But first, let me take a selfie

Yesterday, in a some what shocking train of events, tornado like conditions ripped through much of Northern Texas, namely Denton, Texas. Denton sustained extraneous amounts of damage from hail smashing car windshields to 82 mile per hour winds destroying parts of student dorms on the University of North Texas campus. There was terentious rainfall and overall damaging and very unsafe weather conditions. Though a tornado never actually touched ground in Denton, the hurricane-force winds did enough damage, it might as well have touched down. 

The North Texas Daily kept the students up to date during the storm and is continuing to inform the students of the aftermath of the storm. 

This is some of the damage done to West Hall, the dorm that was hit the hardest during the storm. 

This is some of the flooding that occurred on campus during the initial wave of the storm. 

UNT students took to Twitter and Facebook to keep up to date about the conditions and how their fellow students were handling the terrible weather. Students shared photos and brief stories about how they were taking shelter. 

But the excitement of the evening didn't come from the floods or the broken windshields, oh no. The excitement and drama, came when it became apparent that even in the time of a severe storm, technology and social media still seem to reign supreme.  

Tornado sirens were wailing and hail pounded and shattered, windows students huddled together to calm their nerves and make the best of the situation. All the while, the winds and storms raged, students remained light hearted and even engaged in a little "selfie" taking. As following the latest trend of the tune "but first, let me take a selfie" song, the students snapped selfies in their dorm hallways or basements of academic buildings. Twitter and Instagram flooded in tornado selfies during the 40 minutes the weather was tragic. 

One student even Tweeted Ellen his selfie with his friends, in honor of Ellen's legendary selfie that took place at the 2014 Oscar's that actually broke Twitter for a few minutes. The gust of retweets sent it spiraling out of control. UNT selfies didn't exactly break Twitter, but they gained a lot of notice during #Tornado2k14

This is simply just another example of the power of social media can sometimes far outweigh the power of external factors.

Tornadoes didn't bother them anyway.

Until next time,
Nikki