Xin Thành Tâm Cầu Nguyện cho tất cả dân chúng ở Oklahama.
Ít nhất 51 người chết vì cơn Tornado cấp 4
Bảo Trâm Minnesota
- Bão xoáy (twister/cyclone) dã tàn phá kinh khũng một thành
phố
nhõ Moore, Oklahoma.
- Nặng nhất là 2 trường tiễu học ..bị biến mất ..
- Cho dến nay thì có 91 người chết..trong dó kó hơn 20 trẽ em
bị tữ nạn.
- Cho dến nay, kó 233 người dang dược chữa trị tại khác
bệnh viện.
- Trận bão xoáy nầy kó chiều rộng là 2 miles, với sức gió lên
dến 200 miles/giờ. ..tạo ra một diện tích 30 miles vuông bị tàn phá ..
- Dang còn nhiều người và trẽ em mất tích.
- 8,000 người mất diện.
- Vào năm 1999, dịa diễm ni kũng dã bị bão xoáy tàn phà
và dã gay cho 36 người tữ nạn.
Trên dất Mỹ, chỗ nào cũng có người Việt sinh sống, nếu bạn
muốn dóng góp fần cứu trợ, hãy gỡi dến dây.
Matthew Trần
Forty five minutes of twister terror that left
91 dead: Seven children found drowned in school and officials fear 24 more
have perished after giant two-mile wide tornado pulverises Oklahoma
- Two entire schools
flattened in Moore, Oklahoma after
200 mph winds pulverized a 30-square-mile stretch yesterday
- At
least 91 people confirmed dead, authorities say, and at least another 233
injured in local hospitals
- More than 20 children are
among the dead, including the seven found drowned in Plaza Towers
- Children were told to hold on to the walls, while
teachers shielding the students with their bodies
-
Hundreds of homes wiped out and more than 8,000 people left without power
- The devastating tornado was
larger than 1999 storm in the area that left 36 people decade
PUBLISHED: 15:17 EST, 20 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:27 EST,
21 May 2013
A desperate search is
underway for survivors after a giant two-mile wide tornado roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma
leaving 91 dead, including seven children who drowned in a pool of water at
their school.
Plaza Towers
Elementary was in the direct path of the giant twister and today rescuers
were combing the debris to find 24 students who went missing after the
building took
a direct hit during 45 minutes of terror yesterday afternoon.
President Barack Obama
has declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to
supplement state and local efforts in Moore.
Another elementary
school, homes and a hospital were among the buildings leveled by the 200mph
winds leaving residents of the town of about 50,000 people stunned at the
devastation and loss of life.
Oklahoma Governor Mary
Fallin expressed her grief on behalf of her state for the parents of the
missing children, aged between five and eight, as the death toll across the
Oklahoma City suburb of Moore escalated.
'Our hearts are broken
for the parents that are wondering about the state of their children that had
been in the schools that have been hit today,' Fallin said. 'I know that
there are families wondering where their loved ones are.'
She added that
rescuers were 'looking under every single piece of debris' for the
missing.
Horror:
Teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado
destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City. The desperate search continued
overnight for two dozen children feared dead after yesterday's monstrous
tornado, which already took the lives of seven of their classmates
Shock: Two
girls stand in rubble surveying the scene of devastation following the
horrific tornado
Survivors:
A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in
Moore, Oklahoma, and passed along to rescuers
Brave:
Two boys are pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers
Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma
Lucky ones: A
young family comes out of underground bunker after the tornado to scenes of
devastation
A
boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary
School
Desperate:
A young girl is pulled from beneath the wall by rescuers as they desperately
search for more survivors at the school
Injured:
Scores of young children were hurt in the monster twister that laid waste o
the land. The walking wounded were helped to a nearby triage centre
Medical
help: A woman carries an injured child to a triage center near the Plaza
Towers Elementary School
Teachers
carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado
destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City
Heroes:
Rescue workers dig through the rubble of a collapsed wall at the Plaza Tower
Elementary School to free trapped students
The
number of children killed has not yet become clear as rescuers continue to
move the rubble overnight
Help:
A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers
Elementary School in Moore
Poignant:
The devastating, two-mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City and
wrecked havoc on the suburbs where lots of families lived
People
look through the wreckage of their neighborhood after the tornado devastated
the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday
Devastating progress
of the Oklahoma tornado is tracked in time-lapse footage...
Rescue teams, including 80 members of the National Guard and
search dogs, had reported hearing cries for help from beneath the rubble of
the flattened school but the screams reportedly stopped at around 6:30 p.m.
local time.
