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Tornado in Woodward Oklahoma.


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Early Sunday morning we had a tornado come through our little town.
Had had storms ALL day long saturday. We finaly went to bed right ar 10:30 pm. I looked at the radar just seconds before we went to sleep. THERE WAS NOTHING on the radar but rain, and it wasnt near us. I woke up to alot of thunder, LOUD thunder, but meh, i looked at radar, daytime heat is gone, its just a storm no "naders" at midnight
Well,,,,, at 12:10 am my wife wakes me up and says we have no power and she can hear people yelling. So i get outta bed open the fron door, and i hear police sirens (NOT tornado sirens). My neighbors are piling into a car (someone else car they dont have a car. Yes i live in a poor part of town), yelling there is a tornado in town, then hauling ass north. I was just kinda like uummm ok, and you driving off, why????
No power, no cell calls, but texting was goin through. Dead calm, cop sirens. Very erie!!

Well about 3am we finially get word from someone not in our neighborhood ( not a crack head) that Woodward had been hit. Complete other end of town, i live on 2nd st, tornado started in town at 48th and made it 22nd at about a 45* angle through town.
Hit about the last trailer park in town, its got 2-3 trailers left now. I lived about one block from part of town that got destroid. I was born and rased on 34th street, the part of town that is now gone, is my old stomping grounds. Its hard too look at the place.

5 people dead, 3 were young kids. "Apperentley" the sirens were knocked out by lightning during a prevous storm on saturday afternoon..... Those sirens DID NOT sound, there is one about 4 blocks from my house and my two Huskys houl like coyotes when those sirens go off. They test the every saturday at noon.
Anyhoo, on with the pictures.
 
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Movie theater...
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Todd S.
 
damn, i heard about these storms.

today actually marks a year since we had the same type of storm go through the northeast part of raleigh and couple other cities in NC.....pics look about the same
 
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There was three or four people in that bathroom. All survived. Only wall still standing......
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Bottle of hand sanitizer with a shingle embeded into it. A girl my wife went to school with, this is her bathroom, and that bottle was standing on the counter just as you see it.
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Thats all i have right now.


Todd S.
 
damn, i heard about these storms.

today actually marks a year since we had the same type of storm go through the northeast part of raleigh and couple other cities in NC.....pics look about the same

Ive lived here all my life, so im "used" to tornado action. This one affects me most because all my old friends houses are gone, and NO SIREN was sounded. Ive heard 4 or 5 stories about why the sirens didnt go off. Not sure what the "offical" excuse is. I cant wait to hear it. Lol


Dude, that looks rough, glad your ok......

Thanks, everyone i know on that end of town is ok.
My grandsons adopted parents live right in the middle of those High $$$ new houses. We were pretty worried about them, but got a text about 1am that they were fine, but their house had some good damage.
They called us sunday about 5pm, it was good to hear their voices.

They are supposed to open up the roads tomorow, so i can get more pics then. All these pics are texts from people that live in there. You have to show proof of address to get in.



Todd S.
 
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we dont even have sirens here for some reason. we dont get too many tornadoes from thunderstorms passing through, but we do get a lot of hurricanes that spawn tornadoes....guess they figure you should know when a hurricane is coming and you should already be in a safe location.
 
Glad to hear you made it out ok :icon_thumby:

We threaded the needle up here, one little town to the west was 90% gone, another to the east had a couple houses hit and the hospital took a direct hit. It came up so quick on the second town (Creston Iowa) they didn't have time for either a warning or the sirens. Somehow neither town managed not to lose anybody though.

We did get 5" of rain in about an hour... that was interesting.
 
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Geez man. Glad you're alright. If y'all need anything, let me know
 
Thanks!
Were fine, we didnt even get rain.... It was weird.

Last monday we got this.
Takin by a close friend about 1 mile west of Woodward.
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My daughter sent me this when i said she was full of poo about softball sized hail!!!
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These two pieces are over an hour old!!!
We were in Enid at a dr appt. We say the radar, and waited at Orenita till the storm was outta Woodward.

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Windshield of my wifes explorer.
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Todd S.
 
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Just got these text to me.
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Paul Lord's Dodge. It had a 20+ foot gooseneck trailer on it. Truck is about 25ft from where it was. They were moving into their new house, thats why they had the trailer on.
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Todd S.
 
Holy Cow! I thought the worst destruction I have ever seen was the aftermath of katrina. Not so sure anymore. Glad you're ok.
 

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