Kansas tornado

[Petro-Sooner]

I was watching the news this morning about the tornado that hit in Kansas last night. They were interviewing one of the towns officials. He was talking about all the aid that was coming in and was thanking everyone that helping in this time of need. But what caught my attention was when he said that it will be hard to rebuild over time but at some point WE as a COMMUNITY are going to have to pull our selves up by the boot straps and go on. Just shows you the differences in people from the midwest compared to other parts of the country.

[Flagstaffsooner]

Yup. Good people, unlike the the welfare crackheads of NO.

[Petro-Sooner]

Kinda what I was thinking.

[Newbomb Turk]

that poor town was hammered. They got more crap headed their way right now.

[KStatePike]

I think like 95% of the town was destroyed.

[Flagstaffsooner]

I think like 95% of the town was destroyed.God Bless those people.

And I was bent to wake up to snow this morning.:O

[Tailwind]

Prayers for those poor folks!

[oumartin]

Greensburg kansas. home of the largest handdug well.
That is also close to Hoisington kansas. that town was wiped out by a tornado in 2001.

[Widescreen]

They definitely need our prayers.

[Salt City Sooner]

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/keyframe04.jpg

They said from the aerial views that it was a mile wide at times.

[olevetonahill]

Dayum
In on the prayer thing .

[Sooner98]

Greensburg kansas. home of the largest handdug well.


Here's what's left of it:

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornado/images/050507tornado_mb11.jpg

[Salt City Sooner]

Per the city manager in a press conference a couple of hours ago, the well itself is fine. The buildings on & around it, well, not so much to say the least.

[KStatePike]

That's gotta be pretty close to an F5, isn't it?

[Penguin]

Whew! Thank God the well is OK.

[GottaHavePride]

That's gotta be pretty close to an F5, isn't it?

Depends on windspeeds, which are not necessarily related to the size of the tornado.

And if it was a mile wide it was probably about the size of the one that knocked over Andover, KS, back in the mid-90s.

Or the one that flattened Hesston a couple of years before that.

Or that other one that flattened Hesston again right after they rebuilt from the other one.

[SoonerStormchaser]

Then you've got dip****s like Reed Timmer who get as close to the tornadoes as they can just to sell the footage of all this destruction for megabucks.

People like him are gawdamn bastards!

[KABOOKIE]

Another smaller tornado tonight just 10 miles east of Greensburg. Damn those people are getting some bad ****.

[47straight]

Then you've got dip****s like Reed Timmer who get as close to the tornadoes as they can just to sell the footage of all this destruction for megabucks.

People like him are gawdamn bastards!

I watched a clip today (prolly infamous) of the Manchester SD tornado from a while back, and the storm chaser had gotten really close. They zoomed in on a farmhouse and it disintegrated in the wind.

On the web page for the clips, they said "I hoped that they were below ground or not home!" And then in parentheses "It has recently come to my attention that noone was home at the time."

Recently?

Why wasn't his butt checking for survivors right after? "Ooo, I hope they're okay." Hopes and wishes are for sons-of-bitches when his sorry *** could at least make sure someone wasn't bleeding to death.

I'll try to find the site again, it just cheesed me off.

[47straight]

Ha, we were talking about the same dip****!

http://www.stormgasm.com/6-24-03/6-24-03.htm

Scroll to bottom of page.

I'm off the month of August. How much gas money can I chip in to go storm chaisng with you?

[olevetonahill]

Another smaller tornado tonight just 10 miles east of Greensburg. Damn those people are getting some bad ****.
we may not agree about the 500 degree cofee . But we can agree about this , gonna keep praying for em .

[Penguin]

Please tell me that the well is OK.

[SoonerStormchaser]

Ha, we were talking about the same dip****!

http://www.stormgasm.com/6-24-03/6-24-03.htm

Scroll to bottom of page.

I'm off the month of August. How much gas money can I chip in to go storm chaisng with you?


Sorry dude...my chasing days are pretty much over...Uncle Sam owns my *** now and is teaching me how to not get lost in an airplane.

[StoopTroup]

Please tell me that the well is OK.
I've got some sort of bad news on the well and the meteorite...

