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Post by workingclassdog on May 28, 2024 18:32:12 GMT
My mom is in Claremore OK and over the weekend the town got hit. The house was just inches from a tree landing on their roof. It just missed the house. Huge tree. They will probably have to have their back porch fixed/replaced though. She could see the limbs right next to her bathroom windows. Literally just missed breaking in the windows. Lots of limb losses on her other trees. They are thinking they might have those taken out as well since they are big and leaning towards the house anyways. I guess it will all be up to insurance on what they will do.
My mom is 84 and quite healthy but she is 84 and so is her husband. The neighbors have been awesome and helping them clear out the debris.
There was a church that looks like it is about done with (the roof is gone) and the new courthouse got it. Not sure of that damage. A campground got it pretty bad too. I believe a few houses got demolished but all in all it could have been much worse. A town next door had 2 people killed.
My mom is pretty scared of tornados. She is in her shelter without a second thought. They had a shelter put in their garage about five years ago. It's been so nice for her not to have to worry about taking cover. As long as she has her little room, she feels much better.
I been looking at tornados and it seems like a very very active year for them. Maybe because people are just filming more, but there is some crazy videos. And I am not one to go and duck for cover, I'm the idiot looking for them.. but these people are on a whole other level.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on May 28, 2024 18:34:46 GMT
Sorry to hear your mom had damage but thankfully it wasn’t worse. I bet her storm shelter does give her some reassurance.
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Post by littlemama on May 28, 2024 18:40:11 GMT
The neighborhood that dh's cousin lives in in TX was his by at least strong winds (they said tornado, but I dont see any confirmation of that). They are in Mexico, where we are so of course they are very concerned.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on May 28, 2024 18:46:25 GMT
Glad your mom is okay. I don't live where there are tornados but, I think I would be super scared. I think it might be a good idea to have those trees looked at in case of another tornado.
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Post by Lexica on May 28, 2024 19:04:42 GMT
I cannot imagine living in an area where tornados are a regular thing. Of course, I lived in California with earthquakes, so there is always something to be aware of in most states. And while in my Southern California home, we actually did have a tornado come through my city one winter. My house and fences sustained minor damages, none making my home unlivable. But a few streets away the tornado tore the roof off of a bedroom where the family’s newborn had been sleeping in his crib. The family was eating dinner when the infant woke and the mother went and got him, sitting him in his little carrier next to her at the table. A minute later, the tornado hit the back of their house, sucking the roof off the baby’s bedroom and pulling the furniture up and out. Had their baby slept just a little bit longer, it would have been horrible for that family. That was the only tornado I have ever experienced and that was enough for me. I can absolutely understand your mom wanting the security of that shelter to go to. I am glad their home didn’t receive any major damage.
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Post by oh yvonne on May 28, 2024 19:07:13 GMT
omg how scary for your mom! I'm so glad to hear she came out relatively unscathed!
My Tiktok feed has a bunch of tornado videos, they terrify and fascinate me at the same time, and yeah, they are predicting a rough season for them. The monster ones that take out entire cities are so so scary.
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Post by mom on May 28, 2024 19:13:11 GMT
Oh wow! Glad your mom is ok.
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Post by librarylady on May 28, 2024 19:34:59 GMT
Glad her damage was little compared to the rest of Clamore. I support her decision to have a safe room.
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Post by workingclassdog on May 28, 2024 19:57:54 GMT
I cannot imagine living in an area where tornados are a regular thing. Of course, I lived in California with earthquakes, so there is always something to be aware of in most states. And while in my Southern California home, we actually did have a tornado come through my city one winter. My house and fences sustained minor damages, none making my home unlivable. But a few streets away the tornado tore the roof off of a bedroom where the family’s newborn had been sleeping in his crib. The family was eating dinner when the infant woke and the mother went and got him, sitting him in his little carrier next to her at the table. A minute later, the tornado hit the back of their house, sucking the roof off the baby’s bedroom and pulling the furniture up and out. Had their baby slept just a little bit longer, it would have been horrible for that family. That was the only tornado I have ever experienced and that was enough for me. I can absolutely understand your mom wanting the security of that shelter to go to. I am glad their home didn’t receive any major damage. I have lived in tornado areas most of my life. I have lived in California for a bit and what scares me way more than tornados is earthquakes. I feel like with a tornado you usually have a warning before it gets to close. Earthquakes, nada. I was in two of them when I lived there and scared the beegeezes out of me. The worst tornado was at my grandma's and the scary part for me was going into the scary basement. Ugggg even my mom and I talked about that. It was a dark cellar kind. I hated that room. HATED it. That tornado smashed our car in half, took out a tree and chimney. Flooded the first story of the house. |
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Post by Lexica on May 28, 2024 21:15:54 GMT
