Every time I’m out by M-45 and Wilson I just imagine what that must have been like. There wasn’t much out there back then, but today, another one of those in the same place will really leave a mark.
My dad’s family, like many, drove out there the next day to see the utter destruction. I just dont think people around here think it can happen again. Lots of young people live over there now, and have no idea that it did.
Good stuff. (I’m 50% Dutch-ancestry & live on the south-western shoreline near Grand Haven.)
My GF lived through the Standale tornado as a child. She was right downtown when the weather started getting really ominous. Her Dad got out of work early, he raced downtown and they barely escaped the area before it was devastated.