LAST EDITED ON 05-20-13 AT 09:21 PM (EST)Just terrible news of devastation. Death toll now at 51, but with all the destruction and confusion I expect things will continue to be worse and worse. And night is coming on soon for Oklahoma.
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Crews frantically searched the wreckage and were only beginning to get a sense of the destruction. Hospitals reported several dozen injured.
The whole city looks like a debris field, said Mayor Glenn Lewis of the city of Moore, which appeared to be hardest hit.
... It was not clear how many children were trapped. Students in fourth, fifth and sixth grade were evacuated to a church, but students in lower grades had sheltered in place, ...
The Weather Channel said the twister was a mile wide at its base, and a reporter for KFOR said it kicked up a cloud of debris perhaps two miles wide ...
Other people simply walked around dazed, marveling that nothing was left of their houses and in many cases that they themselves were alive. Fires broke out in some places.
I lost everything, one man said as he walked through the ruins of a horse farm. We might have one horse left out of all of them. ...
An Oklahoma emergency management spokesman said a hospital was being evacuated after sustaining severe damage, and 16 ambulances were being sent to move patients.