Oklahoma tornado: May 2. We're going to leave it there for the night. Please check our US page for the latest. Tomorrow is the two year anniversary of the tornado in Joplin, Missouri which killed 1. The scale of the Oklahoma damage may be even higher, even if the death toll is lower. It came like a “freight train”.

That was how one resident of Moore, Oklahoma, described the sound of the tornado as it stripped his house from its foundations. It passed with an “incredible, thundering roar”. It was a thing of terror, something beastly and murderous that gobbled up everything in its rotating maw and then moved on, still hungry.

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Those who have lived through tornadoes – or who chase them – often speak of this most mesmerising of meteorological phenomena in animal terms. As the number of dead continued to rise – 2. Moore tornado: it was, they said, “a monster”.

The choice of word was emotive. It referred not only to the tornado’s size and destructive power – nearly two miles across with winds up to 2. EF4” on the Fujita scale – but also the capricious, grasping nastiness of tornadoes that begin as supercell thunderstorms that frequently blacken the skies of Tornado Alley at this time of year, but then, with almost no warning, reach down to earth to take lives.

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The area is showing a fierce determination to get back on its feet. Janet Napolitano, the secretary of Homeland Security, will travel to Oklahoma nad Missouri tomorrow to survey the damage and to meet with first responders.

Alex Hannaford is on the ground in Moore for us and sends this snippet: The two elementary schools, Briarwood and Plaza Towers, are just one and a half miles apart but yesterday that made a world of difference. Only police, firefighters, the military and search and recovery workers are allowed near Plaza Towers now. I walked for half a mile down the street, as close as I could get along South West 1. St but all you can see are the large floodlights looming above the debris of demolished houses, still bright despite it being morning here. This part of Moore is all strip malls and single- storey brick houses. Now, the roads, sidewalks and verges are covered with debris.

In just a short stretch I saw a metal child's lunchbox; a National Football League badge; a pillow; a blanket; and broken wood and metal as far as the eye could see - - all of it tossed by a mile- wide tornado. Tornadoes average 3.

This one was more like 1. It formed at 2. 5. Oklahoma City. One journalist covering the storm for a local radio station told listeners . If it had been 3. G Alphabetical Index Of Dating Resources.

News helicopters were initially told to back off from the rubble so that first responders, suffering the effects of migraines from inhaling gas leaking from demolished homes, could listen for survivors. It's raining hard now in Moore, and the sky is dark. But the search for the missing continues. Gary Bird, the chief of the Moore Fire Department, said that his team of 2.

Oklahoma authorities plans to help residents build storm shelters were derailed by a lack of federal funding and a . The Safe Room Rebate Programme is designed to allow families to apply for thousands of dollars to construct shelters in which to seek refuge during severe weather. It is funded through federal dollars made available when the president makes a major disaster declaration for a badly- damaged area. Authorities in both Moore and Oklahoma City said that the relatively few disaster declarations meant there was little money available to help families build shelters. Mick Cornett, the mayor of Oklahoma City, said this was . He praises advances in technology for the fact there weren't more casualties. Fema administrator Craig Fugate urges people to stay off mobile phone networks and use text messaging instead.

At the same time, he says, let people know you are OK. Did he say the response showed the value of investment? Was that a touch political at this stage?

We don't know if there are missing people - there may be. We don't have fuirm numbers of deaths we have experienced. We are working to get a more accurate count of the loss of life - Gov Fallin 1.

Gov Fallin confirms that the storm was 2. She thanked Fema for everything. Gov Mary Fallin of Oklahoma said at a press conference in Moore: . We will rebuild from this. A destroyed police car sits among the debris of tornado- ravaged homes in Moore, Oklahoma. The 1. 99. 9 tornado, which saw winds of up to 3. We've found a picture of the damage below.

The path tornados took through Moore, Oklahoma, in 1. May 5 1. 99. 9 file photo. In this picture below Dalton Sprading, right, can be seen handing a gun to his uncle Roger Craft as he salvages items from his tornado- ravaged home in Moore, Oklahoma. Oklahoma's Senator James Inhofe - who opposed emergency disaster relief for Superstorm Sandy victims, calling the bill a . They had things in the Virgin Islands.

