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Then a section of a roof blew over me and just shredded apart mid-air. Nykeil was a plant janitor who lived on Moody Avenue in Oak Lawn. We were all trapped. At about 5 pm, I started hearing about a storm system off to the west. Thunberg's dig at Tate has been praised by many, but some people have accused her of body-shamed him. His grandparents were farmers and among Oak Lawns earliest settlers. You could see the roof of the lady down the street just spinning in the tornado and I really thought we would all die. Tornado victims include 2-month-old, district judge, a father and son, factory and warehouse workers "I'm going to miss her crying in the middle of the night," baby's father said. I was bleeding and it felt like my ankle was broken but I was alive. I was very thankful that I had closed my swimming pool the weekend prior to that. They had been sitting on their porch and saw the funnel and ran. It sounded more like a jet engine sound than a train approaching. Birmingham employees were working Saturday morning to help clean up debris left in the wake of Thursday's tornado in Selma. Haggan lived for many years in the Irish community near 63rd Street and Laflin in Chicago. She noticed the shaking and understood why it was happening. As soon as we shut the door, we hear what sounded like a freight train. Visually the siding looks fine with a few dents, but with no loose sections or panels, I would just as soon keep what we have had for 40 years. ". I remember being in the living room with several family members, aunts and cousins. Angela added: Like everybody says, it was like a roar and it shifted the house where we were at and almost made us fall into the basement.". Storm . SHREVEPORT, La. I held onto the steering wheel for dear life. I pushed one more time and was able to create enough space to breathe. I sighed a breath of relief hoping the twister had skipped over the shop. He never regained consciousness. After my father got pulled out with the help of everyone that was around, someone performed CPR but there was no saving his life. "We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians and probably end up 70 to 100," Beshear continued. The Jones & Robinson Families. Table 3 shows that when the Yancheng tornado occurred, 55.3% of the victims chose to flee indoors and 20.2% of the victims chose to use their bodies to hold the doors and windows.. 2-month-old baby one of 12 children killed in devastating Kentucky tornadoes; rescue workers wade through rubble Ryan W. Miller and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY 12/14 . We were hollaring out to God for help & he helped us! The City of Birmingham has announced a supply drive to help victims of a tornado that hit Selma on Thursday, leaving heavy damage in its wake. John died . I was not with him when the incident took place. Be weather aware. And she said "because it's a tornado." My car, parked outside, was bent and hammered mercilessly, yet all the glass survived; while the rear end of the same neighbor's car was hammered only lightly, as it was inside their garage and the hail had only come in through the windows of the garage door; but both tail lights and the back window were broken out. My teacher said, "class, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore." Fast forward to November 11 2002, Mossy Grove, TN. I say to my friends, I see lightning, but there is no thunder, no rain, no nothing. The hail within it was chomping up the branches of shrub oak and Ponderosa pine, mixing them with blasted up dirt and grass, and spewing them out like missiles. At approximately 4:30 pm the rain stopped and there was an eerie silence followed by the patter of what sounded like hail on the metal roof of the shop. Their widows recognized each other when they met again in the same funeral home. Nineteen severe hail reports were recorded in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. This was the 90s before camera phones were a thing. Minutes after the snap was taken, the family members were carried dozens of yards through the air and into a field. Then it hit me that I was some 80 ft from where the bathroom once stood and was out in the parking lot in front of the shop. That corner of the church was still there after it was over. It was like a war zone. It had touched down in Omaha, but the sirens were late and that it has moved out of the park. This particular day we had had a NOAA tornado watch. Poor Nana was at church that night along with a bunch of other family and my cousin Linda got up with her newborn to get a drink from the water fountain near the entrance. ya gc qg uc ur mr. or. I could see the semi that was behind me had blown over top of me and landed next to the carport. The tornado rolled their car. I dropped the saw,which stuck straight up in the ground, and gracefully slid down the ladder, which I am a grizzly bear of a man at 285 lbs with the height (5'7") and heart of a teddy bear. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. To this day I tear up realizing they thought we might not make it that day. But it took out the northeast side of town. According to a relative, Calascibetta was a good, quiet family man. They hadn't seen any storms on their maps and clearly thought me demented. I'm working on a plan. There wasn't any. Brian Kemp said Friday. He had no broken bones and his body was still intact. The tornado cut a path through the woods directed behind the house, maybe 10 feet, and continued until the whole town seemed to have been torn down. Then I peeked out the deck door and saw nothing but leaves. People really need to pay attention to the forecast, especially in spring time. The assessor came out today (Saturday) to check out the property. Tornado victims prepare for more storms. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. NWS She had dark hair which she wore in bangs and comforting eyes, her father told reporters. Discovery Company. I was confused and very thirsty. Her funeral Mass was held St. Francis Xavier Church in LaGrange. Sandra told the Associated Press: Their house is splintered. I didnt hear thunder at all. Everyone was panicking. Someone was definitely watching out for me. I could feel the back of the truck lifting. My father's friend made it out with cuts and bruises. