Authorities said a signal tower for Woodward's tornado sirens was struck by lightning and hit by a tornado early Sunday morning. Police Chief Harvey Rutherford said the tower that was supposed to send a repeating signal to the town's tornado siren system was knocked out.
The other night I mentioned the 1947 twister that hit Woodward; the museum in Norman used to have a display of it and one item really stuck in my mind: it's a brake drum from a car or pickup with a big splinter of oak flooring punched through it. Yes, actually through the metal.
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"the tower that was supposed to send a repeating signal to the town's tornado siren system was knocked out."
I guess someone forgot to tell them that "one is none". Hopefully they'll actually budget for (and actually buy and install) a backup system when they rebuild.
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