Golden's brother Jimmie Hembry, 82, hurried to the nursing home in the aftermath of thestorm. The deadliest spawned late Friday afternoon in Oak Lawn, where the greatest loss of life was recorded. Adjustors set up tents in the mall parking lot for you to drive your car into to assess damage assembly-line style. Published: 16:45 EST, 7 March 2013 | Updated: 17:40 EST, 7 . Bernadette was in second grade and a Brownie. "We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians and probably end up 70 to 100," Beshear continued. His funeral Mass was held at St. Linus Church. I held onto the steering wheel for dear life. It was a rainstorm of hail and the wind was up. The pastor called her death the will of God.. "That's how I give back," the owner told The . She was excited about her upcoming First Communion. Everybody in town had to have a new roof. After we composed ourselves and kissed, thanking God we were alive, we got off the floor and started our survey. It had held. When you start getting onto the roads, theres going to be no way to get to where youre going, said T.J. Imberger, Spalding County public works director. I woke up one hour and a half later in a field a 1/4 mile away from the house with cuts to my body and a deep cut to my head and covered in blood dirt and grass. 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. There was like a brief squall with wind/heavy rain and then it got dead calm. A plastic bucket full of sand for the swimming pool steps had been shattered. With hail that large and coming down that hard it killed cattle. Rather than destroying homes by sheer wind speed, the Jarell tornado had a sandblasting effect from the extreme ground scouring it caused, picking up a tremendous amount of dirt, sand and rocks. . Then the wind started howling. I was so happy and grateful that I was still alive and safe. I looked out the driver's side window and noticed it was getting a little windy; some of our camping chairs blew over. Mrs. Fencer (1974) - Wife of Fencer; killed by a tornado . The problem is that they can be almost daily in season, and without proper shelters, it doesn't do much good. Alfred drove a forklift for Caterpillar in Joliet. We were all just standing there watching it. My husband started to fuss with him, but you could tell Hobo was upset. My cousin said her friend's house was just hit..I remember it getting very dark really quickly. In Collin County, 65-year-old Jerry Brazeal and 49-year-old Jerry Funderburk, Jr. were killed when an EF-2 . With the last of the vegetables covered, I stood on the hillside wondering why there was so much noise coming from the entire western sky. Then I saw the reason for the buzz-saw noise. Burman was a salesman for a building materials' manufacturer. I didnt hear thunder at all. He opened his arms and I hugged that man so hard he tapped my shoulder because I was squeezing him. A deadly EF5 tornado struck the suburbs of Oklahoma City, Okla. on Monday, taking 24 lives. Mrs. I headed to the bathroom and watched the blood red cell on radar as lights went out and cellular reception was lost. We didn't have a basement so we all got in the interior hallway with blankets and pillows on top of me mostly and waited. On Dec. 13, a tornadic storm swept through Keithville, La., with possible EF-2 damage with 130-mph winds, according to the National . Things started to happen pretty quickly after that. At least seven people were killed in central Alabamas Autauga County, with two others including a 5-year-old boy killed in Georgia, officials said. They huddled together in the bathroom and feared they were going to die. Eighteen people were killed within the one-square block area at 95th Street and Southwest Highway; four people died in the Fairway Super Mart; one person was killed at the Sherwood Forest Restaurant, two at Shoots Lynwood Tavern, two waiting for a bus at the Suburban Bus terminal garage, one in her garage, three more at Oak Lawn Roller Rink, and two in the decimated Airway Trailer Court. Their neighbors ran to the scene. ". CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. My 6 year old son is a meteorologist in the making. Haggan lived for many years in the Irish community near 63rd Street and Laflin in Chicago. There was not an inch that hadnt been smattered with leaves. They were standing outside while sirens were going off looking at the green skies when things got unusually calm and quiet. Later that night, I found mail in my yard from Cullman, Alabama. She earned As and B's at Worth Elementary School. Catherine was driving up to the tavern with her mother. Shoot survived but Catherine was killed. His 22-year-old daughter was a Patricia Stevens model. We didnt get hit but poor Alabama got wrecked. We remember 2x4s flying high up in the sky like helicopter propellers. She suffered injuries to her head, shoulder, and leg. I told my wife we would be heading toward the basement when I made the call. I thought, oh great, I survived being sucked up into the air in a tornado, now Im gonna be crushed to death! As we hit the cellar floor I heard a large thump that shook the house. qy. I hadnt felt this effected in a very long time. 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. Finally, I managed to phone my wife at work but she can't pick up so I left a voicemail that she still has. Prevention. 