So why did the reported number of deaths in the Oklahoma tornado change so dramatically?
As the sun set Monday night, the death toll was reported as 51. By midnight, the death
toll was being reported by several reputable media outlets as 91. Then by mid morning Tuesday, the official death toll was lowered to 24.
Numbers like this always change in a disaster like this, but it sounds like that when officials looked at what happened right after it happened, it looked like there were going to be more not fewer deaths.
And with the tornado being one of the strongest ever, you had to expect the death toll
to be larger than smaller.
Yet when all the counting was done, only 24, were dead. And with a tornado like this, the fact that only 24 people were killed is being called a miracle.
But there’s a case to be made it should have been even fewer.
That’s because of another couple of numbers.
Of the 260-thousand homes in Oklahoma County, only 64-hundred of them have storm shelters.
Guess you could say the people in Oklahoma are luckier than they are smart.





