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Poor town of Tanner, Alabama got nailed twice within 30 minutes by back-to-back F5 tornados.
Brandenburg KY got hit hard. I lived near Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox, remember the medevac choppers coming in and out.
A tornado demolished my wife’s high school and the Court House in Monticello , In . That day .
State Farm Insurance ran ads for years based upon the tornado that hit Xenia Ohio in that outbreak.
I remember that day. We lived west of Indianapolis in Hendricks county. All the bad storms went around us. The Xenia tornado was big news.
I was living in Frankfort, KY then.
I was in 1st grade in AL. Remember it vaguely, but remember the tornado drills we had the next few years very well!
That’s just an excellent video, thanks for posting. Well worth watching.
Bad weather saved the life of the man who would become famous for trying to protect people from bad weather.
Even more coincidentally, when he went to survey the damage at Nagasaki, he noted something that would be key to his storm research more than 30 years later. The trees at ground zero were still standing, while those further away had been blown outward, leaving a starburst pattern.
That was the seed that grew into his theory of microbursts.
I remember this date, although we weren’t in a official tornado, the winds whipped hard enough to twist and then fell a huge 80 ft oak tree parallel to our house. Had it fell otherwise, it could have bisected our house with us kids eating our hamburger and fries.
Our mom was watching the storm while we ate and saw the tree swaying back and forth, each time further and further. She told us preteen kids to head to the hallway and she took one of our bed mattress and lean it against the wall.We loved it. We felt a big temor and boom but ignored it as just thunder and lightning.
When the storm passed and we were finished eating,vwe we’re shocked to see the massive oak lying on its side.
We made it our own playground set until Pop started cutting it for firewood.
We had a lot of firewood that winter!
Epic day! Had a friend and boss from near Brandenburg, KY who remembers looking up at the sky from his basement after they took a direct hit. They found some of his parents canceled checks hundreds of miles away in Ohio.
1974. During THE COMING ICE AGE hysteria.
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Best compilation of all the tornadoes that day. My roommate’s house was leveled. We were away at school at Marian in Indianapolis. Took a long time to call home to find out we only had hail damage. I cannot recall how long it took to get a hold of his mother.