So Sad

[tbradsim1]

Watching the news I am reminded of my late friend, George Moore whose family lived in the town named after them. We were in a financial trial for 3 years, got a huge settlement but he passed a few months after receiving his money with cancer. He and I worked to hold the people in the trial together in our dark times, I cried like a baby at his furneal, now looking at the devastation in Moore it brings back all the bittersweet memories. George I"m smokeing a bowl in your memory. The old cajun

 

[cortezattic]

I just heard on the morning news about the tornado that wiped out the town. Tragic.

 

[misu]

The news is devastating and I'm sorry for your loss OC. My prayers for you are for peace and comfort.

 

[trailspike48]

I am saddened to hear this news. My thoughts will be with you Bradley, and the people of Moore.

 

[puffy]

I don't know if it's just because the media reports more on them ,but it seems like we hear of more and more of these disasters.I can't even imagine what these people are going through.I just hope they get the help they should get.

 

[teufelhund]

Nature is just unbelievable sometimes... I've been through so many hurricanes, tornados and earthquakes and been to sites afterward for relief or humanitarian missions that it all just seems commonplace until something like this or Katrina or Joplin. I'm just so glad that we always band together to assist those in need. It's just a shame that it's always something like this and not on an everyday basis. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

 

[mso489]

When I was watching the news last night, my head told me that the fatality count was on its way up. It was 51 at

that point. But my heart kept saying, but maybe it is an over-count and it won't be that many. This morning, they

did find that at least at that time, the count was back down in the 20's. Which is a horror for the victims, their

families, the community, and all of us. But at least there aren't 30 others. Things aren't settled yet. I'm hoping

the fatalities stay relatively low. How anyone survived that vast grinder with its infinite power, I cannot imagine.

We had a tornado here in the 1980s that shaved off whole walls of apartment houses and leveled a big box store.

I think there were two fatalities. Amazing anyone survives. That's just raw chaotic power.

 

[numbersix]

Sorry to hear it Bradley. The devastation over there is incredible, very sad.

 

[kashmir]

This is exceedingly tragic. Communities in tornado alleys must build out of cement and rebar, and not rely on wood frame sheet rock constructions, as are so common in this country. Never ceases to amaze me how flimsy these structures are in the face if 200 mph winds, hurricanes, and fires. Perhaps the government could help subsidize more solid above ground constructions. Subterranean is good, but subject to flooding, as we tragically saw in the elementary school. My heart goes out to the families.

 

[igloo]

Watch these people band together and start a clean up of their own ,long before long before FEMA shows up .Bless all of them .

 

[gwtwdbss]

Very sad indeed.