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Nine-year-old best friends Antonia Lee Candelaria and Emily Conatzer died hand-in-hand as their school was torn apart around them it has emerged today.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline nine-year-old Antonia's mother, Brandie Candelaria told of the comfort both families draw from knowing their children were together, holding each other's hands, when the unthinkable happened.

Brandie wept as she recalled: 'I went to see my little girl yesterday at the Chief Medical Examiner's office.

'There were little marks, imprints and tiny scratches on her forearm like someone had been holding onto her, clinging to her.
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Monster: Meteorologists estimate the storm on Monday had between eight and 600 times more energy than Hiroshima
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…..item 1)…. Bigger than Hiroshima: Monster tornado measuring 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide was 600 TIMES more powerful than atomic bomb as NASA releases images of twister from space …

… Mail Online – Daily Mail … www.dailymail.co.uk/news

… Wind speed, air moisture, temperature and timing all came together to create the perfect storm, which left at least 24 dead, including nine children, and some 237 injured

… Meteorologists estimate the tornado had eight times to more than 600 times the power of the bomb that flattened the Japanese city during World War II, with more experts at the high end

… Calculations are based on energy measured in the air and then multiplied over the size and duration of the storm

… News comes as NASA released spectacular images of the fierce twister from space

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and HELEN POW
PUBLISHED: 22:47 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 08:40 EST, 22 May 2013

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…..item 2)…. Tragic sight of dead horses piled high as farmers return to find ‘just scorched earth’ after Oklahoma tornado …

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… More than 100 horses feared dead after 200mph twister destroys farms
… Dead animals found amid piles of debris and tangled in power lines
… Witnesses describe scene as a ‘war zone… like a bomb went off’

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 04:19 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:15 EST, 22 May 2013

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Piled high amid a trail of destruction, these tragic horses are among more than 100 thought to have been killed in the Oklahoma tornado.

As well as human lives that were lost, farms around the suburb of Moore took a direct hit from the giant twister which swept up everything in its path with winds of more than 200mph and the power of up to 600 nuclear bombs.

Witnesses who cowered in terror described seeing ‘horses and stuff flying around everywhere’ and returning to find ‘scorched earth’ and crumpled buildings.

They came across distressing scenes of horses lying in the middle of the road, surrounded by piles of twisted metal and uprooted trees. Others were tangled in power lines.

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img code photo … a pile of dead horses in Moore, Oklahoma

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‘There was stuff flying around everywhere’: A woman walks past a pile of dead horses in Moore, Oklahoma, that were killed by the tornado a day earlier

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img code photo … A dead horse lays amid a pile of twisted metal

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Sorry sight: A dead horse lays amid a pile of twisted metal, wires and uprooted trees after the 200mph storm swept through Moore on Monday

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The owners of the Orr family farm which sits on the Celestial Acres Thoroughbred training centre in Moore said debris from their property had been found 90 miles away in Tulsa.

Tony Vann, president of Vann & Associates, the public relations firm that represents the Oklahoma City area farm, told ESPN: ‘Right now we still don’t have any specific numbers [on how many horses have died].

‘It’s like a war zone here. [The horses] are just gone. It’s just scorched earth – like a bomb went off.’

More…

… ‘I knew if I was taken, all the babies would be gone too’: Teacher mother pictured in iconic photo of Oklahoma devastation describes how she ‘held on for dear life’ to stop students from flying away
… The heartbreaking faces of the dead and the missing: Five people now identified as having lost their lives in terrifying Oklahoma tornado as families turn to Facebook and Twitter to search for missing loved ones
… Bigger than Hiroshima: Monster tornado measuring 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide was 600 TIMES more powerful than atomic bomb as NASA releases images of twister from space

The storm, which barreled through the Oklahoma City suburb for 17 miles on Monday, injured 237 people and killed at least 24, including nine children and four people in Oklahoma City.

Emergency workers have been able to pull more than 100 survivors from the debris of homes, schools and a hospital.
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img code photo … A dead horse blocks the road at Penn Avenue and 134th street

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Apocalyptic: A dead horse blocks the road at Penn Avenue and 134th street

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img code photo … ‘Like a war zone’

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‘Like a war zone’: A lifeless horse lays tangled in power lines. One farm fears it has lost nearly 80 of its animals

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img code photo … One of the lucky ones

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One of the lucky ones: Rescuers recover a horse from the remains of a day care centre and destroyed barns

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Earlier, the Orr farm’s exercise rider who survived the twister by sheltering in a horse stall which was carried more than 100ft in the storm told how he feared nearly 80 horses had perished.

Lando Hite credits his native knowledge of Oklahoma tornadoes with saving his life.

