after that.

[underseasurveyor]

26. Can't get a hold of our friends in Yukon.. no answer

on their cell phones, house phone or their business phone.

E-gads

[ezgoingrl]

27. Since the REALLY big tornado

in May, 1999 local stations don't break away from severe weather or really any thunderstorm in the Spring now. The station I'm watching has broken away from radar and is looking at the damage from earlier so Yukon is probably ok.

[ezgoingrl]

33. Figures as soon as I said that,

they showed the radar again and it looks like they're getting rocked pretty hard, but no tornadoes so far.

[a la izquierda]

17. Oh this is scaring the hell out of me...

because I'm in Mexico and I can't get a hold of my darn husband to find out what's going on.

[ThomWV]

18. Someone make me smarter - Isn't this awfully early in the year for tornados?

I thought they began from mid to late spring.

[slackmaster]

25. It's not unusual to have twisters in OK when it's 60 degrees in MI

Don't worry, the weather will be different in 24 hours.

[ipfilter]

34. Warm weather here in Feb means snow next week. nt

[ezgoingrl]

20. I hear it comin this way.

Gettin' dark and noisy...and not in a good way. :crazy:

[underseasurveyor]

24. Yikes

Get ready to run down a hole.

Take care and good luck.

[ezgoingrl]

28. Thank you.

Looks like this one's going to miss us, at least the worst side of it. Still have a couple more systems to make it through. I can tell you one thing for sure, the temperature has seriously dropped.

[malaise]

23. Stay safe DUers

:grouphug: