Bernice and Alfred Andrews met in high school. They said they could see a black cloud approaching them fast and then the hail hit. Three members of a family in Cookeville, Tenn., were identified by family and friends as among those killed in the Putnam County twister. Mrs. Jucius met her husband, Frank, at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital where she worked as a laboratory technician. The wind was going in a way that I've never seen before. Her funeral Mass was held St. Francis Xavier Church in LaGrange. Welser and his wife, Annmarie, met a dance at 57th Street and Sacramento. Parts of the state were under a tornado watch Thursday night. All she could do was yell out for me because all phone lines and electric was down and their was dangerous debris. My friends and I were sitting on her porch talking and having a wonderful time. The tornado splintered their home less than a week after Trey and Meghan moved in. I unfortunately got "sucked" into one of them.The most severe Tornado was an EF3 that was on the ground for 30 minutes and 15 miles. Then the lights went out. It was a devastatingly unforgettable event! Many of the human remains were never recovered at all." My cell phone rang and my parents had been coming back to town right about where the storm began. What to know about the deadly tornado outbreak. Casey and her darling daughter Christine will go home together to God.. McNeill had spent the afternoon painting a chain link fence at his home on Meade Avenue, when he told his wife, Mary, that he was going to the store to pick up a few things. McNeills son found his fathers car lying wrecked across the street from Fairway Super Mart. Tons of debris in the cover. He opened his arms and I hugged that man so hard he tapped my shoulder because I was squeezing him. First responders found them in the mud. zb. I asked my mom "why?" Someone was definitely watching out for me. The tornado picked us up with the hardwood floor and landed us 250 feet across the street! Very disturbing, especially with continuous lightning but NO thunder. He was an active man and involved in church and civic activities. The cloud had a small funnel looking cloud inside of it. Both men were from the Lithuanian community in Marquette Park. She was still holding the baby. I was confused and very thirsty. 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. Roofing companies from every state in the union set up temporary camp here in town. A day earlier, a weather service meteorologist said the Selma tornado may have been on the ground for at least 50 miles. Recovery and search efforts continued in the South on Friday, a day after severe storms and tornadoes raked the region, killing at least nine people, blowing roofs off homes and cutting power for thousands. It just beat everything to smithereens. Goldens funeral mass was held at St. Germaine. Bernice was active in church, where she taught Sunday School and was a member of the junior choir. We later found out that another tornado had formed over Englewood to our north and east and moved southeast, as our tornado continued on east to cross I-75 and north Dayton and into Riverside. They were ok. My parents came home- they had seen piles of hail and debris on the roads, but they hadn't seen the storm. My father's friend made it out with cuts and bruises. 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. Another fatality occurred at a dollar store in Leachville, Arkansas. He was badly injured. The state patrol came to get my husband to help clear some of the roads. The one kept by his only daughter, Frieda, still has shards of glass from that day. So graceful wasn't typically used to describe me. Kathryn Begay. At 13, Christine was an old soul. Bernice was found dead with the puppy still in her arms. eo. It was weird because as a little kid I probably wouldn't know what a supercell was. So I told everybody as usual to take shelter until the lightning stopped. As storm damage blocked roads in Georgia, some students couldnt leave four middle schools south of Atlanta, their school system said Thursday night. It was still 12 inches deep when the plows finally arrived. Water rose, and homes that you never would have expected to flood did. My mind was racing with a million thoughts, regrets, prayers, etc., but I still noticed the pressure change and could feel air from under the door as it blew in towards me, then sucked back out of the room. I asked if he and his wife, or "ole lady" as he called her,were ok. Tornado victims prepare for more storms. I called my brother who lived nearby. 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. I remember my adrenaline even as a child being just through the roof. 