George Riley was sitting down eating dinner Friday night inside an office at Jack’s Memory Chapel near the corner of 36th Street North and Peoria.
The funeral director had been keeping an eye on the news as televised weather reports and the piercing sound of warning sirens signaled that a tornado was in the area.
He felt the building start to shake. “I didn’t know it was directly over us,” Riley told The Eagle Saturday. “Hail was hitting the windows and the wind was roaring,” he said. Then the lights went out.
North Tulsa was hit hard by a band of severe storms that began Friday evening. Preliminary data from the National Weather Service indicated multiple tornado tracks, the Tulsa World reported. The day after, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt declared a state of emergency for eight counties including Tulsa, Okmulgee and Rogers…