Today President Obama visited Moore, Oklahoma to tour the aftermath of the huge devastating tornado they experienced last week. The president stated “This is hard to comprehend” and the president also vowed to support with federal funding.
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The tornado, rated at the top of a five-step scale used to measure the destructive power of twisters, killed 24 people – including seven children at the school site Obama visited. It ripped a 17-mile-long (27-km-long) corridor of destruction through the suburb of Oklahoma City, flattening entire blocks of homes, two schools and a hospital. “Obviously the damage here is pretty hard to comprehend,” Obama said, standing on a block where piles of boards, bricks and cinder blocks that used to be buildings and houses lined the side of the street. Rare items that survived the disaster – a television set, a pink baby carriage – stood in contrast to the wreckage.