They were fixing roads there, they were putting roofs on houses in Washington, D. C. Everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won’t happen in Oklahoma. A teacher saved her pupils' lives by covering several with her body to shield them from the storm. Some of us had a math book and some of us had our backpacks.

They went off again, and then we heard the tornado and it sounded like a train coming by, and then we were all in cover. She was covering me and my friend Zachary. I told her we were fine because we were holding on to something, and then she went over to my friend Antonio and covered him, so she saved our lives. Telegraph TV has compiled the most dramatic footage from Oklahoma - and handily put it all in one place for your perusal. Zoe Fox of Mashable believes that social media is the front line of disaster response.

She has numbers to back this suggestion up. Of those Americans effected by natural disasters, 7.

She also links to an infographic at USF's Online MPA, which maps out how social media has revolutionised communications during natural disasters. The Medical examiner has given an update, in which they confirmed 2. Seven children were found at the school, two elsewhere.

They originally recorded 5. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN- backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says pinning the tornado on climate change is wrong, even though the world is due to see a rise in high- profile weather disasters due to global warming. What could better preparedness have been?

Well it's very difficult to say at this stage. But one really cannot relate an event of this nature to human- induced climate change. It's just not possible. Scientifically, that's not valid. Raf Sanchez has more on Moore developing a plan to help residents build storm shelters only for it to be put .

Moore had intended to apply for $2 million in grants, enough to offer a $2,5. Few homes in Oklahoma have basements, leaving many families dependent on specially- built . In May 2. 01. 2, the city said that it hoped to receive approval from FEMA by the end of that year. Instead the process continued to drag and in February 2. FEMA's regulations for the delay. He asks those who want to help go online and head to the Red Cross. We will open our homes and hearts to those in need..

You will not travel that path alone. Your country will travel it with you. Barack Obama is making a statement on Oklahoma. Fema are on their way there as he speaks.

US Vice President Joe Biden looks on as Preident Barack Obama addresses the nation in the wake of the Oklahoma tornado. The people of Moore should know their country will remain on the ground, there for them, beside them, as long as it takes. He says they don't yet know the human and economic losses that have been incurred. There are empty spaces that used to be bedrooms and classrooms. We are going to have to refill those spaces with love. Kristina Daniel, who was working in Moore when the tornado struck, has told Alex Hannaford that they were all put into a storm shelter. She and husband Donovan were shifting through the rubble, bent strips of metal, insulating material and wood of what was left of their house.

Luckily, she was with Kristina's mother yesterday afternoon at 3pm. A piece of her wooden crib juts out of a window frame. The couple's dogs were in there when the tornado struck. Miraculously both survived. Shadow, a little Maltese- Yorkshire Terrier mix, was unscathed. Oreo, a pitbull, had a small cut on his foot. His cage broke apart when the house collapsed and he escaped.

Donovan found him a couple of hours ago wandering what's left of the subdivision. In 1. 99. 9, the last time a devastating tornado struck, Donovan was living in an apartment complex in north Moore. That block was destroyed. This is the second time it's happened to him.

Whatever else we can find. As dawn breaks Tuesday morning, storm clouds roll in over a destroyed neighborhood the day after a tornado hit in Moore, Oklahoma. A mangled car rests in Warren Theatre's parking lot as a storm cloud passes over the day after a tornado hit in Moore, Oklahoma. Children wait for their parents to arrive at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City. One man has told local television that he survived the tornado in a horse stall. It was unbearably loud. There were horses and stuff flying around everywhere.

Just like the movie Twister. Officials in Oklahoma City said on Tuesday that 2.

Moore, Oklahoma, a sharp decline from the 5. The number right now is 2.

The prior figure of 5. Elliott said. 1. 3. I suspect this might not be the last we hear of this but it appears there have been issues with the federal funding of safe rooms and shelters. The question of funding has dragged on since October 2.

City of Moore solicited names and addresses of Moore residents interested in receiving funding of a safe room or storm shelter. Alex Hannaford has sent us a picture on his way into to see the wreckage. Luckily the house was not containing anyone.

Destroyed house in Kings Manor Edition subdivision. The house had a storm shelter but luckily the owners were away at the time the tornado struck.