My home town, Taylorville IL got hit by an F3 on December 1 2018. The damage is unbelievable. It will take years for this small mid-western town to recover. My home is about 1/8 mile from where the tornado entered town I sustained minimal damage. Over 700 homes and businesses were damaged and the landscape is changed forever as any trees in its path are gone. Pictures do not capture the destruction. Google it for some pictures. Jim
The city where I was born and raised...Joplin Missouri in 2011. What stuck me the most when I was there helping family were the huge mounds of wood pulp that used to houses, and the mountains of crushed cars. Yeah, you take EF5 tornadoes seriously.
...over time, more development means more targets... My one and only experience in '70s: Tornado "cleared" woods on back of our country property. Made evening news when took roof off shopping center in 'burbs. For us was valuable lesson in identifying, force, randomness, which I hope to never experience again. We had a stand of Lady Slippers in that woods that never grew again. That could have been us...
Ha....i got hit from a EF-3 tornado two years ago this august......not fun re-building but the Cat's Lair was spared.....NO Windows may have kept the roof on and my 'Cats safe ! Thank you Lord ! Brick houses are a good bet also... Peace WildBill p.s....ceilings where the roof is gone fell a couple hours after picture was taken
P.S.......these are not getting worse...it's not global warming......it's just Mother Nature ......just check out the Palm Sunday tornados that struck Kokomo and the rest of Indiana in 1965. https://www.weather.gov/ind/palmsuntor Peace WildBill
Exactly. It has always happened. US gets something like 95 percent of the worlds tornadoes. Also probably the most hurricanes, floods etc. Perfect scenario of cool air coming off the Rockies meeting incredibly humid and warm air off the Gulf of Mexico and Bam, tornado central. There you have it. Always has happened here and always will. Plain and simple, Americans are the toughest sons of a B’s in the world. Toughest weather and toughest people. We take it like no one else and still come out on top. Stay tough out there.
Driving to BPG Nationals in Ohio several years ago when it still existed. I was driving through Ohio And I couldn’t understand why traffic stopped. Sky was black and there were thunderstorms. I could see sunlight in distance. I looked ahead and saw a tornado spinning in a field about a mile ahead. Talk about terror. Alone driving my truck and pulling an enclosed trailer with my GSX inside. Holy crap. It went back up in the clouds and traffic started to move again. I was never happier than when I drove into that sunlight.
its been especially bad this last few weeks for severe storms here in SW Oklahoma . more tornados than usual and so much flooding . escaped anything really bad so far . did have a tornado hit my house 7 years ago but only did $10,000 of damage .
I was driving home From knoebels on I 80 Sunday early evening. With the camper. Got off I 80 in Emlenton. It was right in front of me. Pulled off and watched the Dark mass. Right above the truck stop. 10 min. then drove down rt. 38 went home. Then Realized when i watched the 11.00 news. That Parker Pa. got hit by that tornado.
Hard to believe that bridge on I 80. is the highest suspended bridge east of the mississippi. Once that storm passed over that deep canyon. It touched down.
Hah! Funny you should say that. That’s exactly what the guy said in Parker. On the news. He heard it coming.
