My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Moore,Ok. I can not imagine living through something like that.
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My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Moore,Ok. I can not imagine living through something like that.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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It looks very bad out there in OK as the pictures are coming in. I wish them the best...
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Mom lives outside of Edmond, a north east suburb of OKC...close call yesterday.
For being in Tornado Alley, not too many houses have basements because most houses are built on slab there. You would think folks would want a basement.
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Experienced Scrapper
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The grounds too hard. The layer of limestone is too close to the surface to make it easy to build basements. You can get basements, but the cost is huge due to the amount of work it takes to get through the limestone.Originally Posted by KzScrapper
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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
has moore taken a hit ? tonight?
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Moore took a hit at about 3:30 this afternoon. 51 dead as of 9:30est. 24 kids traped in the basement of a school presomed dead.Sorry for being so blunt, I say this with a heavy hart. Many people do have storm shelters(small basements) The force of the tornadoe was so strong that ripped the doors off of the storm shelters and some of the doors were covered with debris trapping people in the shelters.
Rural scrapper
Looks like they are fixing to take another storm. God bless them people, and I pray they are spared another round of severe weather.
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woah! : (
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Are you seeing any storms in your area? Local weather says it's coming this direction in a day or so.
Keeper of the Cooler!
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Ya folks in the path of it stay safe eh? An as the others said..my thoughts an prayers for those in Moore.
Sirscrapalot - Having a few cold ones for the folks out there, specially the teacher who saved them children with her own body.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I've never professed to be a real 'religious' man, but I pray God be with those people. It's truely horrific
"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know WHY I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and all of those roads weren't paved"-Will Rogers
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used to live there. Moore is tornado central, been hit badly 3 times that I know of. one F5 in 98/99 one in the mid 70s and at least an F4 yesterday. on my second day there I stood in my front yard and watched one tornado go by on the south while another went by to the north. Moore is a nice town. God bless them.
"anyone who thinks scrappin is easy money ain't doin it right!"
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was stationed in Lawton and there was a tornado a day it seemed. God bless the children who died so very young
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes;
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
I'm 10 miles away from there, would it be ok to try and pick up scrap from there or do you think that would be too soon or would I be allowed to at all?
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You could maybe do some cleaning up with the others then hand out a few cards in case they want to contact you for further clean-up.
Pretty soon they'll be dumping it in dumptrucks and hauling it away. Soon as people get their keepsakes picked out.
It's a shame their getting poured on,,,
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Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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at the risk of sounding insensitive, as soon as i heard about what happened & saw the pics
my mind was like, hospital, hmmm
lots of good scrap there
there will obviously be a cleanup operation & it would be a shame for valuable metal to get wasted.
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Not much will be wasted. Problem is when people take whats not theres, the homeowners need to have the insurance people out first before they will give or throw away anything. This town has had big storms before and I am sure not much of anything of value, will go to the landfill. These people will get thru these hard times, it will just take some time...
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If your 10 miles away then you could go around the out skirts of where the tornado was and find debris. The news said debris was found 100 miles away. I'm sure that debris was light stuff like papers and pitchers but the bigger stuff you might be able to find a few miles away from the scene.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
thanks everyone yeah they have already arrested 5 different sets of people last I heard, out skirts sounds good, had a friend that was driving around looking at the damage said people already have it out on there curb hmm?
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I'm thinking it's too soon. Still. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's never timely to scrap tornado wreckage for profit.
I realize that something needs to be done with all that detritus, but I do not believe that going out there & picking through it right now would paint the industry in a good light.
Out of clutter, find simplicity. --Albert Einstein
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