Two-mile-wide tornado slams Oklahoma City area, killing at least 10 "Horses and stuff flying around"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5AWHYGxAkE(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed and a number of other people were injured when a storm with a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said.
At least one school in Moore, Oklahoma, appeared to have been hit by the tornado. Emergency personnel were scouring the school's rubble Monday evening, video from CNN affiliate KFOR showed. The footage also showed a number of other leveled buildings.
The tornado was estimated to be at least 2 miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, KFOR reported. Video from CNN affiliates showed a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, kicking up debris.
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Hope that ? don't come through here.
Supposed to be storming all week, was supposed to storm today, ain't ? happen though. -
A bunch of kids were found drowned in a school pool.
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The ? was they doing in there during a tornado.
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? happens *shrugs*
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Death toll now at 37.
Now we're getting somewhere. -
37? Damn its officially a disaster....tornadoes rule.
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Current death toll is at 51.
20 more, I just need 20 more and I'll be good. -
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I'd smash Storm with the quickness.
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? is real out there
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(CNN) -- At least 51 people -- including seven children at an elementary school -- were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said.
Seven children were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, a police official said. Emergency personnel were scouring the school's rubble Monday evening, video from CNN affiliate KFOR showed. The footage also showed a number of other leveled buildings.
The tornado was estimated to be at least 2 miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, KFOR reported. Video from CNN affiliates showed a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, kicking up debris.
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Latest updates:
-- Fifty-one people have died as a result of the storm that hit the Oklahoma City area Monday, Oklahoma's office of the chief medical examiner said.
-- The dead include seven children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, said Oklahoma City Police Department spokesman Kevin Parton.
-- Storm damage has been reported in Cleveland County, which includes Moore; McClain County, which includes Newcastle; and Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management representative Terri Watkins said.
-- Hospitals in metropolitan Oklahoma City are treating a number of people injured in the storm that hit the area Monday afternoon.
Twelve adults and eight children are being treated at the Oklahoma University Medical Center and The Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City, OU Medical Center spokesman Scott Coppenbarger said. "We expect more patients to arrive this evening," Coppenbarger said.
Elsewhere, the Norman Regional Hospital and the Healthplex in Norman, Oklahoma, are treating an unspecified number of people with "signs of trauma, lacerations and broken bones," spokeswoman Melissa Herron said.
Thirteen patients have been transported from Moore Hospital to other area hospitals, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management representative Terri Watkins said. -
I want to see some flying horses
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Yo, it aint trill until 100 funerals take place. I think its got a shot to make that hunnybun
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smh.
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Thats a big ? tornado. I sure am glad the mountains here help prevent that ?
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I don't think it'll get up there.Yo, it aint trill until 100 funerals take place. I think its got a shot to make that hunnybun
We can still hope though. -
Damn, I thought they would be flying horses.
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A whole school full of kids.... Just gone smh
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this make me wanna watch twister
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I wana see white kids thrown in the air
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Aint no cops get killed ? So those ? weren't out tryin to save people sons of ? .
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Tornados...im sorry...Ter-Nay-Ders as they called them are just natures way of making sure the IQ in a particular reason doesnt drop to dinosaur brain level proportions.
Notice this ? happens in the South and Midwest a lot. Where either the dumbest or most evil crackers live. Nature be knowin mayne. Mother nature is a Conscience Black Woman. -
Looks like this ? might get trill after all:Yo, it aint trill until 100 funerals take place. I think its got a shot to make that hunnybunMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Even for a city toughened by massive tornadoes, Moore has never seen this kind of devastation.
The vicious tornado that ripped across central Oklahoma on Monday killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma state medical examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said Tuesday. Roughly half of the expected bodies are children.
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Kids drowned after roof fell on them
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I didn't think the weather channel was going to do local on the 8's b/c of this tornado
80's with a stray thunderstorm this evening
