Wow! I’m sure these were in color, they’d have that all too familiar reddish-brown, mud-spattered, shredded barren wasteland look that we’ve seen photographed after every other modern OKC/Central OK tornado disaster.I know I've got more somewhere, but I can't find them at the moment. Here are a few:
The tree and car damage in the second photo are comparable to what was seen in 1999 and 2013, but just isn’t as visually striking without color.
Also, one quote from a news report about this tornado that made me raise a few eyebrows:
“When what had been a residential district a few minutes before was a barren waste in the frightening play, swept clean in some instances even of the foundations on which the houses stood.”
Probably hyperbole or a fundamental misunderstanding of house construction and what a foundation is that led to this quote, buts it’s still interesting. These type of claims from older events, while almost always are shown to be untrue or unverifiable, so seem to be associated with some of the most intense tornado events from history.
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