Looters in the Tornado Wreckage

[longknife]

From Urbangrounds blog @ http://urbangrounds.com/2013/05/looters-in-moore/?utm_source=feedly

How Much of a Degenerate Do You Have to Be to Loot the Homes of Victims of a Natural Disaster?
Posted by Robbie Cooper on 5/21/2013

According to*Bob Mills SkyNews9 HD, the two pieces of garbage sitting handcuffed in the above photo were caught looting homes in Moore, Oklahoma after yesterday’s massive tornado*devastated*the town.

I personally think all such looters should be shot on sight – just like the poster. There's no excuse.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Looters arrested in tornado-devastated Oklahoma neighborhood - NY Daily News

 

[B. Kidd]

'Tweekers' have no moral code. Even the rural ones.

 

[Gracie]

Looters should be shot on sight.

 

[waltky]

Now dat's a good idea - wonder why dey didn't think of it before in a tornado prone area?...

Oklahoma tornado: Mayor of Moore pushes for shelter law
22 May 2013 - The mayor of the tornado-devastated town of Moore in Oklahoma has vowed to push for a new law on shelters, after a huge twister there killed at least 24.

Glenn Lewis said he would propose an ordinance requiring a reinforced shelter to be built in every new home. Volunteers are now engaged in a recovery mission - delivering supplies and helping people find accommodation. The White House says that President Barack Obama will travel to Moore on Sunday. The Oklahoma medical examiner's office said 23 of the 24 victims had now been identified and that 10 of them were children. Officials are still searching for six adults who have not yet been accounted for. Between 12,000 and 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said.

Disaster centres

Mr Lewis said he would propose the shelter ordinance in the next few days and was confident it would pass the six-member city council. The law would require a storm shelter or safe room in all single- and multi-family homes and could be in place in a few months. "We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Mr Lewis told CNN. An underground safe room can cost several thousand dollars. The BBC's Jonny Dymond, in Oklahoma City, says there was no announcement from Mr Lewis on the use or construction of safe rooms in schools.

More than 100 schools in Oklahoma had been provided with state-funded safe rooms. But Plaza Towers Elementary - where seven of the children killed in the tornado died - and one other school hit by the storm, Briarwood Elementary, did not have them. The tornado ripped the roof off Plaza Towers Elementary and knocked down walls as students and teachers cowered in hallways and bathrooms. The tornado, which the National Weather Service (NWS) listed as an EF-5 - the most powerful type on the Fujita scale - destroyed entire blocks of Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb of 56,000 people. The twister packed winds of at least 200mph (320km/h).

Mr Lewis said he did not expect the death toll of 24 to rise. Some 237 people were known to have been injured. On Wednesday, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office said that all the children who died had now been identified - they ranged in age from four months to nine years. Medical examiner's spokesman Amy Elliott said officials were still trying to contact the relatives of eight of the victims. Hundreds of volunteer workers and federal officials have fanned out across the suburb to deliver food and other supplies to residents whose homes had been swept away. Disaster centres have been set up and help given to people to assess what they have lost and what their immediate needs are.

More BBC News - Oklahoma tornado: Mayor of Moore pushes for shelter law

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Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived
22 May`13 - Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.

At least one family took refuge in a bathtub and some people shut themselves in underground shelters built into their houses when the powerful storm tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon. While rescue workers and body-sniffing dogs sifted through the ruins on Wednesday, those who escaped told their stories of survival while trying to salvage what was left of their belongings. "Yesterday I was numb. Today I cried a lot. Now I'm on the victory side of it," said Beth Vrooman, who hid in a shelter in her garage in Moore during the storm. The tornado's winds exceeded 200 miles per hour, flattened entire blocks and demolished two schools and a hospital on its 17-mile (27-km), 50-minute rampage through central Oklahoma.

Listed as the highest category of storm - an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale - the twister damaged or obliterated 2,400 homes and affected an estimated 10,000 people, said Jerry Lojka, spokesman for Oklahoma Emergency Management. President Barack Obama was due to survey the damage himself on Sunday, a White House spokesman said. After rescue workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the debris, authorities said six people remained unaccounted for in a town of 55,000 people. "They're not sure if they've walked off or if they are in the rubble," Albert Ashwood, director of Oklahoma's Department of Emergency Management, told a news conference. Experts explaining the low death toll cited a relatively long advance warning of 16 minutes for the tornado and high awareness of the dangers in a region known as Tornado Alley.

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Tornado survivors salvage belongings

Even so, some survivors were astounded they made it. Tonya Williams, 38, said she still felt in shock after surviving the tornado, as so many did, by taking shelter in a closet. She put bicycle helmets on her 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son, collected her three dogs and pushed them all into a hall closet. "We prayed. I could feel pressure, and being sucked. I put my body over them to try to protect them," Williams said. When neighbors dug them out, the roof and upper story of the house had collapsed into and around the closet. Williams and her children suffered only minor injuries.

A large wooden cross that had been hanging on an upstairs wall was found on top of them, she said. "If you weren't a religious person before, you are now," Williams said. "No word can describe it but a miracle." Of the 24 who died, 10 were children and about 240 others were injured. Most of the victims died of blunt force injuries and five of the children died from suffocation, the state medical examiner said on Wednesday. The youngest victim was four months old. The oldest was 63.

More Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived

 

[Politico]

Humans are scum. They loot. How is this news?

 

[bodecea]

Looters should be shot on sight.

Find some standing lite poles. (Looters at disaster sites have been an issue like.....forever)

 

[blastoff]

Try to work them to death helping with the cleanup for 30 days, and then shoot the bastards if they make it that far.

 

[editec]

From Urbangrounds blog @ How Much of a Degenerate Do You Have to Be to Loot the Homes of Victims of a Natural Disaster? » UrbanGrounds

How Much of a Degenerate Do You Have to Be to Loot the Homes of Victims of a Natural Disaster?
Posted by Robbie Cooper on 5/21/2013

According to*Bob Mills SkyNews9 HD, the two pieces of garbage sitting handcuffed in the above photo were caught looting homes in Moore, Oklahoma after yesterday’s massive tornado*devastated*the town.

I personally think all such looters should be shot on sight – just like the poster. There's no excuse.

Probably a bad idea.

People foraging though the wreckage could ALSO BE homeowners looking for their own stuff, ya know?

But once a REAL looter is found serious sentencing is definitely in order.

 

[Katzndogz]

Looting can be stopped by one simple rule.

You loot. We shoot.