Posted by Mark - IN. on April 02, 2014 at 18:09:04 from (98.215.76.204):
In Reply to: Tornadoes posted by Mark W. on April 02, 2014 at 08:50:13:
Palm Sunday 1965. I was 5 years old. When it was all over and we walked outside, one of the barns looked like a porcupine with all of the straw stuck clear through the boards. One of the cows went back to grazing in the pasture with a pitch fork that was sticking out of it, handle first in one side, out the other missing all of the vitals. One of our oak trees, a huge one, was set gently along the back of the house parallel to it, barely touching it. Another one in our front yard by the road that I walked under because it was propped up by big limbs on one end, and the roots on the other, just ripped out of the ground. One of my friends, Stuart, was actually sucked and picked up and set down a ways from his house that was destroyed, no one hurt, the rest of his family untouched in the basement. I haven't seen Stu in decades, but he stuttered very badly from that day forward, but desribed the whole thing very vividly at the age of 5 years old also. The grain elevator in Wyatt had a locomotive thrown through it. In the short video below, the photo of the twin tornado was taken on the south side of town. Throughout the '80's, you could still see its path because the trees were not as tall as those next to it. In 1990, the week that I moved into my new home in Romeoville, IL where I had moved to from Indiana, a tornado came through that was 3/4's of a mile wide, from Bartlett to Joliet, just south of me. In the middle of its path in Plainfield on Rt 30 just north of Rt 126, was a farm house dead center of its path. All of the outside was gone, but the inside walls were still standing, and I will never forget the sight of a wall clock, pictures, mirrors still on the wall with a recliner chair still setting in place...and the whole outside, all four sides were gone right in the middle of a 3/4 mile wide path where corn used to be.
They are one of the many things that make life intersting. The same week, maybe two of the Plainfield tornado, an Amoco barge knocked the bridge down by my home, and 6 inmates escaped just south of me in Joliet. I was having second thoughts of having moved to Illinois. I've been back home in Indiana where I will take my chances for over a decade now.
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