Mega-Tornado flattens Moore, Oklahoma
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By: Ricardo E. Calderon
An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013
Mother Nature unleashed the largest, mega-Tornado in the history of the United States of America on the suburb community of Moore, Oklahoma, adjacent to Oklahoma City, flattening almost the entire community including over 500 homes, two elementary schools, a hospital, and hundreds of businesses, killing at least 91 persons and hundreds hospitalized in nearby hospitals for injuries, at approximately 3 p.m. (C.S.T.) on Monday, May 20, 2013.
Witnesses videotaped the two-mile wide mega-Tornado as it approached and ripped-open Moore, Oklahoma shearing everything in its path, including human life, buildings, vehicles, animals, crops, tractors, tractor-trailers, trees, vegetation, buses, and all physical objects above ground.
National Weather Analysts estimate the mega-Tornado hit an F-5 level, the highest possible, with winds reaching between 160-200 miles per hour devastating everything in its two-mile wide and over 21 miles long path, flattening a 40 square mile radius in Moore and New Castle, Oklahoma.
Many of the dead victims include school children who were about to let out from school at 3 p.m. who took refuge inside their schools with their teachers as the mega-Tornado ripped open the roofs and physical contents of their school buildings.
This mega-Tornado was larger and more destructive than the previous 1999 and 2003 tornadoes that had hit Moore, Oklahoma. This is the mother-lode of all tornadoes in the history of the United States, according to Weather Analysts.
President Barack Obama held a press conference on Tuesday, May 21st, to express his and the country’s sympathies to the families of Oklahoma who lost loved ones in this mega-Tornado and called upon all Americans to assist the people of Oklahoma in any form and fashion available. President Obama stated that the federal government has already dispatched all available personnel and help to Moore, Oklahoma to assist with the recovery effort of the people affected by this devastating tragedy. President Obama praised the teachers who “gave their all” protecting their students as the mega-Tornado sheared their public schools.
One elementary school, Plaza Tower Elementary, in Moore, Oklahoma was completely destroyed leaving only its concrete foundation. The Moore Medical Center, a two-story hospital, was sheared off its second floor and the first floor is unserviceable. Patients were transported to other near-by hospitals in Oklahoma City and surrounding area.
Casualties are expected to increase as the days go by and search and recovery teams scour the debris and devastation. America mourns the lives lost in Moore and New Castle, Oklahoma.
