Oklahoma = OklaHOME {Tornados Suck}

 In case you haven't heard we have had what some might call...a touch of bad weather!  Tornados are a way of life in Oklahoma & most everyone who has lived here for any amount of time has been through one. Most have a plan, know what to do, & are smart about it but nothing can prepare someone for an F5 tornado. Brick homes, wood homes, apartment complexes, none of it matters. You are trained & raised to take cover in the center of your house, a hallway, bathroom/bathtub, or inner closet but none of that matters with an F5. The meteorologists here say it best "if you are not underground when it hits you are dead" it's scary!
    Weather is crazy in Oklahoma! It changed like the wind. It can be blazing hot & within a few hours or a day it will be freezing! There is one thing that everyone around here knows; it's that quiet, muggy, clear looking morning that you know is going to drop tornados. That was what it was like on Sunday. The frost tornado dropped in Edmond, OK where I work at a Hospital. Since the storms were not headed for our little town of Shawnee (about 45 min away from Edmond) when the hospital called for help I went! I got all the way to the ER & was told "nevermind, we done need you!" So I got back in the car & headed back. On my way I got calls asking where I was, the storm shifted and Shawnee was in the path. As I got closer I got the call from my wife that her & the boys were in the storm shelter underground but as I tried to keep the car on the road & talk to Samantha I looked out my window to see..... Well have a look:
Yeah, I know I shouldn't be trying to out run a tornado while hanging my arm over the seat to snap a photo with my phone! I'm a photographer! Sorry!

We were missed by less than a mile! So many others were not & as I'm sure you now know the next day had even worse thing in store for our friends & neighbors just 30 or so miles down the road in Moore, OK. Moore was his by an F5 & is just gone in areas. I mean that as literal as it sounds...it's gone! Below is a pic of right before & then the same picture right after. People have trouble even knowing where there house was because there is nothing recognizable. 
Death, destruction, & through all of it People are coming together. Money, cloths, water, diapers, anything! People are really showing out for one another through this! If you feel that you can please give to the Red Cross! They were amazing to my family after the fire & are being amazing to the whole state now! Whats going on in Oklahoma is the saddest thing you have ever seen combined with the most hopeful, proudest, & awe inspiring things you've ever seen all at once!Here are a few I snapped from down the road from our house yesterday;