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Wichita schools first in nation with safe rooms for storms
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe tornado in Moore, Oklahoma has many parents in Wichita worried about their child's safety at school. Wichita is actually the first district in the nation to build safe rooms inside of schools. The project started at Jefferson elementary in 2000,...Tags: FEMA, Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Tornadoes
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Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
The principal’s voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up. But before all of the youngsters could get...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Students, Tornadoes, Briarwood
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Honduras se solidariza con EE.UU. por devastador tornado en Oklahoma
Tegucigalpa, 21 may (EFE).- Honduras expresó hoy "su solidaridad con el pueblo y el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, afectado por un devastador tornado en Oklahoma" que dejó al menos 24 muertos, más de 200 heridos e incalculables pérdidas materiales. La...Tags: Honduras, Tornadoes, Barack Obama
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Central Florida tornado victims express sympathy for Oklahoma twister survivors
Central Florida residents have been transfixed by coverage of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., but Becky Nolan can't watch the images of debris and tear-stricken faces. It's too painful for Nolan, whose husband and younger son died in a...
Tags: Kissimmee, Lake County (Florida), House Building, Tornadoes
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Oklahoma tornado: Search, cleanup continue; rebuilding ahead
MOORE, Okla. — State and local officials vowed Tuesday to rebuild this bereft suburb, shattered by a tornado that brought death and massive destruction, even as they fought poor weather to push ahead with rescue efforts. In a day marked by...
Tags: National Weather Service, FEMA, Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Weather Warnings, Tornadoes
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Orlando area group packs thousands of meals for Oklahoma tornado victims
Working to the pulsing beat of dance music, dozens of volunteers filled thousands of small plastic bags with lentils, rice and dehydrated vegetables at the Feeding Children Everywhere warehouse in Longwood Tuesday night. When mixed with water, each...
Tags: Banking, Bank of America Corp., Campbell (Osceola, Florida), Tornadoes, Judaism
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Powerful tornado slams Moore, Okla.
FrameworkA tornado more than a mile with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. Hardest hit was the city of Moore. Officials... -
Oklahoma tornado that killed 24 was EF5, officials say
ReutersMOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on Tuesday after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, wiping out whole blocks of homes and killing at...Tags: National Weather Service, Rentals, Tornadoes, MSNBC (tv network), White House
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More L.A. firefighters sent to areas hit by Oklahoma tornado
Two Los Angeles County Fire Department captains have been dispatched with specialized rescue teams to areas ravaged by a tornado that left a 20-mile-long swath of death and destruction in Oklahoma, officials said Tuesday afternoon. One captain is...Tags: Fires, FEMA, Los Angeles Fire Department, Tornadoes
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What is the Fujita scale?
Reuters(Reuters) - The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 200 miles per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale....Tags: National Weather Service, University of Chicago, Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Passenger Cars, House Building
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Newtown And Oklahoma City: A School Day, A Sudden Loss Of Young Lives, A Common Bond
The Hartford CourantBy Tuesday morning, they began collecting donations in town offices for families ravaged by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Newtown, a universe away from Oklahoma City, feels the pain of the destruction more deeply, more intimately. Here, they know, because they...Tags: Interior Policy, Human Interest, Sandy Hook Promise, Politics, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Storm Team 12 Chaser reflects on Oklahoma tornado
Storm Team 12 Chaser Scott Roberts has seen a few tornadoes during his career, and like any other, he won't soon forget the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma. "Standing there and looking up at it and seeing it overcome the right hand side of my...
Tags: Tornadoes, Briarwood
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