[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Blueblaze

I grew up in Tulsa and built a home in Sapulpa. I about cracked a rib laughing at the Hollyweird actors trying to pronounce it. They made Sapulpa seem like some remote outpost of civilization, but it's really just a large suburb on the west side of Tulsa.

There is also no "University of Muskogee", which is weird because half the small towns in Oklahoma have a college, so why did they have to make one up? Northeastern has a small campus in Muskogee, but no weather science program I am aware of. OSU in Stillwater has one of the best in the country, but the rodeo was the only thing they had to say about Stillwater.

Believe it or not, we don't have a tornado every day in Oklahoma. I have personally seen three in my life. I never saw the one that removed half my roof in Glenpool, and you usually can't see them for the rain. The devastation is rarely anything like the movie. None of my close neighbors had any damage at all. My insurance rate didn't even go up afterwards. And, although it's true that cars don't make great protection, it's really stupid to leave the safety of a car to run 100 yards to the nearest overpass. Cars can easily outrun a tornado, which rarely move at more than 10 mph.

The scene where they all ran frantically from a diner to hide in a swimming pool was especially hilarious. Restaurants have walk-in refrigerators, which are the safest places you can be during a tornado. We once took refuge in a pizza joint's walkin, in Tulsa.

But the outdoor scenes were authentically Oklahoma, unlike the California desert that Hollyweird usually tries to pass off as Oklahoma. It made me a little homesick.

It was a fun movie. Completely BS Hollyweird thrill ride fun, though.

Thanks for sharing. Leaving a car to go under an overpass made no sense to me either