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| Oklahoma hit with deadly storms. |
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lives lost in this week's devastating tornadoes. In the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri a deadly outbreak.
Not that I said I told you so, the junk food media has now focused on disasters. Yet again, proving that any good tragedy is ratings gold.
Natural disasters trump phony scandals. The talk of the week was Benghazi, the IRS and the Justice Department demanding the source of leaks by snooping on the Associated Press will soon be just another blip on the year's calendar.
Didn't I say that a tragedy will take the media heat off President Barack Obama?
Now a real time for outrage and sorrow. The impact of a disaster.
We learn that more than a dozen people are confirmed dead. The city of Moore, Oklahoma faced a severe outbreak of E-F4 tornadoes.
Moore, and neighboring Newcastle and Oklahoma City's south side, were devastated by an extremely intense tornado.Entire subdivisions were totally destroyed; the tornado also struck Briarwood and Plaza Towers elementary schools in Moore, while classes were still in progress. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office reports that 37 deaths have been reported so far and the death toll is expected to increase.
We don't have a strong confirmation but I am guessing it will rank right up there with Joplin, Missouri.
President Barack Obama, Republican governor Mary Fallon, and Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett were informed of the deaths of the residents.
Ironic that Republican Senators Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn voted against the disaster relief when it came to Hurricane Sandy. What happens now when it happens in their own backyard?
A state that voted only 34% for President Barack Obama in two elections now relies on him to solve the state's worst disaster in years. The same racist acting, condescending name calling, overweight, red meat, gun totting conservatives now need President Barack Obama to help in federal aid.
Probably a handful of Oklahoma conservative minded individuals who believe that federal aid is for "leeches" and "gubmint centered parasites".
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| Shawnee and Moore Oklahoma were destroyed by tornadoes. |
A rundown of what the massive outbreak of tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma leveled about two thirds of the city. Two elementary schools were destroyed, a subdivision and numerous vehicles around the Interstate 35/40/44 corridor are toss like sticks.
We'll be on this issue when more develops but as of right now the junk food media confirms that 51 people are dead.
NBC reports that crews frantically searched the wreckage and were only beginning to get a sense of the destruction. Hospitals reported several dozen injured.
“The whole city looks like a debris field,” said Mayor Glenn Lewis of the city of Moore, which appeared to be hardest hit.
At Plaza Towers Elementary School, authorities said there were casualties could not specify how many or give details. The tornado tore the roof off, and authorities kept hysterical parents back because it was too loud to hear screams for help. A teacher told NBC affiliate KFOR that she draped herself on top of six children in a bathroom to shelter them.
It was not clear how many children were trapped. Students in fourth, fifth and sixth grade were evacuated to a church, but students in lower grades had sheltered in place, KFOR reported. More than two hours after the tornado struck, several children were pulled out alive.
Emergency workers stepped gingerly around piles of wreckage left on the foundations of homes. Other people simply walked around dazed, marveling that nothing was left of their houses — and in many cases that they themselves were alive. Fires broke out in some places.
President Barack Obama pledged the full help of the federal government. Gov. Mary Fallin asked the people of Oklahoma for patience and promised: “We will bring every single resource out that we can.”
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| No longer notable. An EF-4 tornado ravishes Moore, Oklahoma. |
The tornado Monday also came one day after another cluster of storms in Oklahoma that killed two elderly men in the town of Shawnee. Tens of millions of people from Texas to the Great Lakes — an area covering 55 million people — had been warned to brace for more severe weather Monday.
The Sunday storms destroyed mobile homes, flipped trucks and sent people across 100 miles running for cover. In Kansas, a weather forecaster was forced off the air as a tornado bore down on his station.
“You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Mike Booth, the sheriff of Pottawatomie County, Okla., told The Associated Press. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour.”
Fallin declared a state of emergency for 16 counties on Sunday and added five Monday.
Please keep all those impacted by today's storm in your thoughts & prayers.#okwx
— Governor Mary Fallin (@GovMaryFallin) May 20, 2013
RT @salarmyaok: Text STORM to 80888 to donate $10 to the recovery and relief efforts in #Moore, Oklahoma.
— Governor Mary Fallin (@GovMaryFallin) May 20, 2013
MT @redcrossokc: Let others know you're okay! Critical in search/rescue efforts.#okwx safeandwell.communityos.org/cms/index.php
— Governor Mary Fallin (@GovMaryFallin) May 21, 2013
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