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[Puggywuggy]

I'm so very sorry to hear about these tornadoes and terrifyingly strong winds!!! Praying everyone will be safe💟

[Lilysmom1]

@SilleeMee , wow.  It's scary because there seems no way to prepare for these things.

[Scorpio1971]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Scorpio1971 wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

Oklahoma is under the highest level of alert and a PDS-particularly dangerous situation.  Highest level warning sinc 2019.  Things are closing down and everyone is really worried about the potential for huge hail and lots of potentially strong and long track tornadoes. 

If you want to see the area, look at the NWS Convective Outlook maps for today.  

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@Sooner   I know someone in Norman, OK.  They have a TORCON 9 for that area the last I heard...90% risk of tornado in that & surrounding areas. 😢   

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@Scorpio1971 Yes and so far it hasn't gotten really wound up yet, but the threat goes up as we go into the evening they are saying.  

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@Sooner 

Fortunately not in her area last night but other areas were hit.  Very sad.  I could not live anywhere in those areas under terrible tornado threats for months every year.  I am on east coast, less than 5 miles from major N.E. city, and we got hit with a fluke tornado 10 years ago this coming July.  Was EF2 with 120mph winds.  Never saw it, never warned because we don't have sirens for that, no TV or cell phone warnings, meteorologists never saw it because it spun up after radar loop, was rain wrapped, and went right up our main street from one end to the other about 3 miles before it went into the marsh on road heading through 2 miles of tidal marshland.  Was over in 2½ minutes.  All I can remember is heavy winds, fog like look outside, my trees falling down, rain pushing in through window frames where they were set into the wall for the window opening, and hearing the horrible thuds of things hitting house.  My poor little dog hunkered down in his bed like dead weight, but yet he was not afraid of fireworks or thunder, but he was afraid of what was happening & would not move to get out of that bed, and would not let me lift him because he was like deadweight, so we never had chance to go downstairs.  Hope I never have to go through that again.  I will live in area of blizzards and cold, occassional hurricane roaring up east coast, high expenses, urban area, but not where tornado threats are so prevalent.  Hoping everyone stays safe out there today!

[Sooner]

@Scorpio1971 I am so sorry you had to experience that.  I am a tornado survivor and in truth, if I could move I would in a heartbeat.  Since second grade I've lived with this fear and I dread spring every year.  May is THE month!

Take care, hope your spring is all it should be and thanks for the thoughts!  Close call last night but we are fine and today is beautiful!

[Scooby Doo]

We are in the Sprinter season.  Can't make up it's mind between Spring and Winter.

last week it was 75 degrees.  Sunday it rained hard.  Monday it snowed.  Supposed to be in the 50's the rest of this week.  My garden flowers and veggies are waiting in the garage to be planted.

[Scorpio1971]

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@Sooner wrote:

@Scorpio1971 I am so sorry you had to experience that.  I am a tornado survivor and in truth, if I could move I would in a heartbeat.  Since second grade I've lived with this fear and I dread spring every year.  May is THE month!

Take care, hope your spring is all it should be and thanks for the thoughts!  Close call last night but we are fine and today is beautiful!

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@Sooner  glad to hear you had no problems.  Unfortunately others were not as lucky from news & weather reports of past couple days.  Sorry to hear you had an experience also.  I still cringe whenever we have storms in the summer.  Ours was at the end of July in 2014 at 9:30am.  Weather was just so weird that morning, very humid and cloudy.  Summer seems to be the time for tornadoes in N.E. now that climate change has gotten worse.  We never had as many tornadoes or warnings like we have been having in this area these past 10 years.

Hoping you enjoy your spring also & the weather calms down for you and in other areas too.  We got remnants of your bad weather from a couple days ago here yesterday and now it is beautiful today, going to be about 60° along coast line and partly cloudy where I am.  That is the glory of living along coastline in summer, we get cooler temps than inland!