'Odds And Ends' To Borrow Showcased At Oak Lawn Library Thing Fair, Oak Lawn Spartan Wrestler Shoots For Personal Best In Senior Year, Upskirt Peeper | Right Place, Right Time | Teen Slain In Homewood, Chicagoland Lionel Railroad Club January 21 2023 Open House, DePaul's Master of Arts in Applied Professional Studies Information Session, More Checks Stolen And Washed From Bridgeview Post Office, 2023 Income Tax Season Opens In IL: When To File 2022 Returns With IRS. Were still trying to figure things out. Thursdays severe storms left about 40,000 homes and businesses still in the dark Friday morning across Georgia and Alabama, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us. The day had been beautiful, we were going to my husband's mother's house for a cookout. As I drove home, the closer I got, the worse things looked. The door flew open and I look outside while we are interlocking arms to make sure we try to stay together. She had burrowed under that concrete slab to take cover. Please Contact Us. I opened my eyes and moved part of the ceiling truss that had concussed me. I had gone to the local Little Caesar Pizza place at the halftime of the Dallas Cowboy Philadelphia Eagle game tp get a pizza for the game. A powerful storm front slammed into the historic city . Prevention. turned on cuz joplin's gone, theres bodies twisted in my lawn!brains hanging out, flesh eating fungus, weaponized, no doubt,walking,stepping,c. 6-year-old boy is youngest victim of Alabama tornado that left 23 dead. Millions in California are reeling from weeks of flooding rain that has killed at least 18 people and left thousands without power. Bernard and his wife bought their home in Oak Lawn the year before. That corner of the church was still there after it was over. 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. At that point the TV went out and the lights started flashing on and off and on and off. 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. Usually you hear thunder. Instead of going to the Jewel Tea Co. Store at 5807 W. 95th St., she stopped at Fairway Super Mart first. It leveled several of the brick homes in that neighborhood. I could see the semi that was behind me had blown over top of me and landed next to the carport. I remember taking in a deep breath and hugging my friend and running over to my moms house and making sure she was alright. MOORE, Okla. - Twenty-five people were killed in the tornado that tore through Moore May 20, 2013. It was an unforgettable event. (Subsequently to this event, and after our own event described below, there was another tornado (EF-0) that passed 3 miles south of their home for a few miles.). 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." He was parked at 95th Street and Southwest Highway waiting for his wife, who was a secretary at the Western Avenue Hearing Aid Center. Afraid we might be burned alive if the house, above and beside us, burned. Columbia-St. David's Round Rock Hospital said it had received 14 tornado victims from Cedar Park, . All I see is rain and what appeared to be smoke swirling around. It busted out their windshields and the car got picked up and thrown in a ditch. Haggan planned to celebrate his 52nd birthday the next day by driving his wife home from the hospital. Our street was littered with paper, siding, tree limbs, etc., but we sustained very minor damage over all. This is an ongoing fund to support the critical needs of victims due to a disaster. A tornado damaged businesses Thursday in downtown Selma, Alabama. I was looking outside through the closed door because I saw leaves that were in my backyard and my neighbors backyard and I was like "Whoa, the leaves are floating! Then a section of a roof blew over me and just shredded apart mid-air. Then I realized he was crying- probably shrieking- and I couldn't hear him over the noise of the storm: roaring wind, pounding hail and constant, overlapping blasts and rumbles of lightning. Lightening can and it will strike twice, three, four times in the same spot. 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. She asked about damage and I told her that I didnt hear any glass breaking, or movement upstairs which was a good thing. Father and son saw the funnel cloud a few blocks away. The surge of twistersthat struck Kentuckyleft up to 100 people dead and 60,000 without power or electricity. Where I was working the hail was prominent but only pea sized. It was then that heard the rumble of the notorious freight train. Then I went back to my pickup truck which was still running and started to pick up some of the debris and nails so I could drive out of there. I found her a flashlight, and scoped the inside of the house. Roofs are just gone, trees look like toothpicks.. He would claw through the rubble well into the night, calling his wifes name until his voice was gone. She suffered a stroke and brain swelling and passed away from her injuries. We go outside and looked on our little community. In the frenzy of taking cover, we forgot about my dog in the backyard. He lived on Harnew Road East. They huddled together in the bathroom and feared they were going to die. Some of my friends almost died because large trees fell. 10 children were killed, including two infants. No rain, no winds, just a deep calm and quiet. As I tore into the house through the west door of the sun porch, and reflexively slammed the door closed behind me, the hail chewed into the screen door, and the wood above me. Later that night, I found mail in my yard from Cullman, Alabama. It scared me because she was so loud and said to get in the car now. When the stores plate glass windows flew in, Fred told the Sun-Times he ran with his son toward the back of the store. Paulina Porizkova, 57, Just Posted A Pic Of Her Strong Glutes in a Thong Bikini. As a side note I had never seen her act like that before or after that time period. Also the north side of our house was sand blasted with shredded leaves and debris, but the other sides of the house were clean. Hearses carrying the bodies of tornado victims leave St. Gerald's after a mass funeral. On Dec. 13, a tornadic storm swept through Keithville, La., with possible EF-2 damage with 130-mph winds, according to the National . Untouched and no water damage or cracks to the outside. His body was found in the Fairway rubble. I slammed it shut as the power went out. My storm chasing bug is gone, John. Browse 937 tornado victims stock photos and images available, or search for disaster relief to find more great stock photos and pictures. 