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Posted on 06/21/2026 2:34:23 PM PDT by Paul R.
An Effingham tornado damaged or destroyed about 60 properties, including a museum housing historic Corvettes. No deaths were reported as the recovery begins.
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“What is the difference between a porcupine and a Corvette? The Corvette has the pricks on the inside!”
Found that joke while looking up the Corvette Mystery Engine.
The can be restored if he had them insured for their true value as classics.
The museum or the sinkhole? If you look down about sixty feet you can see the 1969 Stingray...
As one car dealer said to another.
“That’s horrible” and after a pause, “how do you arrange a tornado?”
It was rated as an EFfing3.
Here's a video:
Corvette Museum Sinkhole reporting
They may call that onr in Illinois a museum, but it sounded to me that it was a corvette & Vw parts plant, with some corvettes in it. Still a shame though.
You’re both absolutely right! Heh.
Fire started at the back of the Pinto museum.
You’re telling it wrong: “The porcupine has pricks on the outside” is the punchline.
No, that one was in KY. But, even so, the odds of one such museum, and then another, getting whacked, would SEEM very low...
“Tornado Alley” has shifted east, at least “by the numbers”.
There have been a lot of warnings in more or less the same “corridor”, today, tho’ I’m unaware of any major damage so far.
Yes indeed. The storms are supposed to form into more of a solid line as they get further south / approach us, so that reduces the tornado risk but increases the wide area straight line high winds’ risk.
A parts plant plus ‘vette collection? Agreed tho’, still a shame...
As an older (than I was at the time) engineer once told me “ANYTHING can be done with enough money.”
Big if...
BiXiden’s fault.
Oddly I think the insurance on those beautiful machines would be not that high. They are in a museum and not driven. Thus the cost should be just their value without factoring in the chance of a car wreck. I hope he had that insurance. They are beautiful machines to admired for many future generations.
It is probably the museum tied in with Mid-America Corvette.
Illinois has had some devastating tornadoes in recent decades. The Oak Lawn tornado of 1967 and Joliet 1990 come to mind.
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