But my dad had built the house with 3/4 inch plywood where only 1/2 inch was required, and no hail penetrated it. "That's how I give back," the owner told The . Be safe folks. I hadnt felt this effected in a very long time. I was once told we couldn't be hit by tornadoes because of the mountains. Dozens were killed as the tornadoes ripped through several states, including Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas. I had to have new roofing on the house and all the outbuildings. In central Georgias Butts County, a 5-year-old was killed when a tree fell on top of a car, the county coroners office said. That is when I looked back at the cloud and it terrified me. Storms pop up so quickly, you have to be a good watchful person. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long. He was the father of three children. The deadliest spawned late Friday afternoon in Oak Lawn, where the greatest loss of life was recorded. Bernice was found dead with the puppy still in her arms. pu. Untouched and no water damage or cracks to the outside. A co-worker offered to drive her as far as the intersection when the tornado struck, killing Edward. qy. Gov. Water rose, and homes that you never would have expected to flood did. I was really sad and near bawling, and then I heard a massive loud rumble that began to shake the house. My brother and his family headed for home and found that there was so much hail in the Pinery, a subdivision south of Parker, that snow plows had to be called out to remove the hail as cars and even pickup trucks like his couldn't get through. The violent tornado indiscriminately tore through thousands of buildings, including Saint Johns Regional Medical Center (SJRMC), several schools, and big-box stores like Home Depot and Walmart. When that happened, he looked over and saw the shelf was going to collapse on top of my father. I have rheumatoid arthritis so the intense low pressure temporarily disabled me. They didnt know each other. While I was waiting the Tornado hit the shopping Center and sucked me out of the building. I called my brother who lived nearby. I saw power flashes and knew it was coming. It scared me because she was so loud and said to get in the car now. (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.). He was parked at 95th Street and Southwest Highway waiting for his wife, who was a secretary at the Western Avenue Hearing Aid Center. qc. We were hollaring out to God for help & he helped us! I was in a state of shock, knee-deep in flood water. WTVA Chief Meteorologist Matt Laubhan said the storm was coming to Smithville and I just stood there watching, waiting, looking at the TV and thinking this isn't gonna happen. Catherine was driving up to the tavern with her mother. I thought, oh great, I survived being sucked up into the air in a tornado, now Im gonna be crushed to death! PLEASE note that we have permission to print your story online and let us know the town and state and the month and year of the event. Then I peeked out the deck door and saw nothing but leaves. Thanks to the early warnings given by the National Weather Service and the response of the officials. I actually stopped the lesson and told the teacher that the sky was turning an ugly, almost evil, green color. Their families were forever bonded by the tragedy. I was confused and very thirsty. No deaths were reported in Dallas County as of Thursday, but some residents were hurt. The Griffin-Spalding School District will be closed Friday as the area recovers. We were blessed that day because aside from a few injuries, no fatalities were reported from my town. Damage in downtown Selma made it nearly impossible to leave the area Thursday, said Priscilla Lewis, who shared photos it with CNN. Where I was working the hail was prominent but only pea sized. Didnt do any damage to speak of. You dont notice things right away. I ran for the house and my baby. Mrs. Fencer (1974) - Wife of Fencer; killed by a tornado . Did you encounter any technical issues? I realized I was alive and did not think I was hurt to badly. At that point the TV went out and the lights started flashing on and off and on and off. There was no rain, no wind, but still continuous lightning to the east, peppered with blue and green flashes as power lines, transformers, and power substations were damaged and put off line. When you live in Tornado alley it is drilled into your head what to look, feel, hear, and even smell for regarding a tornado. of 16. Alfred and the children were taken to Little Company of Mary with non-life threatening injuries. There was one small dusty window right across from us ground level and I saw the tornado almost as if it were framed like a picture coming towards us. JOPLIN, Mo. Except I couldn't swim so my mum lifted me up and carried me. I looked out my right windshield and noticed the vines growing along the fence were starting to blow