Thursday, May 23, 2013

'May 20' takes new meaning for Oklahoma



>>> there are certain dates that resonate across the country as dates. 9/11 for example, everybody knows what you mean if you say 9/11 or september 11th . for generations just saying december 7th had about the same effect everyone knew what you meant if you just said that date. for the people of newtown, connecticut, it's the same. the date for them which will always mean the same thing now forever is december 14th . that's the kind of context you needed if you want to understand the front page of the oklahoman newspaper today. worse than may 3rd . the monster returned. when you say may 3rd in oklahoma , it's one of those dates everyone knows what you're referring to. may 3rd , 1999 , when an outbreak of tornadoes careened through texas and oklahoma and one of those tornadoes, an f-5 with winds speeds over 300 miles an hour, drove straight through moore, oklahoma , and bridge creek and other oklahoma city suburbs. that one twister that day in 1999 took the lives of three dozen people and injured hundreds of people and now the same place has been hammered again. but since may 3rd , since the storm 14 years ago that changed the meaning of that date in oklahoma forever, since then, something important has changed in that region. it's technological. it turned out to be really important for some people yesterday and that story is next. are

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