Amazing and heartbreaking pictures from the tornado (+ link to LIVE video):

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Images from THIS live feed:

First, this is where you can still see houses:


This is where there are simply no houses anymore:


This is unreal. See all those little horizontal lines? Those are driveways leading to rubble:


These are children running from at least one of two destroyed schools, presumably meeting up with their parents or other adults who'll help them:


Keep all these people in your thoughts please. I think a lot of people in this area are going to be coming home to bare concrete foundations and a landscape fit for a war. The scale of this damage is enormous and not easily represented in these relative close-ups.



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More, a wider shot:

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Is this the Moore Okla tornado?

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2. Yeah. nt

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Reminds me of pictures of Hurricane Andrew damage. nt

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4. The thing that's so amazing is all this was done in a few minutes.

From what I heard on the news, this particular (giant) tornado was on the ground only for about an hour. There are reports that it's "recycling", coming back after dissipating.

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[Mika]

6. Except that Andrew's destruction swath was 50 miles wide & across the entire state and ...

285,000 homes destroyed or damaged to the point of un-livability.

[Wait Wut]

5. "Finger of God"

I'm not a religious person, but that line from Twister gave me chills.

These pictures, Finger of God, indeed. I'm at work and I want to cry. All I can do is just sit here, frozen.