Wiley told The Times that weather service staff were out Saturday examining the damage to determine how many tornadoes touched down.Among the nine dead were seven adults and two children, including a mother and a baby, according to Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner. Elliott said most of the fatalities were in western suburbs of Oklahoma City Coach Outlet including Union City, Yukon and El Reno, where a tornado touched down late Friday. She told Cheap Toms The Times that she had no immediate word of additional fatalities.At least 75 people were hurt, according to Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Keli Cain.Cain told The Times she was not sure how many of the injuries were critical, and that emergency management officials were still coping with the remnants of the storms Saturday. We re still seeing a lot of flooding and we still have a lot of power outages in the Oklahoma City area, Cain said.More than 98,000 people in the capital were still without power Saturday, and more than 100,000 statewide, she said. Surrounding areas had flooded, too, including tornado-ravaged Moore. There s been pretty much nonstop weat Louboutin Pas Cher her of some kind for the past two weeks so that s definitely impacted the recovery efforts in Moore, Cain said.Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City closed and evacuated the terminal ahead of the storms as a tornado passed by. It reopened at 3 a.m. and many flights resumed Saturday, said airport spokeswoman Karen Carney, among those forced to take shelter and wait out the storms. We didn t have a direct hit by the tornado but we had winds of 70 to 80 miles per hour so we had some damage to the terminal building, the corner of a roof blown off, a plane blown into a jet bridge, Carney told The Times. She said some hangars also sustained significant damage, and there were parking ca Cheap Toms nopies and street lights down in the area.Tom Louden, incident commander for the Salvation Army handling their response to the Moore tornado, said his staff of 75 were out helping the latest tornado victims Saturday. It was just such a violent and extended storm, it went on for hours, Louden said from Oklahoma City.Overnight, he said he sent a team with food and a generator to aid players in the Women's College World Series of softball stuck without power at a local hotel. The event was postponed Saturday as Louden's teams moved into areas west of the capital struck by tornadoes.He said they were seeing lots and lots of debris--roofs, walls, trees, cars. This disaster actually had a double edge to it where the wind from the tornado definitely had an impact but the flooding has also had an impact. It s a little of a two-pronged disaster. To the south, Moore also had flooding and outages, he said. We were in the process of moving from relief to recovery. Now with the loss of electricity a lot of that food we distributed there is spoiling and we re going to have to go back and provide more relief, Louden told The Times.Violent weather also moved through the St. Louis area overnight, downing power lines, flooding roads, ripping off porches and tearing into roofs, including Hollywood Casino in suburban of Maryland Heights.The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year and most are relatively small. Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes recorded since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been hit the most seven times each, including the latest tornado in Moore.Tornado season usually begins in March, but got a late start this year as cool weather staved off formation of funnel clouds until mid-May, Wiley said. He said the chance for a repeat of Friday s Midwest storms was low Saturday as a cold front moves through the region. It looks like for the next few days they re going to have favorable conditions for the ongoing recovery, Wiley said.ALSO:Tornados hit Oklahoma againFour Houston firefighters killed: 'Like losin Longchamp Outlet g a family member'Teens, adults get into 'really ugly' fight at kindergarten graduationmolly.hennessy-fiske@latimes.comTwitter: @mollyhf
