Last week brought a rash of deadly storms to the Sooner State. Check out artist Debby Kaspari's firsthand account of the May 10 tornado, A Most Unearthly Sound. The F4 tornado destroyed her Norman, Oklahoma home. Yesterday, the Tulsa World published a story that featured storm tips from the Nancy Fratzke, a U.S. Cellular spokeswoman for Oklahoma.
During the May 9-10 tornadoes, dispatchers in the 911 ACOG system answered more than 2,300 calls - 874 on May 9 and 1,352 on May 10. In fact, on May 10, the Norman Police Department dispatchers received more than 200 calls between 5 and 9 p.m.
The percentage of calls for Noble and Cleveland County Sheriffs showed a significant increase also, well over 200 percent.
Photo by Debby Kaspari originally posted on her blog, Drawing the Motmot. Debby wrote: The west wall blew outwards, exposing my studio. You can see the side of the wooden flat file in the upper left corner. It contained dozens of drawings and sheets of paper.
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