out of harm s way. the storm system that spawned friday s deadly tornadoes is now unleashing the staggering amounts of rain. a spokesperson for oklahoma city says flooding is spread all across the metro area. the storm dumped between 8 and 11 inches of rain in a fairly short amount of time. the official says low-lying apartments just swamped. metro buses are stranded and there s even water on the floor of city hall. the national weather service tells us five tornadoes hit in and around oklahoma city. that is a preliminary number. five people were killed. more than 7 0 injured. you re looking right here. images of one of a handful of tornadoes that touched down in oklahoma. this one to the town of el reno, which is just west of oklahoma city. also a twister hit union city in the same county. these images were recorded by a group of storm chasers. of course, those who are always seeking out tornadoes and bring
had on may 20th. these weren t f-5s but fierce enough and really, really intense wind, lots of lightning. probably got 5 or 6 inches of rain almost immediately. i mean, we re clearly going to have major flooding problems. i can walk to my door, which is close to i-35, 119th and moore and watch emergency vehicles both coming off i-35 proceeding west. you kind of worry for a little bit about whether or not there s going to be a tornado. then obviously, very serious and severe straight winds. i don t know how high they were here. my guess would be in the neighborhood of 60 miles an hour. could have gone higher elsewhere. they would come and all of a sudden this area was the center of activity. it got very, very calm and no rain and then all of a sudden
it was horrible. you could move a little bit and then stop. people were trying to get around you, turn around, it was crazy, it was just crazy. i never been in anything like that before. we re not from here. we re from washington state. this is our first experience. and i don t know what to tell you, it s just scary. it s frightening. our son and daughter-in-law was stuck right in oklahoma city. they were stuck. definitely a shock, i m sure, coming from washington state. i lived up there. a lot of rain, but this is different. our kids mean everything. we just wanted them to be safe. it s better to be safe than sorry. the traffic is, i think, one of the disadvantages of getting out of the situation like this. so many people were in accidents and hurt. it s sad. it s very very said. sad.
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you kind of worry a little bit about whether or not there s going to be a tornado. of sle, very seriously severe winds, my guess would be in the neighborhood of 60 miles an hour. this area was almost at the center of this activity. no rain and then all of the sudden, kicked off again. do you have any sense of the casualties that those injured and worse? only what i ve heard on the radio, wolf? the governor has been on and emergency management people have been on. and, you know, the only thing i ve heard and i have no official word, a couple of fatalities on i-40, very tragic. eftly, mother and child.