[AT] Tornadoes, was test from Gilroy, CA

Mon Jun 3 07:10:55 PDT 2013

Not a good scenario, Cecil.  I presume those were something larger than a driveway whistle?  I had never heard them called that until I lived in Stillwater, and found THAT describes what they actually do in the constant wind -- whistle!

Larry

---- Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote: 
> 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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