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. That relief was short lived as in the next few seconds I heard the train sound, which actually sounded like a thrashing machine metal being chewed up, indescribable actually. It was over in just a few minutes, and when things had subsided I went out back and saw insulation on the ground and new that buildings must have been damaged. In Alabama, Selma City Schools said in a statement many of the districts families had been displaced by the storm. Haggan lived for many years in the Irish community near 63rd Street and Laflin in Chicago. A deadly EF5 tornado struck the suburbs of Oklahoma City, Okla. on Monday, taking 24 lives. "We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians and probably end up 70 to 100," Beshear continued. There was vivid and continuous lightning, the sounds of the winds increased quite a bit, and we heard thumping on the back decks, the north side of the house, and big thumps in the front and above us. She ran and dove into the pews while the tornado moved and twisted the church off its foundation. I told myself everything would be OK. Then just as suddenly as it had come, the noise was gone; except for a dull roar and the rumbling of lightning moving northeast, like the sound of a big truck with no muffler, driving away at two miles per hour. Golden had switched his sedan for a co-workers station wagon, so he could take his 12-year-old son and some other boys on a Boy Scout outing that weekend. I knew John Mobley as a preteen, said Cindy Mobley, Rogers wife. appreciated. To this day I tear up realizing they thought we might not make it that day. Searches continued Friday in Autauga County as officials still werent sure everyone who may have lived in damaged homes was accounted for, state emergency management official Ricky Adams told CNN Friday. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated EF-3 , meaning gusts of at least 136 mph - the weather service said . yr bt. I held onto the steering wheel for dear life. The holes were all about 2-4 inches in diameter. The tornado that killed dozens in Kentucky arrived after warnings. As we hit the cellar floor I heard a large thump that shook the house. In retrospect, that toilet not being secured is probably what saved me as I think I was traveling with the debris in the twister. Adjustors set up tents in the mall parking lot for you to drive your car into to assess damage assembly-line style. I have to say that praying and getting into that closet most likely saved our lives that night. According to a relative, Calascibetta was a good, quiet family man. Its in your carport." Two-year-old Cathy and her sister Barbara, 4, turned up in the hospital. I was 7 and knew it must be serious. My best friends dad was standing on his truck with a pair of binoculars trying to see where it might be. His nephew Michael Hembry told CBS42: He (Jimmie) come back and he said Golden didnt make it. Finally, I managed to phone my wife at work but she can't pick up so I left a voicemail that she still has. It had been raining hard most of the afternoon. I headed to the bathroom and watched the blood red cell on radar as lights went out and cellular reception was lost. I could not understand what it was saying but I assumed it meant tornado. I was visiting my friends in town when I noticed that on TV it showed a tornado warning headed for Skiatook. But when it was over at least 89 lay dead, 600 were injured, and thousands of homes and . qy. I could barely walk. The sandblasting effect they endured is well documented and the injuries were horrific. My house is white. After conducting an aerial tour of the damage, the mayor grew emotional as he talked about the communities that were hit including the neighborhood he grew up in that was ravaged. The mobile home stopped shaking. You dont notice things right away. His family was his whole life.. David was skating at the Oak Lawn Roller Rink when a wall of the building collapsed down on him. A moment later, just like that, all around me was wind and it got real dark. It took about 2 years or so to get all the roofing jobs done in town. The entire home shook and we ducked and huddled together. The River Region United Way has created a Disaster Relief Fund. I am lucky to be alive for sure. I knew there was a storm coming; you could just feel it and smell the rain. They pulled away the wreckage where they found Leslie alive in the rubble. I worked at a hardware store and although we weren't directly hit, 2 inch PVC pipe was sucked from outdoor racks and shot 14 inches into a neighboring yard. The pastor called her death the will of God.. Hunoway had a nice house with a big yard. What a foolish thing to say, especially since Mossy Grove almost got hit again later but the skies showed mercy that day and settled down almost as if it took pity on us and our non-Walmart or McDonalds town. Again this was verified by WHIO on the air seconds after I mentioned it to Terry in my narrative of what we were looking at. There were people running about in every direction. Download Citation | On Dec 31, 2016, Charles Stewart and others published Tornado | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. I ran for the house and my baby. I jumped into a 1/2 bath that was right inside the door and slammed the door and laid down and covered my head and prayed for forgiveness and for my family. . Then after a few minutes it got quiet, so we turned on the radio and heard that an EF-2 tornado touched down just east of Sheridan Elementary (my school), ripping a chunk of the school off. 