He said he instinctively knew the weather had become dangerous when he noticed the storm winds drop and every ‘go quiet’.

The horse exercise rider and caretaker looked outside, giving him vital seconds to take cover.
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Oklahoma tornado victim Lando Hite and tearful friend survey…

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img code photo … Lucky to be alive: Lando Hite

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Lucky to be alive: Lando Hite, standing in front of the devastated farm where he lived and worked, survived the tornado by sheltering in a horse stall which collapsed on top of him

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img code photo … Terrifying: The storm, which barrelled through the Oklahoma City suburb for 17 miles on Monday …

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Terrifying: The storm, which barrelled through the Oklahoma City suburb for 17 miles on Monday, injured 237 people and killed at least 24, including nine children and four people in Oklahoma City

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He told new station KFOR: ‘It was unbearably loud. There were horses and stuff flying around everywhere. Just like the movie Twister.’

He said he immediately tried to free some of the horses on the ranch where he lives before hiding in the stall.

Shirtless and covered in mud, Mr Hite said the stalls collapsed on top of him as they were pummeled by the wind and a pick-up truck was pushed on top of the stable.

Mr Hite cared for 80 horses on the Orr Family Farm, a local tourist attraction, but believes that just one of the animals survived.

He said five sturdy barns, including one where he lived, were completely destroyed.

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…..item 3)…. Two girls, 9, who were ‘inseparable’ best friends, found dead in devastated Oklahoma elementary school ‘holding onto each other’ …

… Mail Online – Daily Mail … www.dailymail.co.uk/news

… The bodies of Antonia Lee Candelaria and Emily Conatzer were found in Plaza Towers Elementary School

… Relatives told MailOnline that their daughters were ‘never apart’ and they took some comfort from the fact that they had each other until the end

… All seven children who died at the school have now been identified

… Search parties announced they had completed their search this morning

By LAURA COLLINS IN OKLAHOMA
PUBLISHED: 10:29 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:32 EST, 22 May 2013

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329098/Oklahoma-tornado…

Nine-year-old best friends Antonia Lee Candelaria and Emily Conatzer died hand-in-hand as their school was torn apart around them it has emerged today.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline nine-year-old Antonia's mother, Brandie Candelaria told of the comfort both families draw from knowing their children were together, holding each other's hands, when the unthinkable happened.

Brandie wept as she recalled: 'I went to see my little girl yesterday at the Chief Medical Examiner's office.

'There were little marks, imprints and tiny scratches on her forearm like someone had been holding onto her, clinging to her.

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img code photo … Antonia Lee Candelaria

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Tragedy: The body of little Antonia Lee Candelaria was discovered in Plaza Towers Elementary school holding her dearest friend Emily Conatzer

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img code photo … Emily Conatzer

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Best friends: Emily Conatzer was found in the rubble of Plaza Elementary school with Antonia Lee Candelaria

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Help me! Traumatised schoolchildren comforted by teachers

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'We take some comfort in thinking that she and Emily were holding onto each other and not alone.'
The little girls were, Ms Candelaria said 'inseparable in life.'

They had long been best friends at Plaza Towers Elementary where both were in the third grade.
When the Conatzers moved into the Candelaria's neighborhood last year they were, Ms Candelaria said 'just never apart.'

Now the families who were once bonded simply by their daughters' friendship are united in the bitter blessing of having each found and lost a child in the storm that leveled a swathe of Moore, Oklahoma.

More…

… ‘I can’t explain my anger and sadness’: Father of girl, 9, who died when school was hit by tornado describes his horror at finding the building reduced to rubble
… Hope then heartbreak: Mother of choirboy, 8, killed by tornado at elementary school tells how she’d thought he’d survived but found out he was dead after ‘night of hell’

Antonia was the middle child of three – her little sister, Lillian, is four months old and her older, Trinity, is 10.

Trinity was pulled from the rubbled of Plaza Towers by her father, Jimmy Rosson, who helped save several children in his hunt for his girls.

Emily Conatzer was one of two girls – her little sister, Luci, was also rescued and returned to her parents, 'a little bit banged up but otherwise fine.'

Ms Candelaria said: 'I don't remember exactly how it happened. I was at home with my youngest and we stayed together when the Tornado hit.

'As soon as it was over me and Jimmy and the baby got out of our house and looked across to the Conatzers.
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Heartbroken: Emily’s mother shared her grief and thanked people for their kind wishes

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Devastated: Emily’s mom Kristi wrote about her grief on Facebook saying she had worst news a parent could have

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Big sister: Emily was big sister to Luci, pictured

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'Her husband was working on getting them out – they were okay but they were trapped a while.'

