[AT] Tornadoes, was test from Gilroy, CA

Mon Jun 3 04:42:05 PDT 2013

They are still looking for 7 people, several are children.  They are in 
2 different areas of the city and in 2 different drainage areas.  Some 
were found 4 miles from where they jumped into the drainage ditch to 
shelter from the tornado.  Both were families who left their house to 
get into the ditch, and it appears they were taking the advice of the 
news media who were saying if you were in the path of the tornado to get 
into a ditch if you had no place to go.....  Of course that was the 
advice if you were in your CAR.  One family appears to not understand 
English very well, and the other one apears to not understand anything 
well at all!!  (-) ( )  Just my $0.02.
These drainage ditches in Oklahoma city can go from a trickle to bank 
full in minutes.

On 6/3/2013 5:45 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> yes Cecil,  I was watching Fox News and they were streaming live
> with one of the chasers, the one who saw the "barn yard" fly away.
> They were also streaming live video from a traffic chopper.   Most of
> the time the chaser on the ground was in a panic.  He was talking so
> fast that the Fox News guy had to keep asking him to slow down so
> he could be understood.  It was clear that he was scared.  At one point
> he was talking about 2 different funnels on the ground and he finally
> turned to go in a different direction towards safety.  When he did another
> funnel dropped more or less in front of him.   One thing is for sure,
> the OK highway patrol was all over it doing everything they could to
> stop traffic from running into the funnels but there was so much traffic
> on the road and almost at a standstill that there was nothing they could do.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil R Bearden
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 10:03 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] test from Gilroy, CA
>
> Charlie:
> I don't know which car was involved in their death.  A news report from
> El Reno OK ( about 20miles WSW from here) was where they were killed.
> This tornado was a gigantic meso cyclone that was from 1 to 2 miles
> across at times.  Within that diameter, it had smaller F3 tornadoes that
> spun down to the ground out of the big one one video showed 4 funnels on
> the ground at one time.  Since it was almost dark, they could not chase
> it and predict just where it would drop a funnel down.    Later that
> night, in only 8 hours, we had 5 inches of rain here to as much as 11
> inches a few miles south to southeast of where I live.  I am just 7
> miles North of the big curve in the Kilpatrick turnpike on the Northwest
> side of OKC.
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 6/2/2013 5:12 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Ron I heard later today after I wrote that a chaser and his two sons were
>> killed.
>> Didn't catch where exactly.  I wasn't implying that Cecil was incorrect.
>> I
>> was
>> just telling what I had heard/seen.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Cook
>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:49 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] test from Gilroy, CA
>>
>> Charlie,
>>        I did hear last night late that one of the chasers was hospitalized
>> with severe injuries.
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>> On 6/2/2013 9:05 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> I didn't hear about a chaser getting killed but I
>>> did see one chaser vehicle that got smashed up badly.
>>> It was a GMC Yukon and I couldn't recognize it in the photo.
>>> The roof was smashed to the top of the hood.  I think they
>>> said all of those folks got out ok.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Cecil R Bearden
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 9:27 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] test from Gilroy, CA
>>>
>>> I had not heard that one!  That may just be when it happened.  One of
>>> those storm chaser cars was demolished and I heard one of the storm
>>> chasers was killed.    Not sure what vehicle it was.   I feel sorry for
>>> the OK Highway Patrol trooper who watched a car blown off the road and
>>> then a mother and her child pulled from the car and slammed into a tree
>>> line.   The rest of the family was there.   The trooper found her and
>>> the child but they were dead....
>>>
>>> Poor trooper.  That will haunt him for the rest of his life...
>>>
>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/2/2013 4:56 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>>>> Glad to hear it didn't hit your place Cecil.
>>>> I was watching one of the storm chasers live on
>>>> TV.  He was on I-40 and there seemed to be funnels on
>>>> all sides of him for a while.  At one point he said he
>>>> saw a "farm yard" fly over the interstate over his head.
>>>> I wonder if those cows were part of what he saw.
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ron Cook
>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 1:43 AM
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] test from Gilroy, CA
>>>>
>>>> Cecil,
>>>>          They may have had quite an interesting trip across the
>>>> interstate!
>>>>
>>>>          Glad to hear you are okay.
>>>> Ron Cook
>>>> Salix, IA
>>>> On 6/1/2013 11:34 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>>>>> On 6/1/2013 8:48 PM, Doug Tallman wrote:
>>>>>> Makes it thru what???? Doug T
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Made it to tornado ravaged Oklahoma.
>>>>> Last night's tornado hit the OKC West stockyards. Luckily it was friday
>>>>> and only 40 or so head of cattle were in the pens. 12 head were missing
>>>>> this morning. They were found alive on the south side of I-40 this
>>>>> afternoon. The stockyards is on the north sode of I-40. It does not
>>>>> appear they walked!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>> Truth is stranger than fiction...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>>>
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