One
teacher told Good Morning America that her students had to stay with her for
hours until their parents could reach them. Because of the damage to the
roads, 'parents walked for miles just to get to their children,' she said.
'They were out of breath and crying but just so happy to see them.'
Block
after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars
and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.
Frantic parents rushed to Plaza Towers Elementary moments
after it was pummeled by the storm that has been given a preliminary rating
of at least EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale but they were kept back so
search teams could hear any survivors calling for help through the rubble.
The families were later taken to a nearby church where they
continued the harrowing wait for news of their children. Some, hoping their
little ones had made it out alive, posted photographs of their children on
Facebook and Twitter, desperately hoping they'd be reunited.
According to reports, a number of the 24 missing students were
located in churches and triage centers on Monday, though it's unclear how
many.
The Oklahoma medical examiner said 20 of the 91 expected to
have been killed were children. The 20 youngsters include the seven Plaza
Towers students as well as a three-month-old baby and a four-year-old child.
Another three adults were killed at a 7-Eleven.
The office had already confirmed 51 dead and had been told by
emergency services to expect 40 more bodies found in the debris, but had not
yet received them.
Also
among those killed, is a family of four with a baby near 4th St. and
Telephone Rd. in Moore. Officials said the family tried to take shelter in a
freezer.
According to KFOR, more than 233 injured residents had
flooded into emergency rooms, though these numbers continue to rise.
After the monster tornado struck, around 80 National Guard
members were deployed and first responders with dogs were drafted in to help
search the debris at Plaza Towers elementary, hoping for a miracle.
Flattened:
This aerial photo shows damage to the Plaza Towers Elementary School after
massive tornado hit Moore, south of the city
Traumatic: A
man sits down in shock in front of Plaza Towers Elementary school as seven
children are found dead in a pool of water
Worst
in memory: This detailed map of downtown Moore, Oklahoma, locates the path of
Monday's devastating tornado and compares it to the path of the 1999 tornado,
which had the most powerful winds ever recorded
This
aerial photo shows the remains of homes hit by a massive tornado in Moore,
Oklahoma, on Monday
Footage spreading
across social media captures size and destructive nature of the tornado
RAW Oklahoma
tornado vortex filmed by family sheltering in car...
RAW Oklahoma
tornado vortex travels across field
Relief:
Cindy Wilson texts to friends after her home was destroyed in the afternoon
tornado. Cindy and her husband, Staff Sgt. B. Wilson, took cover in their
home's bathtub when the tornado hit
Efforts:
Rescue workers help free one of 15 people trapped in a medical building at
the Moore hospital complex
This
aerial photo shows the remains of houses in Moore after the tornado, which
flattened entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a
direct blow on an elementary school
Rescue
workers help free one of the 15 people that were trapped at a medical
building at the Moore hospital complex
Lost:
People look for belongings after the tornado struck - President Barack Obama
has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma
A
fire burns in the Tower Plaza Addition in Moore, Oklahoma
Help:
Emergency services move a woman to a car park after she is rescued from her
home
Injured: A
nurse helps an older man that suffered a head injury, left, while another man
is taken away from the IMAX theater that was used as a triage area
Rescue
workers help free one of the 15 people that were trapped at a medical
building at the Moore hospital complex after a tornado tore through the area
Crews
used jackhammers and sledgehammers to tear away concrete, and chunks were
being thrown to the side as the workers dug.
National
Guard choppers were being used across Moore overnight to detect body heat of
survivors trapped under collapsed buildings and other rubble so they could
direct rescuers.
Devastating
aerial images taken immediately after the tornado show Plaza Towers - as well
as hundreds of homes and businesses - completely leveled with cars thrown
into the school grounds by the powerful storm.
Students
who were inside the building described clinging to the walls of the hallway
where many of them huddled during the storm as the twister battered the
school. Others cowered in closets or bathrooms to protect themselves.
One
sixth grade boy named Brady told ABC affiliate KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City that
he and other students took cover in the boys' bathroom.
'Cinderblocks
and everything collapsed on them but they were underneath so that kind of
saved them a little bit, but I mean they were trapped in there,' he said.
Frightened
third graders were being pulled from the wreckage alive this afternoon as
rescue workers passed the children down a human chain before taking them to a
triage center set up in the school's parking lot.
Staff
said there had been at least 75 people in the school of around 500 students
when the tornado hit. The 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students were taken from
the school to a church before the twister barreled through. One teacher said
she had laid on six children to protect them. It is believed another teacher
put her life at risk to cover three students and suffered serious injuries.