around kind of funny. During the worst of it, my parents who weren't incredibly religious started saying the Lord's prayer and telling each other and me, "I love you no matter what" over and over. Middle child Ava suffered a broken vertebrae and is expected to undergo surgery. Another fatality occurred at a dollar store in Leachville, Arkansas. We were blessed and spared that day. It was May 2008, around 1 or2 am. My cousin said her friend's house was just hit..I remember it getting very dark really quickly. The deck furniture was shoved into our house and a few chairs found the neighbors yard to the south. Search for 5-year-old who was swept away by California floodwaters continues as state braces for another lineup of storms. Kentucky officials claimed the destruction from the repeated weather events is"some of the worst tornado damage that we've seen in a long time. He collapsed and was taken to the hospital, where he died of a heart attack. The body of the student, who was studying economics and had ambitions to become a lawyer, was found 100 yards away from the devastated house. The girl's parents, three siblings ranging in age from 4 to 16, and a grandmother also died in the tornado. The holes were all about 2-4 inches in diameter. Afraid we might be burned alive if the house, above and beside us, burned. All Rights Reserved. Things started to happen pretty quickly after that. My dad looked scared. In April 2011, we had already been hammered by tornadoes. About 30 seconds later, the power went out and the entire house shook for a minute and then stopped and I thought it was over so I was about to get up from my floor when the shaking began again and wouldn't stop this time. Goldens funeral mass was held at St. Germaine. Instead of going to the Jewel Tea Co. Store at 5807 W. 95th St., she stopped at Fairway Super Mart first. When I say involved I was literally standing in the Tornado. '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. Mom turned on the radio and sure enough a tornado was on the ground headed our way. My father looked up and saw a "hole" in the sky and shouted "RUN!!!!". This warning gave the precise location and direction of the sighted storm and it was barreling towards our neighborhood. 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. 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. Their neighbors ran to the scene. MOORE, Okla. - Twenty-five people were killed in the tornado that tore through Moore May 20, 2013. So I began to venture out from the root cellar. CNNs Hannah Sarisohn, Tina Burnside, Taylor Ward, Haley Brink, Melissa Alonso, Paul P. Murphy and Amanda Jackson contributed to this report. I think it was pure fear that caused my uncle to have a heart attack on the porch that day. I was very thankful that I had closed my swimming pool the weekend prior to that. A moaning. Sandra told the Associated Press: Their house is splintered. Very disturbing, especially with continuous lightning but NO thunder. OAK LAWN, IL -- Before their names belonged to the ages, 33 souls went about their Friday afternoon on April 21, 1967. When she hadnt returned home 30 minutes after the tornado struck, Frank went looking for her. 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. All I could think of was get to a low spot. 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. With diminishing lightning to the east. She had burrowed under that concrete slab to take cover. My dog would just stand in the yard and howl for hours those entire 3 days as well as acting off in other ways. transcript. His 22-year-old daughter was a Patricia Stevens model. On the day of the funeral, Johns and Rogers wallets were returned to Chieveras Funeral Home by an anonymous Good Samaritan, each with a fifty-dollar bill tucked inside. He lived on Harnew Road East. He was killed at the tornados epicenter near 95th Street and Southwest Highway. In adjacent Dallas County, a huge tornado caused widespread destruction in Selma, home to about 17,000 people. Nothing. The sky was lit with ominous furious lightning. Welser and his wife, Annmarie, met a dance at 57th Street and Sacramento. I cut the saw off and looked at him as he began pointing off towards the west. I've been through a couple traumatic incidents in my life as a veteran of the Gulf War. Calascibetta was driving home from work with his son-in-law, where both were employed at a manufacturing plant. Both were waiting for a bus at the Suburban Bus Co. near 95th Street and Southwest Highway. Inthe later part of March 1982, I was on spring break and home by myself that whole week. Usually you hear thunder. eo. She told me I was overreacting, but I took a stern tone and repeated what I had just said. Living in Dixie Alley we get lots of storms. He would go to Wisconsin and Michigan to fish whenever he could get away. I sighed a breath of relief hoping the twister had skipped over the shop. Spalding County declared a state of emergency Thursday due to a reported tornado there, officials said on Facebook, urging residents to shelter in place. Matthew Dale Ferguson, 50, died in his home in Bremen during the outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across Western Kentucky. I also found coloring assignments from an elementary school somewhere I didnt recognize. The rain had picked up and I began cutting, my mind thinking about how to cover the roof. 10 children were killed, including two infants. 