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. Bernard had been driving west on 95th Street to Jewel with the little girls when the storm hit. (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.). I was literally standing inside the Tornado. Then it spun me off the column and onto a truck that was parked in front of the Little Caesars. A memorial and prayer service will be held for the dead in Moore on Sunday evening. Did you encounter any technical issues? I survived bruised from head to toe with a broken foot and some lacerations. We heard the winds increasing and gusting heavily in a slightly pulsing ebb and flow. Bernard and his wife bought their home in Oak Lawn the year before. 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. My father went under a large wooden rack where tons of lumber was stored. I do remember hearing nails squeak out of boards as they were being forced out by the fierce tornado. Bernice and Alfred Andrews met in high school. I knew John Mobley as a preteen, said Cindy Mobley, Rogers wife. That town still bares the scars and the fear. Anyway, stay prepared people and most importantly stay informed. The entire home shook and we ducked and huddled together. 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. As I drove home, the closer I got, the worse things looked. Trees were completely stripped of their leaves. 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. was lifted and thrown at a campground, and another man was killed in his car by a falling tree. It moved at a very slow speed, around 20 mph slower than the average tornado. I stood there and tears poured down my face,not from the dislocated shoulder or pounding headache from the concussion, but from the thankfulness I felt for him for the saw and for standing outside to warn me. 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 sky was lit with ominous furious lightning. Our lives have been forever changed since that early morning tornado. We thought we were in the clear but the night had just begun. Fred and his son crawled out of the debris. Didnt do any damage to speak of. The one kept by his only daughter, Frieda, still has shards of glass from that day. I saw power flashes and knew it was coming. A post on Facebook from Lauren Pitts says that Josh, Erin . I thought, oh no, I hope its not a tornado. The door breathed back out. It was deafening. The mobile home stopped shaking. No noise. The flooding part though was caused by the buildup of hailstones over the street drains, blocking the escape of water from heavy rains. This was the scariest moment of my life and I hope nothing like this happens ever again. There were people running about in every direction. The tornado splintered their home less than a week after Trey and Meghan moved in. First responders found them in the mud. The hail was not heavy or especially large. Finally it was over and we stepped outside to survey the scene. She told WLWT5 her home twisted off its foundation, trapping the family in the basement before they escaped through a window. I look out and all I see is lightening. hp xm dq yy ie. Seemed like an eternity. It had touched down in Omaha, but the sirens were late and that it has moved out of the park. My teacher said, "class, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore." Two weeks later, if I recall correctly, KOA -the local radio station- acknowledged with chagrin that they had missed the storm entirely. The medical examiner ruled it cardiac dysrhythmia. . The tornado was in our back yard! I listen to the Weather Channel and am grateful. It was almost like a block party with all the excitement. As storm damage blocked roads in Georgia, some students couldnt leave four middle schools south of Atlanta, their school system said Thursday night. Thanks to the early warnings given by the National Weather Service and the response of the officials. My dog would just stand in the yard and howl for hours those entire 3 days as well as acting off in other ways. The tornado warnings seem to be good as far as giving advance notice. After all, the storm chased me!! I dont think you will meet many people in your life who have survived something like this. We had to go run and jump in the closet.. "Nothing is more scarier than knowing a tornado is heading your way and hearing your kids freaked out and thinking we are going to die.. They found a mobile home at the Airway Trailer Court at 91st Street and Cicero Avenue that was just right. 6-year-old boy is youngest victim of Alabama tornado that left 23 dead. When I say involved I was literally standing in the Tornado. So I began to venture out from the root cellar. Selmas mayor asked residents to conserve water after outages affected treatment facilities and the storms made way for much cooler, albeit sunny, weather across the region. "The tornado victims sustained such extreme physical trauma that recovery teams had difficulty distinguishing human remains from animal remains scattered throughout the area. I went out to cover the baby vegetable plants in my mother's garden, on the hillside about 100 yards south of the house. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long. It had a base of about 75 to a hundred yards across. My sister told me to move to the hallway with everyone else. 