The parents were, Ms Candelaria said, 'just frantic' to get to the school where both had two daughters.

The first to be found was the Conatzer's youngest, then Trinity Candelaria.

Ms Candelaria said: 'Jimmy brought Trinity back to me and wanted to go and carry on searching for Antonia but when he went back they stopped them digging.

'They stayed looking as long as they could but they couldn't get to them – they couldn't get to my little ladybug or Emily.'

Her voice cracking, wrung out with grief, Ms Candelaria said: 'That's what she was – my little Ladybug.

'My other girls are my Lovebugs. She'd just recently become a big sister and she loved it, she loved spoiling her little baby sister.

'She had such a beautiful innocence about her, such a whole different way of looking at things. You'd think ‘How in the world did she come up with that?’ Then you'd think about it and it would make a kind of sense.'

Ms Candelaria, herself a state employee, praised the teachers who helped rescue her eldest child.

Questions have been asked as to why Plaza Towers Elementary and Moore Elementary, both razed by the storm, did not have underground bunkers or safe spaces built into the fabric of the schoolhouses. Such measures could have been the difference between life and death for those trapped within.
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img code photo … Destruction

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Destruction: Officials said 2,400 homes had been destroyed or damaged in the tornado

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img code photo … Rebuilding

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Rebuilding: Families were combing through belongings and beginning to try and take stock of the damage today

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Ms Candelaria said: 'There's a lot of questions as to why things happened the way they happened but now isn't the time for pointing fingers or laying blame.

'We have to do what we can for our little girls. There are so many stories we have to share with each other, so many memories or our beautiful ladybug.

'Her service is tomorrow and all the prayers and memories people have shared means so much.'

As does the thought that, as the storm raged, her little girl was not entirely alone.

Ms Candelaria said: 'I couldn't be there with her but she was with her best friend and now she's still with her best friend and knowing that helps a bit.'

Kristen Strickland Conatzer shared her grief for little Emily online.

Writing on Facebook yesterday she said: ‘Today was the day that no parent wants to encounter, the words you never want to hear as a parent.

‘Our baby didn’t make it. I am overwhelmed by the support that is pouring in from all of my friends, family and Facebook family. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

‘I hope I wake up and she is jumping around on me giggling…but i know that she is in heaven smiling down. My baby I know you are with the unicorns tonight. Sleep well my angel.’
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Distraught: Laurinda Vargyas fought to save her baby Sydney, pictured, and 4-year-old, Karrina, who both died

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img code photo … Tragedy

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Tragedy: Megan Futrell, pictured, and her five-month-old baby were among those killed at a 7-Eleven store in Moore, Oklahoma, which was destroyed in Monday’s tornado

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Others rushed to pay tribute to the two little girls and spoke about their lovely enduring friendship.

Antonia’s uncle Paul Rosson wrote yesterday: ‘Thanks everyone for your prayers and thoughts. We are doing the best we can considering. They found her this morning holding her best friends hand. They went to heaven together so they didn’t have to be alone.’

All seven children who died at the school have now been identified and all came from the same third grade class. Taking shelter in the basement it is believed many drowned in water from leaking pipes.

The other five were named as Janae Hornsby, Sydney Angle, Nicolas McCabe and Christopher Legg and eight-year-old Kyle Davis

It was initially reported that the children died from drowning, but officials said the causes of death were mechanical asphyxiation, which is suffocation after being crushed by a heavy object.

The chief of the Moore Fire Department officially called off the search at the site of the school today.

They combed the debris three times and discovered no further victims beyond the seven discovered earlier in the week.

Of the remaining 17 victims Terri Long, 49, Shannon Quick, 40, Jenny Neely, 38, and Cindy Plumley and Deanna Ward, whose ages are unknown, also lost their lives.
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Lost: Nine-year-old Janae Hornsby was one of the children who died. Her father said she always had a smile on her face

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Victims: Kyle Davis, 8, and Sydney Angle, 9, were confirmed as deceased

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Victims: Kyle Davis, 8, and Sydney Angle, 9, were confirmed as deceased

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Confirmed: Officials confirmed today that 9-year-old Nicholas McCabe was among those deceased

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Family members said Jenny Neely was with her son Jacob when she died but no other details are forthcoming.

They also confirmed Megan Futrell, 29, and her five-month-old baby, Case Futrell were killed in an obliterated 7-Eleven store.

Four-year-old Karrina Varygas and her baby sister Sydnee Varygas, who was seven months, were also killed by blunt force trauma injuries when their house was ripped apart. Their mom Laurinda desperately tried to save them.

Authorities added that eight other adults aged between 39 and 65 died – mostly from blunt force trauma.
Local reports named one of those victims as 65-year-old as Hermant Bhonde, who became separated from his wife when the powerful force hit their home.

