Stormgasm 2015 is now open...

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Apparently McNellies has a basement that everyone had to evacuate to

I know the building has a basement.  I don't know what it may have in it, if anything.

[Hoss]

I know the building has a basement.  I don't know what it may have in it, if anything.

I know that people at the hockey game were all shuffled to the basement. I was up at the office. Our building has two big old vaults in case we needed it. We didn't. But now I have no power and estimates are restoration at 7am.

Have I mentioned that overhead lines in a city like Tulsa are asinine?

[Breadburner]

Heh, I know who did it.  His photoshop skills are pretty amazing.  Said he never even saved it on his hard drive before it went viral.

It looked good.....

[Conan71]

I know that people at the hockey game were all shuffled to the basement. I was up at the office. Our building has two big old vaults in case we needed it. We didn't. But now I have no power and estimates are restoration at 7am.

Have I mentioned that overhead lines in a city like Tulsa are asinine?

KRMG was reporting there’s wind damage on 15th between Sheridan & Memorial.  Did you see anything on your way home?

[DolfanBob]

And in Moore Oklahoma.......
People there need to get a clue.

[AngieB]

I got to my glass class at Waterworks about 5:30 and was promptly sent to the basement. At one point we could hear what sounded like the roar of a tornado passing by very closely. There was no power and all we had was the light of our cell phones while we hunkered down there until about 6:45. I have a bit of hail damage on my car - not too bad though and I will wait until the storm season is over before worrying about it.

[Hoss]

KRMG was reporting there’s wind damage on 15th between Sheridan & Memorial.  Did you see anything on your way home?

Nope, but I just got out and got back.  Police have 15th blocked at Sheridan and Memorial, so no getting in that neighborhood unless you do it from 21st Street.  I just drove west on Admrial from the Traffic Circle to Sheridan, down to 21st, back up 21st to Memorial and up Memorial to 11th Street and home.  I saw a couple of uprooted trees up Memorial and the like.  Captain D's sign on Admiral just west of Memorial was blown over.  Big bucket trucks working on power lines just across from the Ghetto Mart on the hill.  Lots of Cox trucks, AT&T as well.  I've seen worse after storms, but I didn't go out east yet.  Since I"m off this week, I might try and get out towards Sand Springs if I can get there to see how it looks.

However, what I did see last night at work while out on the back dock was a power pole leaning over at about a 30 degree angle that would have been in between Sheridan and Memorial on 15th Street.  I'm sure that's related.

[Hoss]

I got to my glass class at Waterworks about 5:30 and was promptly sent to the basement. At one point we could hear what sounded like the roar of a tornado passing by very closely. There was no power and all we had was the light of our cell phones while we hunkered down there until about 6:45. I have a bit of hail damage on my car - not too bad though and I will wait until the storm season is over before worrying about it.

As much hail as I drove through trying to get back to work, I'm surprised mine has no hail damage.  I parked the car in the overhang of the loading docks at work up a ramp so that likely saved my bacon.  I looked pretty hard at the car this morning and no dents that I observed.  No cracked windshields, no house damage.  I consider myself lucky coming through this the way I did.  Power did finally come back on about 6:45 this morning; just got my TV/Internet/landline back about 10 minutes ago.

[AngieB]

I got to my glass class at Waterworks about 5:30 and was promptly sent to the basement. At one point we could hear what sounded like the roar of a tornado passing by very closely. There was no power and all we had was the light of our cell phones while we hunkered down there until about 6:45. I have a bit of hail damage on my car - not too bad though and I will wait until the storm season is over before worrying about it.

Turns out the gymnastics center on Charles Page that got hit was less than 2 miles away from Waterworks (Newblock Park). We probably did indeed hear the tornado passing by us.

[heironymouspasparagus]

And in Moore Oklahoma.......
People there need to get a clue.

There is something "otherworldly" bizarre about how Moore keeps getting hit in the same place every time a storm comes through.  I got sandblasted by the debris cloud there last night (posted in other thread) and it was less than 1,000 feet north of the monster that blasted the place previously.

It's as if the Weather Gods have a personal thing against the town! 

It may have to be abandoned and allowed to return to pasture!  From about 82nd street to Indian Hills Road.  It is becoming one of those things like New Orleans - why keep doing the same thing in the same place with the same destructive results?

[AquaMan]

Overshadowed by the weather was a report earlier yesterday that early in the week there was a record number of earthquakes in the area (north central OK) where the storm seemed to have started. So many that the state is warning drillers.

I remember hearing that there may be a connection between the quakes and storms. Anyone else hear or know about that?

[dbacksfan 2.0]

There is something "otherworldly" bizarre about how Moore keeps getting hit in the same place every time a storm comes through.  I got sandblasted by the debris cloud there last night (posted in other thread) and it was less than 1,000 feet north of the monster that blasted the place previously.

It's as if the Weather Gods have a personal thing against the town! 

It may have to be abandoned and allowed to return to pasture!  From about 82nd street to Indian Hills Road.  It is becoming one of those things like New Orleans - why keep doing the same thing in the same place with the same destructive results?

I wonder what the odds are of anywhere getting struck by a tornado twice are, let alone what are the odds that an area can be struck every other year over the last five years, and four times at least since 1999?

[patric]

Of course, my drunk friends were sitting at Arnie’s marveling at roofing material sailing down 2nd St, apparently.

Have I mentioned that overhead lines in a city like Tulsa are asinine?

Got to protect jobs for tree trimming corporations.

[DolfanBob]

I saw that picture on the Daily Mail. Nice backdrop of Downtown though.

[Townsend]

I saw that picture on the Daily Mail. Nice backdrop of Downtown though.

And the lack of parking