Tornado Kills 8 People In Lone Grove, Oklahoma

Seven people from Lone Grove, and a truck driver from Jones, Okla., who was driving through the area at the time of the tornado, were killed by this tornado. Two people are still missing. It started about 7:20 pm, it was between 1/4 to 1/2 mile wide. The winds were about 175 miles an hour.

I feel very sad for those people there in Lone Grove. They've lost everything and some lost the most precious thing, their lives.

I don't know the names of those who died.

One previous tornado in CHICKASHA, Okla. on May 8, 1999 had carried a tiny baby away and dropped her in a field.

"A baby and her parents had been sucked out of the closet where they'd taken shelter. Both parents were injured, while 10-month-old Aleah Crago was missing."

"Deputy Sherriff Robert Jolley, 27, was in his patrol car, looking to lend a hand with his in-car video camera rolling. He says he caught a movement out of the corner of his eye near some trees on the side of the road. He went over and, under a tree, saw what appeared to be a baby."

"It looked to me like a rag doll," says Jolley. "I reached under the debris, and pulled the baby out. I think when the baby reached out for me when I sat her down to check her, that was probably when I started thinking about being a father. Yeah, I cried."

"Remarkably, little Aleah suffered only a small cut on her head, and some bruises. She was soon reunited with her mother. Her father remains hospitalized, in critical condition. Her grandmother was killed in the storm, one of more than 40 fatalities that night in Oklahoma."

Here is another version of the story about Aleah Crago being rescued by Robert Jolley.

Tornadoes February 10, 2009

Today we're having tornadoes. On tornado hit several very large homes and just ripped them apart. There was a boat sitting on a trailer and the tornado took the boat off the trailer and moved it 3/4 of a mile but left the trailer untouched. There was a Target store that had the back part of it's roof removed. A Chuck-E-Cheese pizza business had the back part of it removed.

Lots of pets are out roaming around dazed. They are being taken to a Vet. clinic. There are power lines down on Pennsylvania Avenue. Schools in Oklahoma City, Edmond, Piedmont, and Yukon were on lock down. The buses were not running because of danger of downed power lines, and flying debris.

About 10,500 customers lost Gas and Electric power, spokesman Brian Alford said.

Utility poles block part of an intersection after they were blown over in Oklahoma City, Tuesday , Feb. 10, 2009

Anouar Bachouchi shows where he was seated at his desk moments before a storm blew out the windows at a U.S. Cellular store.

Fantastic Sams salon in Oklahoma City shows storm damage.

Fed Ex - Kinkos store in Oklahoma City.

Sign at a shopping center in Oklahoma City is bent and twisted following a store.

We are bracing for more storms tonight. So far no one has been seriously injured.
Must go now because of the lightening.