"Country Estates" (new addition of 2 years) - 134th & South Pennsylvania. 50 homes - 37 destroyed |
Regency Park neighborhood - 27th St. & Janeway, Moore. Taken from I-35 overpass-Shields overpass |
| On May 3, 1999, my city was slammed hard
by an F5+ tornado with the fastest winds ever recorded anywhere-- a minimum
of 318 mph!! A total of 44 people were killed (the youngest, 3 weeks
old) from this tornado and hundreds injured in Oklahoma City and it's suburbs.
Damage to property was over one billion dollars.
This tornado came a little over 4 years after the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995) of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building--168 men, women and children killed. A memorial to those killed in the bombing has been built and was dedicated on April 19, 2000. |
THESE PHOTOS WERE
TAKEN ABOUT ONE WEEK AFTER THE DEVASTATING TORNADO
OF MAY 3, 1999
ROARED INTO TOWN. IT DAMAGED LARGE AREAS OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
CITY,
AND PARTS OF
THE SUBURBS OF MOORE AND DEL CITY, OKLAHOMA.
THESE PICTURES
SHOW ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE TO OUR CITY
AND IS MEANT
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA WHAT A TORNADO CAN DO.
PLEASE BE ADVISED
THAT THESE PHOTOS ARE PERSONAL PROPERTY AND MAY NOT
BE REPRINTED
OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.
© S. Rogers, 1999
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"Country Estates" (new addition of 2 years) - 134th & South Pennsylvania. 50 homes - 37 destroyed |
Regency Park neighborhood - 27th St. & Janeway, Moore. Taken from I-35 overpass-Shields overpass |
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