Monday, May 03, 2010

Ten years ago Ma Nature did a major vacuuming job

in this state and Kansas:
A total of 74 tornadoes touched down across the two states in less than 21 hours. At one point, there were as many as four tornadoes reported on the ground at the same time. The strongest tornado, rated a maximum F-5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, tracked for nearly an hour and a half along a 38-mile path from Chickasha through south Oklahoma City and the suburbs of Bridge Creek, Newcastle, Moore, Midwest City and Del City.

As the skies cleared, the states counted 46 dead and 800 injured, more than 8000 homes damaged or destroyed, and total property damage of nearly $1.5 billion.
I wrote about that day here; I lived in the northwest part of OKC, and all we got was a little wind and rain. But people who had to hide from it... some people, for years after, got anywhere from jumpy to scared to death if there were a few clouds in the sky on this date.

Today just a few clouds, light wind, a really nice day. BIG difference.

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