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| This is one of the twisters that we photographed forming over our house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday May 3rd 1999 started out like many others in Oklahoma, quiet and uneventfull. By midafternoon storm clouds were building in the southwest. Soon things started to take on a much more serious feel. The clouds started to look dangerous with wall clouds forming and a hugh lowering. Normally we are not afraid of storms but do have a respect for what they are capable of. But this one seemed different somehow. As we were soon to find out it would be different. Harold does reporting, from our area, for the weather service so he was keeping a close watch on the situation. Cindy who is usually out photographing the storms was instead moveing pets and afew personal items to the cellar. Shortly after 7pm Harold yelled there was a funnel in front of the house. We headed for the basement. Luckily we received very minor damage, only to our chainlink fence and some trees removed from the pasture. Hundreds of others were not nearly as fortunate. The toronado that started in our yard increased in strenght to an F3 or F4 and took out most of the town of Dover. By the time the storms left our state: Over 50 tornados formed, in size all the way to an F5. 44 people lost their lives 8,000 homes totally distroyed 3,000 to 4,000 homes with major damage If it weren't for the outstanding weather forcasting service and meteorologists in Okla. there would have been a much, much higher death toll. |
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