[AT] test from Gilroy, CA

[Dave Rotigel]

Note to self--DON'T CHASE AFTER TORNADOS!
		Dave

On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:

> 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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