Picher Oklahoma Tornado Damage

[prettyeyes6987]

No one will ever know how it feels to go thru something like this until you and your family goes thru this. I lived in Picher, Oklahoma and I lived thru this and I will tell you something, This is a town that was struck with alot of problems but we are a town the will live on in all of our hearts. WE ALL LOVED LIVING IN THIS TOWN.

[kabedababe]

I'm glad I moved before the tornado came through. Then we invested in a storm cellar when we moved in...

[rudolphna54]

Why did you move there? That area is a toxic mess. hundreds of Thousands of tons of lead laced mine tailings, ground that could collapse any second from mine cave-ins, an orange river from the toxic heavy metals.... The government paid people to move away from Picher, it is deemed the most toxic area in the US. Children have lead poisoning. microscopic lead dust blows through every nook and cranny of this ghost town.

[korvelo]

why you people keep putting your lives and those of your family in danger and at the same time wasting so much money building a house that the wind of all things can blow away.

it's so easy to build a house to be TORNADO PROOF and it doesn't cost much more than the wood junk most build...do you guys don't care ?do you stole the money to build them or did the insurance policy made you feel good about it?... work all your life for what ? what about your family ,are they worth to protect????????

[man8ing]

dude you must not live in the midwest- wind of all things, are you kidding me- wind can do lots of damage. Tornado Proof? that the dumbest thing I have ever heard

[korvelo]

dumb to build TORNADO PROOF ?

what you call not build tornado proof?

the problem is that all the people you know are as dumb as you and for reasons that should make no sense to anyone intelligent do not protect themselves and their families and live in disposable pieces of junk....

[korvelo]

whine on

tornadoes and other events would not take lives if we would be smart and be prepared.

you must like gambling,good luck.

and if you live in a wood house you live in disposable piece of junk that you never know if it will be there when you come home,or what to do in a fire or tornado.

[avaiae]

So you come on youtube and type in order to justify this how?

[Eddayson]

This was only an EF-3?

[agcatdriver]

Preliminary reports placed it at an EF-3, but a few days later, that was updated to EF-4. Seems like the NWS has been pretty cautious on giving out EF-4 ratings lately for some reason. Several tornadoes that have left damage that looked to be well into the EF-4 category have been rated as EF-3's.

[dougbear2004]

Lord will heal your pain and your loss.

[dougbear2004]

Very sad i lived on a farm about a mile from there 10 months ago. I know you are in my prayers. Lord will your pain and your loss.

[PSILOCYBIN2007]

i remember this town, good thing it didn't hit miami, it would tore shit up

[douglas785]

that is bad.and it sad people dies and lose homes.i live in miami oklahoma.i saw a low cloud when it was near commerce oklahoma.i been praying for them.

[agcatdriver]

Preliminary reports say it was an EF-3, but looking at the damage in this video, I'd think more along the lines of a solid EF-4.

[Eddayson]

I was thinking the same thing

[aPunkSkinxanIndeJock]

im from oklahoma,and boy that shure does look like hurricane katrina.-inde jock

[tuffygirl1972]

we are trying to locate family from Picher........ WAYNE, RICHARD AND ROBERT RANEY if anyone knows them please let us know if they are alive I will check back on here conmtinually. NO luck locating them through sherrif, red cross and hospitals they live in on south OTTAWA St. in Picher

[ttglenn]

I called the funeral home in Picher today, this is my mother's hometown and the information we received was that the reason there isn't much info. available right now is because there have been bodies transported to Tulsa for identification. I don't know anything else. There are some injured that were transported to the Baptist Hospital in Miami also. Hope this helps.

[tuffygirl1972]

thank you for this information! We found them finally!!!!!! THANKS and God Bless!

[taintedlove68]

WOW-----i used to live in Quapaw....i feel so bad for those people.....

[lehalel]

insane... my sympathy and prayers with you.

[xiner]

God really hates the red states this year. Maybe he's tired of Pat Robertson speaking on his behalf after every tragedy in California and New York.