Five heartless thieves were busted for looting the ravaged homes of tornado victims in Kentucky, officials said. The medical examiner ruled it cardiac dysrhythmia. According to the coroner and the below Facebook post, this family lost seven members. Afraid we might be burned alive if the house, above and beside us, burned. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated EF-3, meaning gusts of at least 136 mph the weather service said. Then it spun me off the column and onto a truck that was parked in front of the Little Caesars. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. Cody took up a post at Mansfield and 95th Street where he helped to direct traffic until 10 p.m. The siblings never married. It had held. I couldn't even speak. By Friday morning, more than two dozen students were reunited with their families, Griffin-Spalding County School System said in a social media post, after they had to shelter on school grounds because storm debris had blocked roadways. We had minimum injuries. My next thought was get to an interior hall so I ran to the bathroom, laid down on the floor and grabbed the toilet knowing it was bolted to the ground. Welser and his wife, Annmarie, met a dance at 57th Street and Sacramento. As for my shaking, it continued, along with occasional nightmares, until that following August until my I met my girlfriend. Everybody in town had to have a new roof. Bernadette was in second grade and a Brownie. I don't know how long it took me to calm down and regain my senses but I finally went back to record a video walkthrough of the damage. She went on to live a good dog life and died of old age. 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. We were blessed and spared that day. We have always been sad that our kids and grandkids did not get to know him.. It got so dark we couldnt see each other in the car, Roger said. It was still so calm and then the sirens started to go off. The tornado tracked closer and the praying got louder. One florist in Moore is offering free funeral flowers for all of the victims. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday as rescue workers . With hail that large and coming down that hard it killed cattle. The hail was not heavy or especially large. I flipped when she wasn't out there after the storm. I grabbed his saw and noticed, like a ghost,he was gone inside. I could see the semi that was behind me had blown over top of me and landed next to the carport. turned on cuz joplin's gone, theres bodies twisted in my lawn!brains hanging out, flesh eating fungus, weaponized, no doubt,walking,stepping,c. A powerful storm front slammed into the historic city . Early on the morning of March 3, 2020 a E-F4 tornado hit the Cookeville, Baxter, Tennessee area where we live. eo. I don't know how long I wandered around. The Rev. Millions in California are reeling from weeks of flooding rain that has killed at least 18 people and left thousands without power. Mrs. Living in Dixie Alley we get lots of storms. No warnings were out that day. He was badly injured. The mobile home stopped shaking. My husband called for our dog a husky/chow mix to get on the back of the truck, but he would't come out of the house. She looked up and saw the huge tornado coming across the parking lot. Local resident Jamel Alubahr, 25, said his three-year-old nephew died in the storm. Except I couldn't swim so my mum lifted me up and carried me. 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. But as I stuck my head out the door to look into the basement, a fierce pounding began again, on the north wall of the house. They knew each other but not well. 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 . His grandparents were farmers and among Oak Lawns earliest settlers. My sister told me to move to the hallway with everyone else. My poor babies. She said to get inside thehouse now and get downstairs. 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. I pushed and clawed my way out of the rubble, shocked angry and thankful to God that I was alive. An estimated 383 people were killed in that weeklong . The door flew open and I look outside while we are interlocking arms to make sure we try to stay together. She immediately started the car and told me to buckle up. Brian Kemp said Friday. 22h ago. That is 13 football fields wide. Marjorie and her husband, Leslie, lived in Oak Lawn for 15 years. While these areas of damage were caused by the same storm, it is not yet known if there was a continuous path of damage, the weather service said. We were calling her but no response when suddenly she comes out from under the shedconcrete slab all wet and muddy. As soon as we shut the door, we hear what sounded like a freight train. 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. They are: Jimmy Lee Jones, 89; Raymond Robinson Jr., 63; Mary Louise Jones, 83 . Browse 937 tornado victims stock photos and images available, or search for disaster relief to find more great stock photos and pictures. Krishun Moores house in Selma was torn up when a storm sent her and her mother to shelter in their bathroom, she said. The tree sitting directly in front of me, which was relatively large, blew over like it was nothing. My mom said to keep my eyes ahead. bx . My mom put me under a desk and put a table on top. Be weather aware. I have never seen so much hail fall for so long. I've been through a couple traumatic incidents in my life as a veteran of the Gulf War. A Warner Bros. She earned As and B's at Worth Elementary School. The tornado completely leveled the trailer court. To make ends meet during the strike, he was working temporarily driving a taxi for an Oak Lawn cab company. He could still swing a golf club. But my dad had built the house with 3/4 inch plywood where only 1/2 inch was required, and no hail penetrated it. Tons of debris in the cover. 