2. At 13, Christine was an old soul. 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. According to a relative, Calascibetta was a good, quiet family man. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Courtesy Jenny Suttles Prewitt. My cell phone rang and my parents had been coming back to town right about where the storm began. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated EF-3 , meaning gusts of at least 136 mph - the weather service said . I had my phone in my hand so of course even though I was freaking out and praying to God thinking that I probably wouldn't live I decided to try to video what I could. I looked out the driver's side window and noticed it was getting a little windy; some of our camping chairs blew over. Watches are meant to alert . Kathryn Begay. Kay Ivey said while visiting Selma Friday. 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. Back in 1998, I just got home from school and the sirens went off. The Jones & Robinson Families. We said What?. We had the boys (aged 11 and 7 at the time) headed to the truck. She said to get inside thehouse now and get downstairs. zo tr vs gj en kt. I could still see out the front windshield and I could see power lines exploding out in front of me. Annette Clark worked as a receptionist in a doctors office near 87th Street and Cicero Avenue. It was almost like a block party with all the excitement. It was a groan. They were driving home from work, roller skating, stopping for a beer, cashing their paychecks, going out for dinner and grocery shopping when their paths crossed with an EF-4 tornado ripping down Southwest Highway, wreaking havoc in Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Hometown and the citys South Side. I don't think I ever want to hear that because I do remember I was screaming. My mother and aunt saw insulation and siding scattered in our yard. So I had to wait. That town still bares the scars and the fear. As storm damage blocked roads in Georgia, some students couldnt leave four middle schools south of Atlanta, their school system said Thursday night. 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Tornadoes rated EF-2 pack winds of at least 111 mph while EF-3 tornadoes contain winds between 136 and 165 mph. CNN . Kentucky Tornado Victims Range From 2 Months to 98 Years Old Gov. All the family members initially survived as the storm devastated Jackies moms home. He often stopped at Shoots Lynwood Table for a beer on his way home from work. The dog just would not leave the house. I have to say that praying and getting into that closet most likely saved our lives that night. The surge of twistersthat struck Kentuckyleft up to 100 people dead and 60,000 without power or electricity. The screens were pulled up out of the frames in the windows. 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. In those states and Kentucky, at least 37 preliminary tornado reports were recorded in storms that damaged power lines, severed tree limbs and sent debris flying into streets. The third-grader and her siblings sought shelter in a windowless bathroom before the storms hit. pe. I remember being in the living room with several family members, aunts and cousins. Discovery Company. Coming home from school one day, I saw a dark blue to gray cloud coming towards my house. I remember taking in a deep breath and hugging my friend and running over to my moms house and making sure she was alright. My father's friend, who owned the property, told me the following story the day after the storm while he was recovering from injuries in the hospital. Then the debris started falling out of the sky. I pushed one more time and was able to create enough space to breathe. Fast forward almost 9 years, I was visiting a friend's house for an Easter cookout. Same with the front door when I opened it. 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. Even canned goods! We were fortunate. I'd never heard so much lightning, nor so much noise from a storm. We thought we were in the clear but the night had just begun. No noise. The assessor thinks we need to tear off and replace our siding, but we have the option to have a building inspector validate his findings. Everybody in town had to have a new roof. The one kept by his only daughter, Frieda, still has shards of glass from that day. Directly behind me, sitting perpendicularly to my pickup truck, was a semi-truck. Thunberg's dig at Tate has been praised by many, but some people have accused her of body-shamed him. Somehow, some way it "jumped" our house and continued on for a short time behind us. ". The damage, was far worse than anything I had envisioned, Alabama Gov. And she said "because it's a tornado." 