Oklahoma tornado damage: Orr Family Farm and Celestial Acres

[Merlinsky]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...due-to-tornado

So terrible. Generally, the more you read about this whole situation in Oklahoma, the worse it gets. They did drop the death toll of children in that elementary school from 20 to 9 right now. Some of them had run to safety at nearby churches. It feels weird to call that a silver lining, but at least it's something.

[Danzig]

the larger media outlets are really and truly getting on my nerves at this point. they're all in such a rush to be 'first' to report (and how gruesome to say hey, we reported horrible news first) but none seem worried about getting it correct.

a revision downward is good, but it would have been much better if it were zero fatalities.

[Arletta]

Video from the weather channel of an exercise rider that tried to set the horses free before it hit.

http://www.weather.com/video/emotion...survival-36861

[Merlinsky]

Yeah, don't agree with moving this to the Esoteric Central sub-forum. There are many thoroughbred horses dead. At the Threshold stood at Celestial Acres in the 90s. There are subforums for trips and selections but we still put up with that in the Paddock section. Those threads don't get moved.