It is unclear whether she survived.
Taking it in:
A boy sits on the trunk of a car outside a house which has been wrecked in
the storm
Past: In May
1999 , the town of Moore was hit by a severe tornado which had the highest
winds ever recorded on Earth
Last one
standing: Dana Ulepich searches inside a room left standing at the back of
her house which was destroyed
Kay James
holds her cat as she sits in her driveway after her home was destroyed by the
tornado that hit the area on Monday
Workers
continued to dig through the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School on
Monday afternoon
Horror: Local
residents look through the debris that remains where homes once stood
Twisted metal
and debris lie in the parking lot in front of an IMAX theatre as an American
flag stands proudly in the wind
Moore police
dig through the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a
tornado in Moore
Governor
Fallin told Oklahomans to 'stay away and let the search and rescue teams and
families get in there,' referring to the pulverized school.
Many
land lines to stricken areas were down and cellphone traffic was congested.
Poor cell phone reception was making it difficult for frantic families to
connect with each other but a website Safeandwell.com has been set up to
assist people who fear for their loved ones.
A
reporter said they asked a paramedic about the injured at Plaza Towers, and
the medic 'just shook his head'.
Briarwood
Elementary was also entirely flattened after staff sent an email to parents
at 2.45pm to say that the school was on lockdown and they would be holding
the children at the campus until the storm had passed. At 5pm local time,
authorities said all the children were accounted for.
A
meteorologist for KFOR branded the aftermath 'the worst tornado damage in the
history of the world'.
As
news of the devastating tornado spread the Queen today said she was 'deeply
saddened' by the loss of life and devastation caused by the tornado in
Oklahoma and sent her 'deepest sympathies' to all those whose lives have been
affected.
Speaking
outside Norman Regional Hospital Ninia Lay, 48, said she huddled in a closet
through two storm alerts and the tornado hit on the third.
'I
was hiding in the closet and I heard something like a train coming,' she said
under skies still flashing with lightning. The house was flattened and Lay
was buried in the rubble for two hours until her husband Kevin, 50, and
rescuers dug her out.
'I
thank God for my cell phone, I called me husband for help.'
Her
daughter Catherine, seven, a first-grader at Plaza Towers Elementary School,
took shelter with classmates and teachers in a bathroom when the tornado hit
and destroyed the school. She escaped with scrapes and cuts.
Decimated: A
truck lays damaged in a field near the Moore Medical Center, background,
after a tornado moves through Moore
A damaged
police car in the midst of debris from the violent storm that lasted 45
minutes
Force: The
upturned cars show the full force of the storm which ripped through the
suburbs
Chaos: Dozen
of cars piled up on top of each other in the parking lot of Moore Hospital
Site: A map
shows where the worst tornado damage was sustained in Moore, Oklahoma on
Monday. The red triangles show the areas hit
Paths: This
map shows the paths of tornadoes over the years in the Moore, Oklahoma area,
with red showing the May 3rd, 1999 tornado path; blue the May 8th, 2003
tornado path and green the May 20th, 2013 tornado path You can see how a
portion of the 2013 storm (green) overlaps the 1999 storm (red), which was an
F5 tornado that did around 1.1 billion dollars in damage. 36 people died in
that storm and 8,000 homes were badly damaged or destroyed.
A Moore
resident took a picture of the monstrous twister as it barreled towards the
heavily-populated Oklahoma City suburb
A monstrous
tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire
neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing
a direct blow on an elementary school
The EF-4 tornado
as it approached the town of Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, on May 20
THE SCIENCE BEHIND
THE STORM: HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
The
severe thunderstorms that produce tornadoes form where cold dry air meets
warm moist tropical air.
The
wind coming into the storm starts to swirl and forms a funnel. The air in the
funnel spins faster and faster and creates a very low pressure area which
sucks more air - and objects on the ground into it.
Most
tornadoes spin cyclonically (counter-clockwise) in the Northern hemisphere.
The
twisters are most common in a section of the U.S. called Tornado Alley, with
most forming in the months of April and May.
The
vortex of winds varies in size and shape, and can be hundreds of meters wide.
There
are, on average, 1,300 tornadoes each year in the United States, which have
caused an average of 65 deaths annually in recent years.
Conditions
on the ground do not generally affect the power of a tornado, including
terrain and structures like buildings.
