I'm not sure how the Okies keep on keeping on. My son was in Norman when the mile wide tornado went through Moore several years back while he worked at OU. We didn't get in contact with him until several hours after that big tornado -- and he didn't even know about it! I visited several weeks later. Driving from Norman, through Moore, into OK city, it looked like someone had cleared a mile-wide right-of-way as far as one could see, west to east.
Now he lives in Edmond, and is some kind of executive director at the University of Central Oklahoma. Housing and security fall under his domain. He just tells the students and staff to take appropriate cover, which they are apparently well accustomed to doing. Yeesh!
When we talked to him yesterday after the Shawnee tornadoes, he and his wife just don't see these any different than my wife and I see thunderstorms or snow storms. He and his bride were at home yesterday when they got the warnings. He said they just went into their shelter under the garage floor for about 20 minutes. About two years ago a tornado went through their neighborhood destroying the house across the street, but only damaging the gate on their backyard fence. I think it was last year that a very large wildfire burned to within a few hundred feet of the back of their house!
I'm glad I live where I do. And, I pray for the souls who live where big tornadoes come through on a regular basis.
Let's hope for good news out of Moore.
