OKLAHOMA COUNTY -- At times winds rocked our news vehicle so hard we were forced to pull to the side of the road. Rain and hail were so intense it was hard for us to see - power lines snapping all around us. Driving through stalled traffic, our crews made it back to the station - where more utiltity poles were snapped in half. With no power, our station was running off a generator.
In Del City roofs were ripped, tossed and mangled.
"We were kind of hunkered down in here in the front office and just saw this whole roof come ripping off," Hibdon Autoplex owner Denny Dodd said.
Employees of the business scrambled to take cover. They say the FourWarn Storm Team kept them so up-to-date they had time to grab a camera and record the incident.
"There was hail hitting that glass so hard, and it was so loud," Dodd said. "The wind was kind of swirling around, and you couldn't really tell if it was a tornado or just winds."
This was pretty much the same observation around town, even the at the local hospital where winds peeled away part of the roof - prompting an evacuation of patients on the top two floors.
"We had some damage to our roof which gave us some water penetration up on our fifth and sixth floors," Midwest Regional Medical Center CEO Page Vaughan said. "So, we had to relocate some patients."
The storm relocated tree limbs, power lines and roofs, but some things didn't budge. Flying high above all the damage, a tattered American flag waived gently in the wind.
In Del City roofs were ripped, tossed and mangled.
"We were kind of hunkered down in here in the front office and just saw this whole roof come ripping off," Hibdon Autoplex owner Denny Dodd said.
Employees of the business scrambled to take cover. They say the FourWarn Storm Team kept them so up-to-date they had time to grab a camera and record the incident.
"There was hail hitting that glass so hard, and it was so loud," Dodd said. "The wind was kind of swirling around, and you couldn't really tell if it was a tornado or just winds."
This was pretty much the same observation around town, even the at the local hospital where winds peeled away part of the roof - prompting an evacuation of patients on the top two floors.
"We had some damage to our roof which gave us some water penetration up on our fifth and sixth floors," Midwest Regional Medical Center CEO Page Vaughan said. "So, we had to relocate some patients."
The storm relocated tree limbs, power lines and roofs, but some things didn't budge. Flying high above all the damage, a tattered American flag waived gently in the wind.
