renee, broken arrow (5/7/2008 10:08:07 PM)

Whole tornado thing was really scary.

Matt, (5/7/2008 10:49:36 PM)

Obviously, George Bush had something to do with this.

jody, (5/7/2008 11:04:02 PM)

i think he did not things arent always related to our presidents actions sometimes maybe our own chioces

jestergrl, (5/7/2008 11:34:33 PM)

Jody, please read your comment and see if it makes sense.

Kabee, Broken Arrow (5/7/2008 11:58:37 PM)

This was a scary experience for me and my family. I am fairly new to the state of Oklahoma. I'm originally from Michigan. I'm considering investing in an unground shelter of some sort. Because the house doesn't have a basement. When the storm came though, we just held each other and prayed. Eveything worked out okay. But, what do you tell your kids when they ask you (Where's the basement? Are you sure we are SAFE? Are we going to DIE?) It's tough questions to answer when you don't even feel secured.

Francis, Tulsa (5/8/2008 12:01:40 AM)

Thank God none of our local TV weatherpeople were blown away. "I'm not sure, but I think there's a lowering of the clouds!" You heard it, folks! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, BUT FIRST, STAY TUNED, WE'LL HAVE MORE, right after this ...

At least the Tulsa World doesn't put "BREAKING WEATHER" in all CAPS, ala the TV stations. Complete idiocy. But then again, it is sweeps period. You can bet that any cloud in the sky is going to mean a whole lot more in May, than it will in June.

Onomatopoeia, Jenks (5/8/2008 12:50:18 AM)

No offense to the local mets, but whenever a tornado warning is issued, I know well that there is an EXTREMELY small chance that the might-be-tornado will affect my specific location. The local mets do the best that they can with what the stations require them to do under the circumstances. When a tornado warning is issued for an entire county, it's silly for the government to sound the sirens for that entire county. Give me a break. Even the local mets emphasized that any tornado that formed would be small and weak.

To those of you who literally run to your basement every time that you hear a tornado siren: you people need an education regarding whether the might-be-tornado has any chance at impacting you.

The general public views that 0.1 percent of the time that a tornado severely impacts a city over and over again, thanks to the media hype, and assumes that a tornado warning means that the same is likely to happen to them.

Those who panic about tonight's storms might as well buy themselves a half-million worth of earthquake insurance for their homes here in Oklahoma.

Joe-Allen Doty, Tulsa, OK (5/8/2008 9:35:38 AM)

I remember a tornado blew a cow out of my uncle Elmo's pasture when I was just a kid. I wasn't afraid of it, though, and I challanged it to come down a deal with me. It was afraid of me and didn't wish to go one on one. The cow came back with a bump on its head and my aunt Dosey milked it and everything was all right. I spoke Spanish to the cow and it would moo "Gracias". Uncle Elmo went fishing and caught a 7 pound bass for supper. It was really good with the fresh milk that aunt Dosey had milked from the Gracias cow. I was only nine years old at the time, and I was in the 6th grade because I'm so intelligent. I graduated from high school when I was twelve years old because I was so intelligent. I still think about the Gracias cow and keep a photograph of her on my night stand. Sadly, uncle Elmo and aunt Dosey were blown away by a tornato a couple of years later when I was eleven years old and a junior in high school. I sure miss them, but I feel that they were blown up to heaven and God sure has a good fisherman and a good cow milker.

TO POSTER # 8 I know you are not Joe Doty, B'SVILLE (5/9/2008 12:41:59 AM)

Surely you are not Joe Allen Doty-------YOU SURE GAVE ME A GOOD LAUGH. I am not making fun of Dot, but the way you wrote it, it took me a few sentences into it to realize you were joking.

JOE is going to tell us he didn't write it, like we didn't know. Joe it was funny. You sure were intelligent finishing school by age twelve.....What a Cow.