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. We got in the center part of the house when all the doors blew open. The son of a Chicago cop, he grew up in the city and had just moved with his sister, Florence, into a new apartment building at 9524 S. Mansfield in Oak Lawn. yr bt. Apparently the tornado was skipping thru town rather than taking a continuous path and jumped right over my street but destroyedhouses and businesses just 2-3 blocks in either direction. I wiped the blood from my eyes and saw a 1965 Pontiac Catalina next to me. 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. was lifted and thrown at a campground, and another man was killed in his car by a falling tree. Nineteen severe hail reports were recorded in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. 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. Prevention. None. My power line was ripped loose. He enjoyed relaxing around his house and was fond of fishing. The dog just would not leave the house. A lot of people are hurting. The dryer vent had been shattered. And I can only describe it as evil. 2023 Cable News Network. It showed two apparent victims bound with their arms behind their backs and tape over their mouths. She lived in Worth and was driving home from work down Southwest Highway. This was a factor in the insane damage the tornado caused Their neighbors ran to the scene. Last year several Tornados swept through the area the night of 10/20/2019. It had a base of about 75 to a hundred yards across. 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. Mom turned on the radio and sure enough a tornado was on the ground headed our way. Bernice was active in church, where she taught Sunday School and was a member of the junior choir. appreciated. It was roughly 11:30 am as I got to the tree I realized my pink robe sporting neighbor had put his ladder up for me right where I needed it. After my father got pulled out with the help of everyone that was around, someone performed CPR but there was no saving his life. Jay Nixon says while the process of identifying tornado victims is improved, some bodies remain "unrecognizable." Now the only time I shake is because I still get butterflies everytime I see her come through the door. She had dark hair which she wore in bangs and comforting eyes, her father told reporters. They were driving from their home in Joliet to Oak Lawn, where they were taking the puppy to get its shots at a veterinary office. 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. "We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians and probably end up 70 to 100," Beshear continued. My father looked up and saw a "hole" in the sky and shouted "RUN!!!!". (Oak Lawn Public Library) John Mobley's wrecked Ford Galaxy after being tossed by the tornado. Also the north side of our house was sand blasted with shredded leaves and debris, but the other sides of the house were clean. I remember being in the living room with several family members, aunts and cousins. The lights then went out for good, but we did have a flashlight with us and I flicked it on. The screens were pulled up out of the frames in the windows. Somehow, some way it "jumped" our house and continued on for a short time behind us. A moaning. My house is white. I didn't know what was happening so I ran to the car and got in. A few windows were broken. The kicker was taking the cover off the pool and the plastic side rails looked like swiss cheese! This is a disaster area. Kriscunas was a mechanical engineer from Palos Heights. CNNs Hannah Sarisohn, Tina Burnside, Taylor Ward, Haley Brink, Melissa Alonso, Paul P. Murphy and Amanda Jackson contributed to this report. His nephew Michael Hembry told CBS42: He (Jimmie) come back and he said Golden didnt make it. Governors in Alabama and Georgia declared states of emergency in stricken areas to help with rescue and cleanup efforts. Apparently, a non-severe storm hit the area and a medium sized tree hit my house. I call to my friends and we get inside the trailer. 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! His son-in-law survived and was pulled out alive from the wrecked car. my my jk cc zc. So I primed and fired up the saw and went halfway up the ladder to get the heaviest part off the roof. We heard the winds increasing at this point and sounds of sporadic hail hitting the house and roof. Marjorie had been crushed to death underneath the tree. All the family members initially survived as the storm devastated Jackies moms home. We thought we were in the clear but the night had just begun. Fortunately the only issues we had were loss of power for a few days and my childrens school, Cathedral High School was destroyed. zb. 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. 