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long. We were all just standing there watching it. I wiped the blood from my eyes and saw a 1965 Pontiac Catalina next to me. Although severe summer storms occur, the tornado is rarely experienced in our area. It ws April 4, 2007, around 6 pm, when my father passed away shortly after a tornado hit Haltom City, TX. My dog would just stand in the yard and howl for hours those entire 3 days as well as acting off in other ways. I walked around more or less like a zombie shaking and trembling, looking at the other two semis that had blown over. Cody was a semi-retired insurance adjuster. Coming home from school one day, I saw a dark blue to gray cloud coming towards my house. While it continues to assess the damage, Red Cross . Here are the victims stories, taken from historical newspapers at the Oak Lawn Public Librarys Local History room: Golden was a salesman and a devoted husband and father of three. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated EF-3, meaning gusts of at least 136 mph the weather service said. She had blonde hair and wore a black body stocking, thigh high boots, and white gloves. Didnt do any damage to speak of. The sandblasting effect they endured is well documented and the injuries were horrific. It just beat everything to smithereens. It took about 2 years or so to get all the roofing jobs done in town. We got in the center part of the house when all the doors blew open. appreciated. We started the journey to the basement and upon getting down the stairs, saw the basement was completely flooded except for one small spot in the far corner that was on a hill. Now the only time I shake is because I still get butterflies everytime I see her come through the door. When their son grew up and moved away, their house on Chicagos South Side became too big for Ernie and Karleen Gunnarson to manage. You could tell from the sirens and helicopters that it was really bad! Reception was cutting in and out as cell towers were apparently being disabled, with calls being picked up on other towers by the tornado while we talked. Casey and her darling daughter Christine will go home together to God.. Thankfully we made it safely and spent part of the night at the hospital. Alfred drove a forklift for Caterpillar in Joliet. They were standing outside while sirens were going off looking at the green skies when things got unusually calm and quiet. We all were surprised considering it was still sunny out. The body. I don't know how long it took me to calm down and regain my senses but I finally went back to record a video walkthrough of the damage. It was partly cloudy and warm but it turned cool so quickly that I thought it was over and I walked back inside my house. The devastation is real. My wifes sister and husband got in their inside hallway and rode out the storm as we were describing its location while monitoring the radar on WHIO on TV. The weather channel was calling for some rough weather so my mum, dad, brother and I went to my aunt and uncle's house not far from us because they had a basement and phoned us asking us to come over just in case. A neighbor went to Johnson-Phelps VFW where Bernard and Bernadettes bodies had been taken. Christine had written to airlines asking for information on becoming an airline stewardess. The third-grader and her siblings sought shelter in a windowless bathroom before the storms hit. As I tore through the porch, into the house and north, down the hall, the windows along the west wall exploded, one by one, to my left and just a fraction of a second behind me. Workers survey tornado damage after extreme weather hit the region Dec. 12, 2021, in Mayfield, Ky. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images. Terry and I were watching a reported tornado path north of us that was traveling east of Greenville across Miami County. It was extremely odd to see paper debris from Alabama falling from the skies in TN. Tim Samaras, 55, was found dead still belted into the mangled wreck, while the bodies of his son, 24, and Young, 45, were flung a quarter-mile away in opposite directions." In adjacent Dallas County, a huge tornado caused widespread destruction in Selma, home to about 17,000 people. For me, the sound of the nuclear plant sirens being used as tornado sirens was the scariest. I sat by a wall in my classroom that was mostly glass windows and there was some communication between classrooms that our county was under warning, but we never went into the hallway. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much Be safe folks. Roofs are just gone, trees look like toothpicks.. No rain, no breeze, just the saw rumbling and vibrating my hand. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. Everybody in town had to have a new roof. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration They huddled together in the bathroom and feared they were going to die. The storms marked the latest bout of severe weather to turn deadly in the US as experts point to the human-induced climate crisis as a cause for such extreme events. A moaning. The tornado jumped over our house and took a few shingles off with it. At the roller rink before the tornado leveled the building, she told a boy she knew that no matter what happens, dont cry for me. When building began to shake, she was holding the hand of another little girl when she reportedly said, I think Im going to die. More than 300 people attended Christines funeral at Schmaedtke-Tuinstra Funeral Home. It was a rainstorm of hail and the wind was up. A semi-truck driver, Jackson was off work due to a trucker strike. The Selma tornado was rated EF-2, the weather service said. It was June 1st of 2011 when a Tornado touched down that would affect the lives of many and take the lives of three. She had burrowed under that concrete slab to take cover. It wasnt immediately clear whether that was reflected in the toll. 6-year-old boy is youngest victim of Alabama tornado that left 23 dead. Our neighbors to the north reported hail went through their roof and embedded in their hardwood floor.