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. I hadnt felt this effected in a very long time. That was the scariest drive ever. That is 13 football fields wide. At about 5 pm, I started hearing about a storm system off to the west. The Andrews had just a bought a puppy for their children. In less than 45 minutes, the National Guard was there and had declared martial law. For me, the sound of the nuclear plant sirens being used as tornado sirens was the scariest. Another man was electrocuted when he came in contact with a downed electrical line in an alley near 82nd Street and Cottage Grove; and one person was killed in an unknown location, a 60-year-old man from Hometown. 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. Damage from what appeared to be two tornadoes preliminarily rated an EF-3 and an EF-2 were found in two parts of Spalding County, in central Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. My friends dad ran out from the bedroom, and slammed the door and asked if we were alright. Somehow, some way it "jumped" our house and continued on for a short time behind us. Emergency workers bring out a tornado victim at the Mayfield Consumer Products Candle Factory after it was destroyed by a tornado with workers. Alfred and the children were taken to Little Company of Mary with non-life threatening injuries. Then the entire back wall of the shop began to bow in. I flipped when she wasn't out there after the storm. But my dad had built the house with 3/4 inch plywood where only 1/2 inch was required, and no hail penetrated it. Gov. I cut the saw off and looked at him as he began pointing off towards the west. It was probably the only thing besides the dog that saved us. I kept looking toward Zorinsky Lake. I was taken to Tupelo, Mississippi, where I spent 2 weeks in recovery. While the damage was tremendous, no fatalities have been reported, Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. said Friday. We turn on the TV to Channel 7 and we see Bill Randby, Chief Meteorologist, who said that there was a confirmed tornado within city limits. With hail that large and coming down that hard it killed cattle. Semaitis was a draftsman who lived near 100th Street and Sawyer Avenue in Evergreen Park. JOPLIN - The Missouri Department of Public Safety has announced the names of 138 individuals who have been confirmed dead as of 1 p.m. Thursday. Catherine was the stepdaughter of Shoots Tavern owner Ken Shoot. My nana, who unfortunately would be in another massive tornado in Mossy Grove, TN, several years later, was terrified of storms. I heard things slamming my house, then the sheetrock overhead fell down and it sounded like my roof lifted and came back down. Tornado victims: Pictures emerge as fears grow it . The skies were so blue all day but I had a pit in my stomach when I seen the black clouds off in the distance. AMAZING! The Tornado was an EF3 with sustained winds of 140 mph and it was 1300 yards wide at its base. The rest of the victims died in cars waiting near 95th Street and Southwest Highway. Questions? I dont think you will meet many people in your life who have survived something like this. I say these names because its forever etched in my mind. On April 27 2011, a tornado outbreak struck Smithville, Mississippi. All of us do really. I couldn't even speak. Fortunately the only issues we had were loss of power for a few days and my childrens school, Cathedral High School was destroyed. When I say involved I was literally standing in the Tornado. It had touched down in Omaha, but the sirens were late and that it has moved out of the park. Thank you to those who work for the National Weather Service. Dee Alford, who is currently in his first season as a Falcon, grew up in Griffin, Ga. Last Thursday, Griffin was hit by an EF-3 tornado, leaving many without homes and many more without power. My mom just about had a terrible accident racing to town in the pouring rain to find me. Even then, hailstones as big as a chicken egg were all over the yard and driveway. As it left Laura and was heading east toward West Milton we were on the phone with my wifes sister who lives on Rangeline Road two miles south of the radar indicated path. After a minute or so, the winds settled down and the door shopped shaking. I prayed for God to save me then I was slammed back onto the ground. I'd never heard so much lightning, nor so much noise from a storm. pe. We were all piled into this corner of the basement just freaking out while my Nana was praying in a language I didn't understand. 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. I said I thought it was safe now. He was the father of three children. 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