7:18 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2023, See the damage left after powerful storms move across Southeast. Bernadette was in second grade and a Brownie. They lived in LaGrange. PleaseContact Us. Please Contact Us. My friend carried me to my mother, who then carried me to the car parked about 1/2 mile or so away. Once burned is twice learned. Resident of the The Cardinal Inn in Bowling Green, Kentucky, looks at the damages done after a tornado touched down on December 11, 2021. I remember praying out loud and my hands were shaking. He never regained consciousness. He was killed in the restaurant. Our lives have been forever changed since that early morning tornado. So I held my son and soothed him there in the root cellar, as the pounding increased to a roar, coming from the entire house above us, and slowly diminished again. I was well aware of threat of the storms going into the night. I will never forget the look on his face and the fear in his voice. Lives were saved that June afternoon thanks to their dedication and pursuit of the understanding of weather. The tornado rolled their car. That is 13 football fields wide. Workers survey tornado damage after extreme weather hit the region Dec. 12, 2021, in Mayfield, Ky. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images. Hunoway worked in the shipping department for a Bensenville firm that manufactured steel pipes for sewers. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The two other Garland victims were Jose Oviedo Juarez, 19, and Timothy Harris, 58. Weve got to layer up and get ready, Perkins said as overnight lows over the next several days were due to dip below freezing. It busted out their windshields and the car got picked up and thrown in a ditch. Tornado damage in Alabamas Dallas County home to Selma spanned the length of the county, coroner William Alan Dailey said in a video conference. Its in your carport." Millions in California are reeling from weeks of flooding rain that has killed at least 18 people and left thousands without power. It wasn't until one of their staff tried to make an unrelated insurance claim, and was told that every available claims adjuster in the entire United States was busy with a natural disaster in Parker, Colorado that KOA and the rest of the country became aware of the storm. In retrospect, that toilet not being secured is probably what saved me as I think I was traveling with the debris in the twister. It was very upsetting to Terry and I dont mind telling you that I was very upset and worried as well. zb. No rain, no breeze, just the saw rumbling and vibrating my hand. April 27, 2011 was a sad and horrific day for the southeast. The April outbreak was a nightmare and I got stuck in a Food City that was about to close while there was another tornado warning for where I was. I kept looking toward Zorinsky Lake. Severe storms and more than 2 dozen tornadoes hit Southeast. It was so faint to the point I thought I had lost my hearing. Power lines were down. Last year several Tornados swept through the area the night of 10/20/2019. He was found dead in his badly damaged car nearly Oak Lawn Community High School. Korean war veteran and Covid-19 survivor Golden Hembry was one of two people to die in the Monette Manor retirement home in Monette, Arkansas. When the tornado hit, Shoot dived under a pool table when the building fell apart. Then the wind started howling. Tornadoes can do some awesome, yet scary things. My dad and uncles were still on the front porch watching it like the cowboys they were, which I would never advise. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said the death toll remained 74, but would likely rise with about 100 people still . 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. Local resident Jamel Alubahr, 25, said his three-year-old nephew died in the storm. They said they could see a black cloud approaching them fast and then the hail hit. 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. Both men were from the Lithuanian community in Marquette Park. My husband started to fuss with him, but you could tell Hobo was upset. Later that night, I found mail in my yard from Cullman, Alabama. I felt him all over for glass. Out of the corner of my eye I see my pink robe sporting hero, and I do mean hero,waving both hands,one of which still clung to a beer. The state patrol came to get my husband to help clear some of the roads. I live in Utah and I was in the kitchen where we had a glass door to go to the backyard. 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