I have never seen so much hail fall for so long. His son-in-law survived and was pulled out alive from the wrecked car. I prayed that night he and my neighbor Mrs. Brooks were safe. While the damage was tremendous, no fatalities have been reported, Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. said Friday. I listened to the battery operated radio: no report of storms. My father went under a large wooden rack where tons of lumber was stored. '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. This was, hands down, one of those most traumatic and terrifying moments of my life. He died two days later of his injuries at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park. I'm working on a plan. Around this time (10:50 pm approx..) the debris ball and circulation signature was clearly heading due east on Westbrook Road and was about 3 miles west of our house in the Air Hill Road area. I call to my friends and we get inside the trailer. A semi-truck driver, Jackson was off work due to a trucker strike. (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.). 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. When the storm hit, Harold and Florence lay on the floor of their apartment. In Collin County, 65-year-old Jerry Brazeal and 49-year-old Jerry Funderburk, Jr. were killed when an EF-2 . Afraid we might be burned alive if the house, above and beside us, burned. Haggan planned to celebrate his 52nd birthday the next day by driving his wife home from the hospital. 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. Workers survey tornado damage after extreme weather hit the region Dec. 12, 2021, in Mayfield, Ky. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images. Joan followed carrying the baby when Fairways humongous roof came crashing down. A man cries as he waits to receive the body of a victim of a plane crash, at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. These accounts have not been verified. Were still trying to figure things out. They found a mobile home at the Airway Trailer Court at 91st Street and Cicero Avenue that was just right. After we composed ourselves and kissed, thanking God we were alive, we got off the floor and started our survey. I tried holding on to the hood of the truck but there was nothing to hold on to. Across the South and the central US, more than 160 damaging wind reports were recorded in Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. My house is white. . I went out to cover the baby vegetable plants in my mother's garden, on the hillside about 100 yards south of the house. First responders found them in the mud. He brought the radio and a flashlight, while my mom got some batteries and snacks. Paulina Porizkova, 57, Just Posted A Pic Of Her Strong Glutes in a Thong Bikini. Kriscunas was a mechanical engineer from Palos Heights. Seemed like an eternity. 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. They had two children, ages 5 and 2. About 10 minutes. The two other Garland victims were Jose Oviedo Juarez, 19, and Timothy Harris, 58. He shouted for him to get out from under the lumber and run to the tree but unfortunately the sound of the roaring tornado was too loud for my father to hear hi sfriend. We had to go run and jump in the closet.. It was almost like a block party with all the excitement. Ten tornadoes would strike northeastern Illinois on what became known as Black Friday. I don't know how long I wandered around. At that point the TV went out and the lights started flashing on and off and on and off. Early on the morning of March 3, 2020 a E-F4 tornado hit the Cookeville, Baxter, Tennessee area where we live. I grew up both a little frightened and excited by storms and tornadoes. Frustrated, I jumped in my car and headed home. We lost lives that night and in such a small county we felt every single loss, especially the small baby who didn't even get to start her life. People really need to pay attention to the forecast, especially in spring time. She suffered injuries to her head, shoulder, and leg. Even canned goods! Annistyn died while the rest of her family survived. Valeria Yanis toldUSA Todaythat she hid under a water fountain as employees rushed to the bathroom for cover. We took off to the hospital while warnings were still being handed out like parking tickets. His favorite pastime was puttering in the garden. Two Bibles were recovered intact from the wrecked car. We watched, and it was obvious to me that the rotation on the storm was very strong and I mentioned that to Terry about a half minute before WHIO said the exact same thing. My dad turned on the flashlight and the rumble began to slow. 