Mike Morgan never told anyone to get in their car and drive south, he was telling people listening on the radio to head south. His broadcast was on TV the Internet and and radio simultaneously.
Oklahoma TV weatherman vilified for tornado advice Mike Morgan slammed
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you don't have a clear understanding of how weather predictions work do you?
I love all the arm chair quarterback input. The fact is, nobody will ever know if or how many lives were saved because someone said look at this path. Get the hell out of its way!
I’ll admit he may be a little extreme but Okies get so use to the weather here sometimes they need someone screaming to get their attention. Admit it, we all know to any native a tornado warning in your area means you go outside and look.
As for me and my family, we’ll jump in the cellar right out the back door. I noticed this past week it was good for making friends with our new neighbors too.
I’ll admit he may be a little extreme but Okies get so use to the weather here sometimes they need someone screaming to get their attention. Admit it, we all know to any native a tornado warning in your area means you go outside and look.
As for me and my family, we’ll jump in the cellar right out the back door. I noticed this past week it was good for making friends with our new neighbors too.
I agree, My Neighbor came to use our cellar. She is welcome anytime even if it ain't storming.
I don't think 30% chance means it will rain 30% of the day. I'm pretty sure it means 30% of the viewing area will get rain.
I'll say this I heard Mike Morgan say the tornado was headed toward Moore on the 20th I was on 27th and Shields headed to 19th and SF. After hearing him I turned around and found shelter. Had I not listened I might not be here, I trust Mike Morgan.
My sisters kids and their other family were at home when the tornado was coming. Normally they hunker down in the hallway but this time Mike Morgan was saying that's not enough and to leave immediately if you don't have an underground shelter. They had never left before but Mike Morgan was really pushing it so they loaded up the kids and left immediately. They had just gotten a couple miles away when they saw the tornado going through what looked like their neighborhood. They watched until it passed and drove back. The house was gone along with everyone else's, many of whom fled at the same time. It's not anecdotal to say he saved many, many, many lives, including those of my family so to you who were not hit by the tornado that are saying he went overboard you need to realize you're talking out of your butt.
Ours is not the only case, there are story after story told by those who were swayed by Mike Morgan enough to run instead of stay and they too came home to empty foundations or otherwise demolished houses where they almost certainly would have died. If your house wasn't destroyed by the tornado then count yourself lucky and consider the FACT that Mike Morgans behavior and words saved a LOT of lives so if you want to be an armchair quarterback then save it for football season. Every time I see somebody who wasn't even affected by the tornado criticizing Mike Morgan or the others from that evening it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope I'm never actually close enough to hear someone spit that garbage out of their mouth because it'll be really difficult to keep myself from pushing it back down their throat.
Now imagine how it must feel for him. Under one of the most stressful points in his life he's trying to predict the path of the tornado, how fast it's moving, how big it is, exactly what area's cross street by cross street, all while having a dozen spotters and others feeding reports into him and he has to decipher and categorize all that information on the fly all while on live TV knowing that if he's wrong on direction and area's even by a block people may die because of it. That's enough to shake anyone up including the weather guy and what does he get? A bunch of backseat drivers who had the luxury of watching safe from home criticizing him and saying what he did was unacceptable. What he did was amazing and while it was definitely not what we're used to during the average storm, this was no average storm.
Ours is not the only case, there are story after story told by those who were swayed by Mike Morgan enough to run instead of stay and they too came home to empty foundations or otherwise demolished houses where they almost certainly would have died. If your house wasn't destroyed by the tornado then count yourself lucky and consider the FACT that Mike Morgans behavior and words saved a LOT of lives so if you want to be an armchair quarterback then save it for football season. Every time I see somebody who wasn't even affected by the tornado criticizing Mike Morgan or the others from that evening it makes me sick to my stomach. I hope I'm never actually close enough to hear someone spit that garbage out of their mouth because it'll be really difficult to keep myself from pushing it back down their throat.
Now imagine how it must feel for him. Under one of the most stressful points in his life he's trying to predict the path of the tornado, how fast it's moving, how big it is, exactly what area's cross street by cross street, all while having a dozen spotters and others feeding reports into him and he has to decipher and categorize all that information on the fly all while on live TV knowing that if he's wrong on direction and area's even by a block people may die because of it. That's enough to shake anyone up including the weather guy and what does he get? A bunch of backseat drivers who had the luxury of watching safe from home criticizing him and saying what he did was unacceptable. What he did was amazing and while it was definitely not what we're used to during the average storm, this was no average storm.
If I have any kind of lead time, I and my drivers get the hell out of the way. Mainly because I have the equipment needed to clear roads and possibly save people once the storm passes, and I can't help that effort if my trucks are destroyed.
There's a difference between getting the heck out of Dodge in advance and telling someone to go out into rush hour traffic with five to ten minutes before the tornado gets here. The problem wasn't telling people to run like hell, it was telling them to do it when they no longer could.
We ran into the same traffic, but I'm brave or stupid, I guess. I turned on all my lights and showed everyone south of Mustang that it is possible to evacuate counterflow. I'm amazed at the sheeple behavior during a disaster. People just lined up in SB lanes while the NB lanes were deserted. Another example, people stopping to pay toll on the HE Bailey causing traffic to back up all the way to newcastle. Truck drivers pulling into the weigh station when there is no power and the sign doesn't say open or closed, it's just dark. To me, if it doesn't say open, I ain't pulling in.
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