wreaked. the mayor said he was the mayor back then and it matches what you were telling me earlier tonight. how is it that this storm is so much worse, it technically wouldn t have been as powerful. right now, it s the width. it s how many blocks of homes it took out at the same time. we re talking about with this storm, at least, at a time, this was making a debris path of two miles wide as it was bowling its way through the town of moore. let me show you what the people of moore have been through.
have lightning blasting all across the sky is just, again, how the scale of it. the widespread destruction, the fact that this thing was this monster as a local paper called it was a mile wide. right. the debris path estimated to be 2 miles wide. and everything in its path was absolutely destroyed. and, unfortunately, mika, as we heard when we were when we heard reports coming out of the school hoping for the best news. but there are some people that grew up around here that just said that some of those kids had absolutely no chance. winds up to 200 miles an hour, and, again, a path of destruction a mile wide. just quickly when you look at what happened here, brian, it s like it is so clear that it happened so fast that no one had any chance. no one. and it s amazing the survival
where do you begin? that s the question. where do you begin on something like this? mike, how long was that tornado on the ground? well, it was on the ground for just under one hour, linda. it set down just southwest of new castle and then went to that large wedge. and i think the peak width on it was about a mile and a half wide. that s one thing i notice looking at these pictures is the debris path appears to be significantly wider through moore than may 3, 1999. and, again, most of this path is just on the southern sides of the may 3rd path. we just saw somebody there obviously in distress, as any of us would be, walking upon a scene like that. you re looking at some of the scenes of devastation from moore, oklahoma, south of oklahoma city a one to two-mi - two-mile-wide tornado cut an area of devastation this area hasn t seen in more than a decade. a lot of the reporters and
working frantically looking here. where do you begin? i mean, that s the question. where do you begin on something like this? mike, how long was that tornado on the ground? well, it was on the ground for just under one hour, linda. it set down just southwest of west of new castle then went to that large wedge. i think the peak width on it was about a mile and a half wide. that s one thing i m noticing looking at these pictures is the debris path appears to be significantly wider through moore than may 3rd,1999. most of this path is on the southern sides of the may 3rd path. we just saw somebody there obviously in distress. as any of us would be. walking up on a scene like that looking through the rubble there. again, let us repeat, warren theater is going to be the staging area for search and rescue. we know a lot of people are going into that area. but please, only people who are supposed to be there in terms of search and rescue. fire departments, police. stay out of the ar
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