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. That is when I looked back at the cloud and it terrified me. As I drove home, the closer I got, the worse things looked. Our lives have been forever changed since that early morning tornado. I felt the pressure drop and as the shaking got louder, I got worried. A Warner Bros. In Old Kingston, an unincorporated rural community in central Alabama, emergency workers searching the wreckage of a home found a woman who had been killed, raising the death toll from Thursday . It was so faint to the point I thought I had lost my hearing. She recalled that the little girl used to perform cartwheels and splits in front of her, and liked to learn new dances from TikTok. Bernard had been driving west on 95th Street to Jewel with the little girls when the storm hit. 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! My mom said to keep my eyes ahead. Two-year-old Cathy and her sister Barbara, 4, turned up in the hospital. My mom just about had a terrible accident racing to town in the pouring rain to find me. Atchley was a widow who lived at 4344 S. Francisco Ave. in Chicago. 6-year-old boy is youngest victim of Alabama tornado that left 23 dead. Water rose, and homes that you never would have expected to flood did. Finally, I managed to phone my wife at work but she can't pick up so I left a voicemail that she still has. The rest of the victims died in cars waiting near 95th Street and Southwest Highway. It scared me because she was so loud and said to get in the car now. Then the lights went out. Very few injuries or fatalities occurred. I think it was pure fear that caused my uncle to have a heart attack on the porch that day. Trees were completely stripped of their leaves. 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. All Rights Reserved. I wrapped up the game for the night when my sisters friend informed us of a tornado warning. Our ornamental pear was shattered and shredded, laying in our back yard. It was still so calm and then the sirens started to go off. 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. Be safe folks. Mrs. Fencer (1974) - Wife of Fencer; killed by a tornado . ", Governor Andy Beshear said, "This is likely to be the mostsevere tornado outbreakin our state's history.". My cell phone rang and my parents had been coming back to town right about where the storm began. Roofs are just gone, trees look like toothpicks.. 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. After all, the storm chased me!! My dad looked scared. She looked up and saw the huge tornado coming across the parking lot. In less than 45 minutes, the National Guard was there and had declared martial law. All NOAA. Kathryn Begay. That town still bares the scars and the fear. The Joplin tornado, moving roughly west to east, cut a 6-mile-long path through a densely populated are and was up to a mile wide in some places. Both men were from the Lithuanian community in Marquette Park. Marjorie and her husband, Leslie, lived in Oak Lawn for 15 years. I saw my mom's car and then heard her yell my name. My living room looked eerie as I could see flashes of lightening as well as power flashes. I was visiting my parents, 7 miles southeast of Parker, Colorado, while my husband (USMC) was overseas. I cut the saw off and looked at him as he began pointing off towards the west. William McNichols would remark at a requiem Mass for six tornado victims at St. Gerald Church that the left hand of God touched the village and parish last Friday night but the right arm of God was around most of us to protect us.". My mom put me under a desk and put a table on top. It was a groan. By Daily Mail Reporter. AMAZING! We were blessed and spared that day. Did you encounter any technical issues? Hearses carrying the bodies of tornado victims leave St. Gerald's after a mass funeral. For me, the sound of the nuclear plant sirens being used as tornado sirens was the scariest. To the west/southwest it was pitch black moving towards us quickly, otherwise the sky was blue everywhere else. When I couldn't hear it any more, I finally left the basement. 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. Most of the congregation dove to the corner. The first tornado passed but now the second one was headed our way. At the requiem Mass for six tornado victims at St. Gerald Church, itself badly damaged by the twister, Fr. Golden's brother Jimmie Hembry, 82, hurried to the nursing home in the aftermath of thestorm. The Selma tornado was rated EF-2, the weather service said. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Even then, hailstones as big as a chicken egg were all over the yard and driveway. Then it spun me off the column and onto a truck that was parked in front of the Little Caesars. A woman was killed as she shielded her baby in a tub, another was killed when her R.V. I also found coloring assignments from an elementary school somewhere I didnt recognize. 2023 Cable News Network. His family was his whole life.. There were so many screams.. They are: Jimmy Lee Jones, 89; Raymond Robinson Jr., 63; Mary Louise Jones, 83 . 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