I cannot imagine living in an area where tornados are a regular thing. Of course, I lived in California with earthquakes, so there is always something to be aware of in most states. And while in my Southern California home, we actually did have a tornado come through my city one winter. My house and fences sustained minor damages, none making my home unlivable. But a few streets away the tornado tore the roof off of a bedroom where the family’s newborn had been sleeping in his crib. The family was eating dinner when the infant woke and the mother went and got him, sitting him in his little carrier next to her at the table. A minute later, the tornado hit the back of their house, sucking the roof off the baby’s bedroom and pulling the furniture up and out. Had their baby slept just a little bit longer, it would have been horrible for that family. That was the only tornado I have ever experienced and that was enough for me. I can absolutely understand your mom wanting the security of that shelter to go to. I am glad their home didn’t receive any major damage. I have lived in tornado areas most of my life. I have lived in California for a bit and what scares me way more than tornados is earthquakes. I feel like with a tornado you usually have a warning before it gets to close. Earthquakes, nada. I was in two of them when I lived there and scared the beegeezes out of me. The worst tornado was at my grandma's and the scary part for me was going into the scary basement. Ugggg even my mom and I talked about that. It was a dark cellar kind. I hated that room. HATED it. That tornado smashed our car in half, took out a tree and chimney. Flooded the first story of the house. When you experienced the earthquakes in California, were you close to the epicenter or did your home get any damage to it? I lived there for 68 years and while I experienced many quakes during that time, I never had any damage to anything. Sometimes local stores had items that fell off shelves, but my home never had anything actually break. I had a couple of things fall off shelves, but nothing heavy and nothing was damaged. I did use that putty stuff under everything heavy on shelves and even my coffee tables though, so I am sure that is what kept my stuff from being jiggled off the edge. The only damage my house received was during that tornado. I lost all my fencing, patio furniture, roof tiles, and tree branches. And it had been raining for days prior to the tornado and my garage wall must have gotten wet well into the wall because the tornado shook the house and caused the set of cabinets that were mounted up high on the garage wall to come off. The insurance adjuster said he felt the rain had soaked the wall enough to reach where the screws were and when the shaking occurred, down they went, right into my car too, causing damage to the hood and cracking my windshield. And one of the cabinets had well over $1,700 worth of liquor bottles in it. My ex was a drinker and very big on entertaining. When he moved out, he left the booze. I had asked him to come get it, but he always had an excuse as to why it wasn’t a good day to do so. He admitted later that he thought I would eventually let him move back home so why bother moving the liquor. There were so many bottles of all kinds of liquor. I do wish I had drank the Dom Perignon though. I had no idea how expensive most of them were and I guess some had been gifts from clients that were pricy. I had already given several bottles away to neighbors too. I moved them to a cabinet in the garage since I could use the cabinet in the kitchen for my baking pan collection instead. My garage smelled like an old drunk for months and months after I got it all cleaned up. I had to take a picture of each label and go to the liquor store to have them help me estimate the value of what was lost. I told the adjuster that I had no idea how full each bottle was so he told me to get quotes for full bottles. I made much better use of that insurance money than I ever would have with the alcohol. So in my experience, earthquakes were interesting, but tornados caused damage. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on May 28, 2024 22:41:04 GMT
I’m glad she is ok! Several of my extended family members live in Greenfield, IA where they also had a tornado last week. It’s so scary and so much for them to deal with. It does seem like there have been more tornados this year than usual.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 29, 2024 12:25:27 GMT
Glad your mom is ok and that her property is reasonably ok too!
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Post by iowgirl on May 29, 2024 14:14:13 GMT
I been looking at tornados and it seems like a very very active year for them. Maybe because people are just filming more, but there is some crazy videos. And I am not one to go and duck for cover, I'm the idiot looking for them.. but these people are on a whole other level. It is a more active year for us all around. The last couple years have been very mild springs - not much wind, tornados or RAIN. It has been so dry for the last several years that we were really hurting. We have had quite a bit of rain, along with the more stormy weather. I know it has a lot to do with how the jet stream is set up. For the first time in many years I heard DH exclaim "F-ing RAIN! We are still trying to get the last of the crops planted. It's not a crisis yet, and we will finish soon, as we have a big planter and he can slam a lot of acres in a day. Silver lining is we have everything that is planted, sprayed. We have a giant sprayer too, so he can get the herbicide on, on days that it is not fit to plant. The worst tornado was at my grandma's and the scary part for me was going into the scary basement. Yep. My DH told me to go to the 'coal room' if I ever needed to take shelter. Sir, respectfully, I'll take my chances with that tornado. LOL The rest of the basement isn't bad, but I am terrified of that coal room. It would be the safest and easiest to escape from though. I’m glad she is ok! Several of my extended family members live in Greenfield, IA where they also had a tornado last week. It’s so scary and so much for them to deal with. It does seem like there have been more tornados this year than usual. Oh man, that Greenfield tornado was terrible. I was watching the weather that day. We just got rain and big wind, but it could have easily been us - no too far away, south east. The big Omaha tornado that continued into Iowa was south west of us. We have had a few tornados hit us - small ones. Took some outbuildings at our place and the main farm place different times. It's scary! I am NOT a fan of storm chasers. There are too many that are just in a fever to get that footage. They drive like maniacs. A few years ago they descended on us and were driving down country dirt roads at HIGH rates of speed. Intersections are not signed - so no stop/yeild at most. Plus the corn grows so tall you can not see anything coming. So you drive slower - stop and peep out those intersections. Those douche bags were just BLASTING down those roads. Lucky SO lucky they didn't kill anyone. I lost all respect. If they touch my property - I'm having them arrested. There are getting to be so many 'weather experts' on social media. Some are just dumb. Some do know their stuff and there are a few that I highly respect. If you are in a weather situation - check out Ryan Hall - Ryan Hall Y'all on social media. He is in Kentucky, but he has the best step by step warnings I have ever seen. Far better than our local (local as in Des Moines - 2.5 hours away) TV weather. During the Greenfield tornado - he was warning people by naming streets and business where the tornado was headed. Down to the buildings! Oh my gosh! There was a storm that went through my area and he was naming streets/intersections to know where it was headed (our country roads have street names/numbers. The local DSM station only covered how that storm might be affecting the 'metro' in a hour or so. He also gets donations and gets help to the storm damaged areas fast - he coordinates with law enforcement/EMS to find out what is needed and gets it to that area (not bottled water, ugh). He has different response teams and has one in my area. |
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