Kinda OT..How Are Our Midwestern Friends Coping With The Tornadoes? - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

69sixpackbee · 05-09-2003, 11:37 AM

Hope all are all right. We see the news here in the west and it looks like hell!!

**Yukon Jack** · 05-09-2003, 11:51 AM

Knock on wood, the area I am in has been fine so far, there was at least one in my county last night. Supposed to be soupy this afternoon/night and that usually equals storms.

firemanchuck · 05-09-2003, 12:35 PM

THE TORNADOS PASSED US UP LAST NIGHT HERE IN TULSA, BUT MOORE OKLAHOMA GOT HIT. I KNOW THERE WERE SEVERAL INJURIES NOT SURE OF ANY FATALITIES. I HAVE NOTICED ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS IS FROM MOORE, HOPEFULLY HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE NOT HIT.

CHUCK......

**1971Stepside** · 05-09-2003, 12:41 PM

I have been promising my 5 year old I would take him camping for weeks! We are going tonight. There is a 40 percent chance of storms again, but I figure that is a good way to break him in to camping. Hopefully the tornado's are about over until the Fall. Crazy weather.

We had a pretty cold and snowy winter, a very wet and stormy spring, so I guess we are going to have a very hot and dry summer.

69sixpackbee · 05-09-2003, 01:00 PM

Man, I feel for you folks believe me! Tornadoes seem too scary. I have been in a hurricane in N. Carolina before and that was bad enough! All I can say is at least with earthquakes you won't see your new Quadcab flying across the front yard! Still they will devistate too but at least with tornadoes you can get some advanced warning and they are fairly predictable. I have been awakened by some BIG earthquakes but I would hate to have to contend with an F-5!

Yellow Cheyenne · 05-09-2003, 01:01 PM

One hit here in town, but it was 3 miles from my home and 1 mile from work. No serious injuries, but did tear some roofs off of some apartment buildings and tossed a couple of vehicles around. We had pretty decent warning that the storm system was heading our way. First time in 15 years of living here that I went to a friends house with a basement. If it had continued to track the direction that it was heading, it would have come right over my home. Glad it changed!

project1971 · 05-14-2003, 11:14 AM

I live in the south okc/moore area and it touched down about 200 yards from my new house!! just lost power for little over a day but no damage to house or projects thanks goodness!! the one that hit the next night hit less then a mile from my old house in Edmond! thinking of leaving state all together!!

05-09-2003, 11:37 AM	#1
69sixpackbee Registered User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Sabinal, Texas Posts: 1,706	Kinda OT..How Are Our Midwestern Friends Coping With The Tornadoes? Hope all are all right. We see the news here in the west and it looks like hell!!

05-09-2003, 11:51 AM	#2
Yukon Jack Post Whore Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Rose Hill, KS, USA Posts: 12,686	Knock on wood, the area I am in has been fine so far, there was at least one in my county last night. Supposed to be soupy this afternoon/night and that usually equals storms. __________________ 1970 Blazer with a 400 sbc and 4" lift 1980 Pontiac Trans Am, 455 Oldsmobile 2012 Kawasaki Concours 14

05-09-2003, 12:35 PM	#3
firemanchuck FightingFire Saving Lives Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Posts: 65	bad weather THE TORNADOS PASSED US UP LAST NIGHT HERE IN TULSA, BUT MOORE OKLAHOMA GOT HIT. I KNOW THERE WERE SEVERAL INJURIES NOT SURE OF ANY FATALITIES. I HAVE NOTICED ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS IS FROM MOORE, HOPEFULLY HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE NOT HIT. CHUCK......

05-09-2003, 12:41 PM	#4
1971Stepside Almost Satisfied Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 2,932	I have been promising my 5 year old I would take him camping for weeks! We are going tonight. There is a 40 percent chance of storms again, but I figure that is a good way to break him in to camping. Hopefully the tornado's are about over until the Fall. Crazy weather. We had a pretty cold and snowy winter, a very wet and stormy spring, so I guess we are going to have a very hot and dry summer. __________________ 1971 C10 Stepside. LSx 6.0 with BTR Stage IV, Speed Engineering Headers, 4L80e transmission w/3200 Circle-D Stall. 3.73. Posi. Purchased this truck when I was 17. I started the rebuild (or take apart) in 1993. I have drug it around all over the country in pieces. Finally back on the road in 2021. "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far."

05-09-2003, 01:01 PM	#6
Yellow Cheyenne Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Eastern Kansas Posts: 488	One hit here in town, but it was 3 miles from my home and 1 mile from work. No serious injuries, but did tear some roofs off of some apartment buildings and tossed a couple of vehicles around. We had pretty decent warning that the storm system was heading our way. First time in 15 years of living here that I went to a friends house with a basement. If it had continued to track the direction that it was heading, it would have come right over my home. Glad it changed! __________________ '72 Cheyenne. AC, PS, PB, Rear slider window, tilt. Light yellow (grapefruit yellow according to new sales literature from '72) '56 Chevy short step V-8 (My dad bought it new!!) '70 Olds 442 convertible '70 Olds Rallye 350

05-09-2003, 01:00 PM	#5
69sixpackbee Registered User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Sabinal, Texas Posts: 1,706	Man, I feel for you folks believe me! Tornadoes seem too scary. I have been in a hurricane in N. Carolina before and that was bad enough! All I can say is at least with earthquakes you won't see your new Quadcab flying across the front yard! Still they will devistate too but at least with tornadoes you can get some advanced warning and they are fairly predictable. I have been awakened by some BIG earthquakes but I would hate to have to contend with an F-5!

05-14-2003, 11:14 AM	#7
project1971 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 605	I live in the south okc/moore area and it touched down about 200 yards from my new house!! just lost power for little over a day but no damage to house or projects thanks goodness!! the one that hit the next night hit less then a mile from my old house in Edmond! thinking of leaving state all together!! __________________ 2008 Ford FX2 Screw 1971 C10 project in shop now! 2004 Pontiac Grandam (wifes) 2000 Cavalier z24 (gas saver)

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