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. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. 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. Weve got to layer up and get ready, Perkins said as overnight lows over the next several days were due to dip below freezing. I don't know how long I wandered around. 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. Now in Oklahoma when I was a kid, if the sirens went off you went outside first to try and get a look before taking shelter. 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. The first tornado passed but now the second one was headed our way. 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. The parents wrote on Facebook: We was in the bathroom and we all went flying and ended up way on the other end of our neighbor's house. A powerful storm front slammed into the historic city . I could barely walk. Paulina Porizkova, 57, Just Posted A Pic Of Her Strong Glutes in a Thong Bikini. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. All we heard was wind and the whole house was shaking, Moore told CNN, adding no one was injured. The storm ripped through north McAllen and windows on the north sides of homes were shattered. It was still 12 inches deep when the plows finally arrived. I put on my rubber knee boots and we both went outside to check on external damage. John Lydon said he died serving others.. 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. Everyone was panicking. This was a factor in the insane damage the tornado caused The Rockwells were just two of thousands who were sent scurrying for their lives on Sunday evening when the deadly tornado roared through the small Missouri city of Joplin. Welser and his wife, Annmarie, met a dance at 57th Street and Sacramento. Safety1325 East West HighwaySilver Spring, MD 20910Comments? I was about 6 or 7 years old, living in Lincoln, NE, and ready to end the school year. The Selma tornado was rated EF-2, the weather service said. By Daily Mail Reporter. So I primed and fired up the saw and went halfway up the ladder to get the heaviest part off the roof. His grandparents were farmers and among Oak Lawns earliest settlers. I remember being in the living room with several family members, aunts and cousins. The couple had been out to dinner and were pulling into their garage at 9311 S. 52nd Ave. when a large tree fell on it. I expected to hear a train like sound but it sounded more like a fighter jet that was very angry. Beyond horrifying. In the 8th grade, a tornado hit our small town and killed one man. They had no children. He said it again and he went to crying.. Christine had written to airlines asking for information on becoming an airline stewardess. The lights then went out for good, but we did have a flashlight with us and I flicked it on. I rounded the carport and flung open the door and just like I would any other day, kinda flung it behind my back to close it with three fingers, only to have it meet the wind and come back on me. That is when I looked back at the cloud and it terrified me. Matthew Dale Ferguson, 50, died in his home in Bremen during the outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across Western Kentucky. A MOM took a heartbreaking final snap of her daughter holding onto her favorite doll to show she was safe before a series of deadly tornadoes hit the Midwest. Ernie was found dead in the ruins. 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. Even then, hailstones as big as a chicken egg were all over the yard and driveway. So I had to wait. Pulverized ice and torn screen from the door whooshed down on my heels and icy fog rebounded with a force that blew my hair straight up. The River Region United Way has created a Disaster Relief Fund. We were fortunate. My friends and I were sitting on her porch talking and having a wonderful time. A moaning. Two citizens pick through debris here, looking for possible victims following the touch down of a tornado on April 3rd, which destroyed half of the. I don't think I ever want to hear that because I do remember I was screaming. On April 24, 2019, I was in my shop at 6964 Coyote Run, Bryan, TX, working on a Volkswagon engine. I have rheumatoid arthritis so the intense low pressure temporarily disabled me. Power lines were down. I ended up on the ground holding on to the rim of the left front tire until it stopped. Turned out the tornado did not touch down fully in the park, but still threw a carport into a neighboring car and tipped a tree to the point you couldnt go up the road in any type of vehicle. Then the lights went out. 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. Then I peeked out the deck door and saw nothing but leaves. The screens were pulled up out of the frames in the windows. That is the normal during spring time in Texas. Tons of debris in the cover. I was not with him when the incident took place. Local resident Jamel Alubahr, 25, said his three-year-old nephew died in the storm. I was 7 and knew it must be serious. In less than 45 minutes, the National Guard was there and had declared martial law. The Worth girl was an excellent figure skater, who practiced several days a week at the Oak Lawn Roller Rink, but that Friday was the first time she had asked her mother's permission to go skating. 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