Norman neighborhoods rocked by tornado

TULSA, Okla. — A twister hit Norman late Sunday night time, forsaking a path of particles and damaged houses to scrub up Monday morning.

Freeway 9 and twenty fourth Avenue S.E. is clearly an space that took a direct hit from the twister. Utility crews labored all day Monday doing what they will to revive energy, and decide up utility poles and different particles.

The world remained blocked off to visitors with the one manner in or out being to stroll until you’re a part of a utility firm. The roads are lined in particles, powerlines and different supplies impacted by the storm.

Someplace on this heap of particles was a storage unit of condo furnishings, belonging to Kiele Harris, of Norman. She’s a mom of a one-year-old baby.

“I take every part a bit bit extra critically proper now,” Harris stated. “It doesn’t simply have an effect on me — just about every part impacts her additionally.”

As folks tried to salvage what they may on the 8-8-8 Storage facility, utility crews had been attempting to revive energy in what’s now a debris-filled neighborhood.

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Harris says she wasn’t taking any possibilities at 10 Sunday night. She took her baby, and went straight to cowl.

“We woke her as much as take her into the shelter and he or she watched the information with us till we put her again to mattress,” Harris stated.

Some folks didn’t get as fortunate as houses and companies, together with a Sinclair gasoline station, took direct hits.

Linda Sugg has lived in Norman since 1959, and all she might take into consideration was the twister that hit her residence in Might 2010.

“It appears to me that we’re (Norman) getting hit much more than we used to,” Sugg stated.

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