Relatives also named Tawauna Robinson.

Her daughter Angeletta Santiago wrote on Facebook: ‘Thanks to everyone for the kind words, prayers, and condolences. We have confirmed that my mother has been found and did not survive this deadly disaster… I just ask that you all please keep my family, my children, my siblings and I in your prayers.’

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When there are no words, there are tears.

May 23, 2013 / 14 Sivan 5773
by Sara Debbie Gutfreund

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I'll never forget the first time my daughter saw a homeless person sleeping in a cardboard box on the sidewalk in Manhattan. We were in a rush to meet friends at a restaurant, and I was winding our way through the crowds of pedestrians when I felt my daughter tug at my arm.

"Mommy, look. This man needs help. He's sleeping in a box! We have to stop! We have to give him something to eat. Or some money. Or both."

I didn't stop. I mumbled something about there being hundreds of homeless people sleeping on rags on every corner in the city. We can't feed all of them. We can't stop every time we see them. We were late.

I walked quicker and told her not to stare. But she couldn't seem to tear her eyes away every time we passed another homeless person on the next few corners. By the time we arrived at the restaurant, my daughter was almost in tears. I tried to explain to her that there were shelters and food kitchens and ways that we could think of to help without stopping every time we saw someone begging for money.

But the tears rolled down her cheeks anyway. "I'm just so sad for them. Why do some people have to live like that?"

I didn't have an answer, but suddenly, I wanted to cry with my daughter. When did I lose my ability to feel another's pain? When did I start to look away from suffering?

Sometimes there are no words. But there are tears. When the pain and the devastation are beyond what we can fathom, we may not be able to do say anything. We may not be able to do anything. But we can feel each other's pain. We may have no words, but we still have tears.

The Oklahoma tornado that hit leaves us speechless. The storm was 22 miles long with 200mph winds that devastated the town of Moore, Oklahoma, flattening homes, a hospital and two elementary schools.

At least 24 people were killed including nine children and the number of fatalities is expected to rise as the rescue teams search for survivors. Over a hundred people have been pulled alive from the rubble.

Plaza Towers elementary school was completely leveled, and parents walked for miles through the town's rubble to reach their children who were being pulled out of the debris. Neighborhood volunteers and parents formed a line to help pass the rescued children from one set of arms to another until all the surviving children had been carried to the triage center set up in a nearby parking lot.

One of the sixth grade teachers at Plaza Tower elementary school heroically lay down on top of her students to shield them from the rubble. "I was in a bathroom stall with some kids and it just started coming down, so I laid on top of them. I never thought I was going to die. The whole time I just kept screaming to them, 'We're going to be fine, we're going to be fine, I'm protecting you." All of Rhonda Crosswhite's students are now safe, and their parents credit their children's survival to their teacher's amazing courage.

There were tearful reunions at the elementary schools as parents searched frantically for their children and sobbed uncontrollably once they found them. For the parents whose children did not survive, the night was endless as they ran across the debris in a panic, holding onto their last vestiges of hope until the bodies were found. Whole city blocks were destroyed beyond recognition. Cars were tossed into trees and crumpled into piles. People's homes were reduced to splinters of wood in a matter of seconds.

There is no power and no water. There are hundreds of people still unaccounted for as the disaster teams try to clear away the rubble and treat the injured.

A family of four, including their baby, died in their home as they attempted to seek shelter in their freezer.

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The videos and photos of this devastating storm leave all of us without words. The thousands of people who are now homeless. The hundreds of people who cannot find their loved ones. The parents who lost their children. The town that has just been leveled to an unrecognizable pile of rubble. We may not be able to run and help. We may not be able to stop at every street corner. But we can feel the pain of the loss. We can stop for a moment and consider the enormity of the devastation.

There may be no answers. But there are tears. Our hearts go out to the town of Moore, Oklahoma as they struggle to pick up the pieces. We pray that more survivors will soon be found, and we pray for the recovery of the injured. May their homes, their schools, and their hospitals be rebuilt quickly and may they find comfort from their losses. Don't look away from those who are suffering even if there is nothing we can do, but cry with them. Even if just for a moment. We can't lose that sense of compassion that made my daughter stop in her tracks on the streets of Manhattan. We can't forget to feel for those who no longer have roofs over their heads as we sit in our own homes.

In a place of no words, there is the human heart. Feeling and grieving and breaking when we are faced with such an unbelievable sense of loss. And even when that is all we have to give, it is sometimes exactly what those who are suffering need the most.

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yes i now know it was concrete, i thought it was dirt and would wash away in the rain or something. Clearly i am a very girly girl.



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