(05-20-2013 11:19 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-20-2013 07:48 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(05-20-2013 06:43 PM)Knightsweat Wrote:  Native Oklahoman here. Just spoke to some family in the OKC area, and its really bad. This was quite possibly the largest tornado ever recorded. At one point it was estimated at two miles wide. Tornadoes still scare the living hell out of me, mostly from childhood experiences. I hope they find all of these children alive. Heartbreaking.

Oh and they're predicting more severe weather tonight. Honestly tornado shelters should be a state law.

Definitely for schools. In tornado country, any building rebuilt with federal disaster relief money should require tornado shelters as part of the reconstruction plan...

I thought so too Bit, but found out that the whole state rests on what amounts to solid bedrock. They say the undertaking is both difficult and costly. If that's the case they they should earth berm shelters on the east side of the buildings and make the shelters out of steel.

They drill for oil through that bedrock. Have they never heard of dynamite? Blast a good sized hole in the bedrock, build a shelter, and the building over the top of that. Set a steel reinforced concrete base floor at ground level and it should withstand the storm, no matter how big...

The death toll has been revised down to 24. Nine of which are children.