The Big Well (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==487)

I saw the carnage on CNN and MSNBC this morning and saw the Big Well debris and thought..."HEY! My Parent's took me there when I was a kid!".

Anyway...the well Is covered up and the tornado took the meteorite somewhere....

Sad....

I hope they are able to fix their town and recover....


A mile-wide tornado destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas, on May 4, 2007. The latest report is that at least nine people died and 75% of the town was flattened. Among its property casualties were the World's Largest Pallasite Meteorite and the World's Largest Hand-Dug Well, an Odd Couple attraction on the flatlands of the Sunflower State.
They were favorites of ours for their adjectival fame -- there are bigger meteorites and deeper wells, but none exactly like them that were bigger or deeper -- and for their buddy-buddy bundling.



http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ks/KSGREwell_mw3_20.jpg

[StoopTroup]

http://drilshop.com/hallfame/cardwel1.gif

[Okla-homey]

proving yet again the good Lord looks out for children, fools and drunks, the ONLY building in Greensburg undamaged was the only bar in town.

[Newbomb Turk]

proving yet again the good Lord looks out for children, fools and drunks, the ONLY building in Greensburg undamaged was the only bar in town.

Them peoples are going to need a few drinks.

[Cam]

When my wife and I saw the reports, we both said "oh ****". We've driven thru there 100's of times on Hwy 54 from Wichita to the family farm and back. We stopped there over Christmas so the kids could hit the head.

This photo of Hwy 54 thru the middle of town just blows my mind.
http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornado/images/050507tornado_mb9.jpg

[Cam]

Wow.

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/images/_MG_0319.jpg

[oumartin]

I put an entire slideshow on the lets gripe about the weather coverage thread.

[Salt City Sooner]

This is getting a bit ridiculous, not to mention too close for comfort. We just had one clip the northwest part of town.

[oumartin]

Glad you are okay Salt!

[Cam]

This is getting a bit ridiculous, not to mention too close for comfort. We just had one clip the northwest part of town.
Might want to hang out in the basement the rest of the night.

[StoopTroup]

My Grandparent's lived in Pratt, KS when I was a kid.

I have great memories of going to Dodge City, Greenburg, Pratt...

I learned to ride a horse in Pratt and saw my 1st staged gunfight in Dodge City...

I don't remember the meteorite but the Big Well I remember vividly.

I hope they rebuild it and I hope they find the meteorite so I can someday take my kids there...

My prayers are with that community today as well as all the other towns that got hammered...

[Fugue]

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/keyframe04.jpg

They said from the aerial views that it was a mile wide at times.

After further review, 1.7 miles wide at times.

:(

[Osce0la]

Wow.

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/images/_MG_0319.jpg
Unbelieveable...This reminds me of the F5 that ripped Oak Grove, AL several years ago. That storm came directly over where we were living at the time, but luckily the tornado had lifted. Had it stayed on the ground it would've destroyed Birmingham, AL...

Thoughts and prayers go out to these people. My wife has cousins that survived the Oak Grove tornado and they can not stand the sound of thunder to this day.

[jk the sooner fan]

205mph winds...........wow, just........wow

[KABOOKIE]

OK. So WTF is an EF-5 tornado? Is that "E" mean Extreme or, sumthin? :texan:

[soonerboomer93]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_Scale

[Salt City Sooner]

Enhanced Fujita scale. 5 (winds in excess of 200 MPH) is the highest a tornado can be measured. The scale was actually revised due in part to the Moore tornado of '99:


"While the Super Outbreak of tornadoes was the spring board for the F-Scale, it was the Jarrell, TX tornado of May 27, 1997 and the Oklahoma City/Moore, OK tornado of May 3, 1999 that brought to the forefront the problem that maybe the wind estimates were too high in the F-Scale. Meteorologists, Emergency Managers and Engineers convened on Moore, OK to study the weaknesses in the structures destroyed by the tornado of May 3, 1999. The findings can be found in the document FEMA 342, Building Assessment Report, Midwest Tornadoes of May 3, 1999, Observations, Recommendations and Technical Guidance. That document can be found here. Engineers claim that many homes are rated to withstand winds to 100 mph. Therefore, the question was raised that if a tornado has over 200 mph winds, how can the structure reveal this estimate when much of it is gone?"

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/