Why was 2 elementary schools built in the same path as 1999 Tornado

Wow ! 20-20 hindsight on which schools are hit by tornadoes and therefor SHOULD have had shelters !! Meanwhile, there are 10's of thousands of other schools in tornado alley that do not have shelters, have never been hit, and never will be hit. That the southside of OK City has won the devil's lottery on tornado hits in the last 14 years is really bad luck, but not any more predictable than anywhere else out there.

It is a matter clearly for locally-elected local government to decide.

 

How about the early reports from meteorologists who said they recognized the radar pattern from their studies of the 1999 tornado???

It makes me wonder about the conspiracy theorists who claim that the government can 'control' weather patterns, and climate change theories.

 

I agree it is an issue for State or local governments to decide.

And clearly that is the choice that Moore City made.

I doubt that "look how much money we saved overall" is much of a consolation to the families of those children who died.

It will be interesting to see whether parents of other schools in Oklahoma decide that they think that the risk so so small that there is no reason to put in storm shelters or not.

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Not to those two schools.

 

I concur completely. Let the locals decide. I'd like to think that I would be for all schools to have a central "safe room" that is better reinforced. If you look at the pictures of that school, it had a central core area where the roof stayed up, if for no reason but the outer classrooms took the hit. I'd like to think that I would vote for such.

 

Nah. The characteristic behavior of major storms becomes ingrained in the minds of many of the meteorologists who closely monitor the evolution of the storm data in real time. I remember one meteorological course where the prof spent an entire lecture analyzing the very odd conditions that led up to "the storm of the century". It was fascinating. He knew the various special features of the entire prelude and main event storm by heart. There would be many meteorologists who would be intimately familiar with the 1999 F5 in the same region. It had the highest wind speeds ever recorded on earth.