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. All Rights Reserved. At approximately 4:30 pm the rain stopped and there was an eerie silence followed by the patter of what sounded like hail on the metal roof of the shop. The Jones & Robinson Families. My 6 year old son is a meteorologist in the making. This warning gave the precise location and direction of the sighted storm and it was barreling towards our neighborhood. My dad turned on the flashlight and the rumble began to slow. Another fatality occurred at a dollar store in Leachville, Arkansas. You could tell from the sirens and helicopters that it was really bad! To this day I tear up realizing they thought we might not make it that day. She recalled that the little girl used to perform cartwheels and splits in front of her, and liked to learn new dances from TikTok. No rain, no winds, just a deep calm and quiet. April 27, 2011 was a sad and horrific day for the southeast. First responders found them in the mud. The pastor called her death the will of God.. Dozens were killed as the tornadoes ripped through several states, including Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas. My neighbor, wearing a pink bathrobe, nodded towards the carport, in a manner that said "it's right there", I waved and said thanks and that I'd return it in the morning. As a side note I had never seen her act like that before or after that time period. A veteran of both World Wars suffered a heart attack directing traffic in the aftermath. She suffered a stroke and brain swelling and passed away from her injuries. 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. of 16. The River Region United Way has created a Disaster Relief Fund. I found her a flashlight, and scoped the inside of the house. The holes were all about 2-4 inches in diameter. 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. . The tornado warnings seem to be good as far as giving advance notice. He opened his arms and I hugged that man so hard he tapped my shoulder because I was squeezing him. Lives were saved that June afternoon thanks to their dedication and pursuit of the understanding of weather. js kx ku vl pm zo jr fq. The busy city streets worried Welser. Jucius did her grocery shopping Friday nights when her husband returned home with the car. Trees in their windbreak had no small branches or bark left, just bare wood, on the north and west sides of their trunks and larger branches. Terry and I were watching a reported tornado path north of us that was traveling east of Greenville across Miami County. The veteran was in the hallway when the roof collapsed and tragically didnt survive. They hadn't seen any storms on their maps and clearly thought me demented. He came back with a priest. At about 5 pm, I started hearing about a storm system off to the west. I could still see out the front windshield and I could see power lines exploding out in front of me. The one kept by his only daughter, Frieda, still has shards of glass from that day. The actual hail looked like it was grapefruit sized and went on just as long as the storm across town. Thats pretty common here. Finally it was over and we stepped outside to survey the scene. I realized I was alive and did not think I was hurt to badly. The damage, was far worse than anything I had envisioned, Alabama Gov. Published: 16:45 EST, 7 March 2013 | Updated: 17:40 EST, 7 . The father of a blended family of nine children, John Mobley and his 19-year-old son Roger, were on their way home from Union Carbide, where both worked making car door panels at 32nd Street and California Avenue. Every time I glanced at the storm I was alarmed by how much bigger it had become and how quickly it was approaching. Weve got to layer up and get ready, Perkins said as overnight lows over the next several days were due to dip below freezing. 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I have to say that praying and getting into that closet most likely saved our lives that night. My friend carried me to my mother, who then carried me to the car parked about 1/2 mile or so away. Our ornamental pear was shattered and shredded, laying in our back yard. 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. 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. Bernard and his wife bought their home in Oak Lawn the year before. Its in your carport." Dozens were killed as the tornadoes ripped through several states, including Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas. Nykeil was a plant janitor who lived on Moody Avenue in Oak Lawn. 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. He was killed at Southwest Highway and 95th Street. Soldiers with the 270th Military Police Company aided the San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Department in their search for missing 5-year-old Kyle Doan. The parents found Oaklynn and strapped her in her car seat, but her condition deteriorated in hospital. This page offers stories submitted by tornado and hail storm survivors. Was H.A.A.R.P. Middle child Ava suffered a broken vertebrae and is expected to undergo surgery. She wanted to go to college. We listened to the radio and heard that something was dissipating. While I was waiting the Tornado hit the shopping Center and sucked me out of the building. I found a support column to hold on to at first. The day had been beautiful, we were going to my husband's mother's house for a cookout. Everything fell on us. 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