Moore,
Oklahoma is within the boundaries of Tornado Alley, which includes northern
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The
city was the site of another devastating tornado that tore through the town
in 1999.
Homes have been reduced to piles of trash, with at least 8,000
people without power. Experts warned that there could be multiple casualties
after the storm, which had traveled east at around 160mph.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson warned that downed
power lines and open gas lines posed a risk in the aftermath of the system.
A KFOR reporter says that doctors told her of looting at the
hospital damaged by the tornado.
In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen
marching slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the
community, the twister scattered shards of wood, pieces of insulation,
awnings, shingles and glass all over the streets.
Volunteers and first responders raced to search the debris for
survivors.
Chris Calvert saw the menacing tornado from about a mile away.
'I was close enough to hear it,' he said. 'It was just a low
roar, and you could see the debris, like pieces of shingles and insulation
and stuff like that, rotating around it.'
Even though his subdivision is a mile from the tornado's path,
it was still covered with debris. He found a picture of a small girl on Santa
Claus' lap in his yard.
'The
whole city looks like a debris field,' Glenn Lewis, the mayor of Moore, told
NBC.
'It
looks like we have lost our hospital. I drove by there a while ago and it's
pretty much destroyed,' Lewis said.
James Rushing, who lives across the street from Plaza Towers
Elementary School heard reports of the approaching tornado and ran to the
school, where his 5-year-old foster son, Aiden, attends classes. Rushing
believed he would be safer there.
'About two minutes after I got there, the school started
coming apart,' he said.
Douglas Sherman drove two blocks from his home to help rescue
survivors.
'Just having those kids trapped in that school, that really
turns the table on a lot of things,' he said.
Tiffany Thronesberry said she got an alarming call from her
mother, Barbara Jarrell, after the tornado.
'I got a phone call from her screaming, "Help! Help! I
can't breathe. My house is on top of me!"' Thronesberry said.
Thronesberry hurried to her mother's house, where first
responders had already pulled her out. Her mother was hospitalized for
treatment for cuts and bruises.
Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado, found her
dog buried alive under the rubble during her interview with CBS News.
A man with a megaphone stood near a Catholic church Monday
evening and called out the names of surviving children. Parents waited
nearby, hoping to hear their sons' and daughters' names.
Don Denton hadn't heard from his two sons since the tornado
hit the town, but the man who has endured six back surgeries and walks with a
severe limp said he walked about two miles as he searched for them.
As reports of the storm came in, Denton's 16-year-old texted
him, telling him to call.
'I was trying to call him, and I couldn't get through,' Denton
said.
Eventually, Denton said, his sons spotted him in the crowd.
They were fine, but upset to hear that their grandparents' home was
destroyed.
'God has answered my
prayers'. Elderly woman finds beloved pet dog buried in rubble
TV interview
captures moment woman uncovers beloved pet dog from...
Rescuers
recover a horse from the remains of a day care center and destroyed barns
Workers
look for victims under debris from a tornado that passed across south
Oklahoma City
Glenn
Rusk hugs his neighbor Sherie Loman outside her home north of Briarwood
Elementary School after a tornado moved through the area
A
destroyed house remains after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near
Oklahoma City
Aftermath:
Fires have also broken out at buildings after the monster storm thanks to
exposed power lines, CNN reported
KILLER STORMS: THE
DEADLIEST TORNADOES IN U.S. HISTORY
695
deaths. March 18, 1925, in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
The tri-state tornado remains the deadliest in U.S. history. It crossed from southeastern Missouri, through southern Illinois and then into southwestern Indiana. The tornado carried sheets of iron as far as 50miles away and obliterated entire towns and injured more than 2,000 people.
216
deaths. April 5, 1936, in Tupelo, Mississippi
203
deaths. April 6, 1936, in Gainesville, Georgia
The tornado outbreak over two days caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage across the region. The Tupelo tornado destroyed more than 200 homes, sweeping many into Gum Pond along with the residents. It killed whole families, including one of 13. The following day the Gainesville tornado - a double tornado event - emerged. It destroyed the Cooper Pants Factory, killing 70 workers - the highest tornado death toll from a single building in U.S. history.
181
deaths. April 9, 1947, in Woodward, Oklahoma
The Woodward tornado is the most deadly to ever strike the state of Oklahoma. It was almost two miles wide and traveled for 100 miles at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour. More than 100 blocks in Woodward were levelled and over 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed.
158
deaths. May 22, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri
The one-mile wide tornado was the third to strike the town of Joplin since 1971. More than 1,000 people were injured and almost $3billion worth of damage was caused. Local media reported that more than half of the 158 who died were killed inside their homes.
