For years, people in Oklahoma have loved to debate the moment a well-known TV meteorologist told viewers to get in their cars and drive away from the May 3rd Bridge Creek Moore tornado. It comes up every spring. Someone brings it up, someone calls it bad advice, and the argument starts all over again.
Here is the honest take. It was not automatically bad advice for that exact moment in time.
The people in the path of that tornado had a rare thing in Oklahoma. Time. The storm track was known. The metro is huge. Entire parts of Oklahoma City were not in danger. For some families, leaving their homes and heading to a safer part of the metro absolutely worked…