[.45 Long Colt]

One of the many things my grandfather said about the F5 Tri-State Tornado was that blades of grass and pieces of straw were driven deep into tree trunks like nails. I’ve got dozens of old photos of the devastation from the communities in Southern Illinois. If I told someone they were pictures of Hiroshima or Nagasaki they would believe me.

[central_va]

This is how you can tell an f5. Here is a picture from Jarrell Tx. The asphalt and grass have been sucked up. An f5 is like a huge vacuum cleaner.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Sounds exactly like my father told me of the 1925 tornado in So. IL. Very chilling.