143
deaths. April 24, 1908, in Amite, Louisiana, and Purvis, Mississippi
Most of the people killed were in rural areas. Many historians believe the death toll was higher than official records state as many the deaths of many African-American may not have been properly recorded. Both the Amite and Purvis tornadoes were rated as F4 - the second strongest possible - and injured hundreds of people.
116
deaths. June 8, 1953, in Flint, Michigan
It is the deadliest tornado to strike Michigan and injured more than 800 people. The Flint tornado, which traveled at speeds of 35mph, is rated as a F5 on the Fujita scale - the strongest possible. Of the 116 people killed, all but three died on a four-mile stretch of Coldwater Road.
114
deaths. May 11, 1953 in Waco, Texas
The Waco tornado killed 22 people as it destroyed the packed Dennis Building and a 12 died in cars crushed in the street. Almost 200 businesses and factories were destroyed, causing $41.2million worth of damage. The deadly tornado spurred the development of a nationwide severe weather warnings system.
114
deaths. May 18, 1902 in Goliad, Texas
The tornado leveled churches, as well as more than 200 homes and businesses. Of those killed, 50 people died as they sought shelter in a black Methodist church in Goliad.
103
deaths. March 23, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska
The tornado struck on Easter Sunday at about 6pm, with little or no warning. It was so strong that steel train cars were later found pierced by pieces of debris from destroyed houses.
'There are so many homes in the air right now,' storm chase
Spencer Basoco told CNN of Moore. 'It's destroying everything. There's so
much debris.'
Jamie Shelton, the public information officer for Moore, had
pleaded with residents to seek shelter before the storm dissipated. 'It's
happening as we speak,' he said. 'People need to take this seriously... Take
precaution, be aware. If you're outside the area, please pray for us.'
CBS
has pulled tonight's season finale of 'Mike Molly,' which included a
storyline that involved a tornado.
It comes as yet more heartbreak for residents of Oklahoma,
after a series of deadly tornadoes barreled through Kansas and Oklahoma this
weekend, leaving a violent trail of
destruction through the Midwest and South, killing two elderly men, injuring
39 people and flattening hundreds of homes.
The Oklahoma City area is prone to storms; in 1999, 36 people
died in a tornado.
Several terrifying twisters were spotted on Saturday evening
near Rozel, a sparsely populated area in central Kansas. They were also
reported to the south in parts of Oklahoma and Iowa.
A National Weather Service advisory warned: 'You could be
killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter.'
'Complete destruction of neighborhoods, businesses and
vehicles will occur. Flying debris will be deadly to people and animals.'
At least four separate tornadoes touched down in central
Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35
miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a trailer park.
Two men, 79-year-old Glen Irish and 76-year-old Billy
Hutchinson, were found dead after the tornado wrought its devastation on
Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Irish's
body was found out in the open after the storm passed through, while
Hutchinson was taken to Norman Regional Hospital, but later pronounced dead,
according to the medical examiner.
'You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are
places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled
up,' Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after surviving damage in
the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park.
'It looks like there's been heavy equipment in there on a
demolition tour. It's pretty bad. It's pretty much wiped out,' he said.
Across the state, 21 people were injured, not including those
who suffered bumps and bruises and chose not to visit a hospital, said Keli
Cain, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.
Booth
said six at Steelman Estates were hurt.
On Interstate 40, tractor-trailers were blown off the road,
and one was seen hanging over the highway's overpass.
Dozens of homes were damaged by the other tornadoes that
touched down in Oklahoma, but emergency officials had no immediate reports of
injuries caused by any of them, including the first of the afternoon that hit
Edmond, a suburb north of Oklahoma City, before making its way toward Tulsa,
90 miles to the northeast.
'I knew it was coming,' said Randy Grau, who huddled with his
wife and two young sons in their Edmond home's safe room when the tornado
hit.
Twisted
metal lies in the road as people take pictures of damage after a huge tornado
struck on Monday
A
woman is comforted after a tornado that destroyed buildings and overturned
cars struck Moore
A
woman walks through debris after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near
Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013
A
sign for a local restaurant lies on the ground after a huge tornado struck
Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City
An
American flag sits among devastation after the massive twister barreled
through Moore, Oklahoma
Debris
hangs from a tree over a destroyed home as Abby Madi and Peterson Zatterlee
comforts Zaterlee's dog Rippy after escaping the brunt of the storm
Scale:
Bewildered residents assess the damage in their neighborhood
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