I expected to hear a train like sound but it sounded more like a fighter jet that was very angry. The drive will last through Thursday, January 19. The body of Annistyn Rackley, nine, was found in a field after the twister devastated her parents' home near Caruthersville, southeast Missouri on Friday. When that happened, he looked over and saw the shelf was going to collapse on top of my father. 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. My mind was racing with a million thoughts, regrets, prayers, etc., but I still noticed the pressure change and could feel air from under the door as it blew in towards me, then sucked back out of the room. zb. I remember looking out the window expecting to see another tornado any minute. Once we all got downstairs, we heard really loud banging on the roof. Even canned goods! It got so dark we couldnt see each other in the car, Roger said. She lived in Worth and was driving home from work down Southwest Highway. Some of my friends almost died because large trees fell. It was just a light rain and the lightning was in a distance so I stayed in my pickup truck parked next to a fence with a large tree in front of me and a metal carport to the left of me. Kathryn Begay. Updated 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. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated EF-3, meaning gusts of at least 136 mph the weather service said. 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 dryer vent had been shattered. 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. Safety1325 East West HighwaySilver Spring, MD 20910Comments? I agreed and since we were downstairs in our lower level anyway we got in our downstairs bath and kept the door open so we could at least track status on the TV. I yelled and we all went into the basement. We remember 2x4s flying high up in the sky like helicopter propellers. At least 89 people have died in a monster tornado that left a path of destruction nearly a mile (1 km) wide through the heart of Joplin, Missouri, and directly hit the small Midwestern city's . The Selma tornado was rated EF-2, the weather service said. It was odd because with the rain, I figured the atmosphere had stabilized some. Two Bibles were recovered intact from the wrecked car. It had held. Then it felt like the house exploded. 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. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 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. I am lucky to be alive for sure. The day began like any other. Some of my other instructor colleagues saw me and came up to me and asked me if I was okay. I was out on the back lot, what we call the backing pad, when it began to storm. We thought we were in the clear but the night had just begun. After Mason tried to kill her twice, the second attempt restored her memory. - Tornadoes. As soon as we shut the door, we hear what sounded like a freight train. Meghan suffered broken bones, a brain injury, and a large cut, while dad Trey, 37, suffered cuts and bruises. I could not understand what it was saying but I assumed it meant tornado. Birmingham employees were working Saturday morning to help clean up debris left in the wake of Thursday's tornado in Selma. I was living in Lancing TN on a farm in a mobile home. I heard things slamming my house, then the sheetrock overhead fell down and it sounded like my roof lifted and came back down. She hadnt an enemy in the world. Clark was buried out of Our Lady of the Ridge in Chicago Ridge. I felt warmth on my wet head coming from a small cut. It lasted for about 45 seconds but it seemed like a lifetime. Be weather aware. Fast forward almost 9 years, I was visiting a friend's house for an Easter cookout. Nykeil was a plant janitor who lived on Moody Avenue in Oak Lawn. My back, head, and lower legs were hit the hardest. An estimated 383 people were killed in that weeklong . My dad and my uncles yelled from the front porch to get into the basement because the tornado was "coming over the mountain.". Christine had written to airlines asking for information on becoming an airline stewardess. I thought it was over but then my dad said, "Here it comes get ready." They were standing outside while sirens were going off looking at the green skies when things got unusually calm and quiet. Hunoway worked in the shipping department for a Bensenville firm that manufactured steel pipes for sewers. My poor babies. Griffith was an engineering associate for Illinois Bell Telephone Co. in Rolling Meadows. The two other Garland victims were Jose Oviedo Juarez, 19, and Timothy Harris, 58. 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. Jay Nixon says while the process of identifying tornado victims is improved, some bodies remain "unrecognizable." I ran for the house and my baby. So I had to wait. On Friday, Ivey said she would reach out to President Joe Biden to encourage him to declare a state of emergency. Was H.A.A.R.P. Anyway, I pulled in and it was lightly raining. He said it again and he went to crying.. Fortunately the only issues we had were loss of power for a few days and my childrens school, Cathedral High School was destroyed. Very few injuries or fatalities occurred. Power lines were down. 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. In addition to tornado and storm destruction, damaging winds spun across the region from Mississippi to Virginia. 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. As I drove home, the closer I got, the worse things looked. She ran and dove into the pews while the tornado moved and twisted the church off its foundation. We were all piled into this corner of the basement just freaking out while my Nana was praying in a language I didn't understand. I listen to the Weather Channel and am grateful. The next morning Joans body was pulled out of the rubble. Cordel Tyus and Devo McGraw sit on roofing that blew off of an industrial building and wrapped around their house Thursday after a tornado ripped through Selma, Alabama. Didnt do any damage to speak of. "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.. We were blessed and spared that day. He died two days later of his injuries at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park. 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 ran to my son, yanked him with a one-handed grab from his crib just an instant before the window exploded, and wrapping him into my arms I scurried down to the basement and into the root cellar. Kaitlyn Moore, 29, was found with methamphetamine hidden in her body cavity . 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. Valeria found a tunnel and crawled outside. turned on cuz joplin's gone, theres bodies twisted in my lawn!brains hanging out, flesh eating fungus, weaponized, no doubt,walking,stepping,c. Nineteen severe hail reports were recorded in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia. pe. For me, the sound of the nuclear plant sirens being used as tornado sirens was the scariest. The closet that we were in was OK and we were OK. Only the door frame remained of the room to the west of the closet, right next to the closet. qy. She was excited about her upcoming First Communion. Much of the day was spent playing "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" on my fathers Xbox 360. Things started to happen pretty quickly after that. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. My mamaw and great grandmother were both horrified of storms, probably an undiagnosed case of lilapsophobia or astraphobia. A lot of people are hurting. It scared me because she was so loud and said to get in the car now. Three members of a family in Cookeville, Tenn., were identified by family and friends as among those killed in the Putnam County twister. 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. I opened my eyes and moved part of the ceiling truss that had concussed me. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. He had no broken bones and his body was still intact. The rain was light. Springfield, Massachusetts is a relative stranger to the ravages of these types of storms. Hearses carrying the bodies of tornado victims leave St. Gerald's after a mass funeral. I called for the boys to get back in 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. I couldnt breathe because I was being crushed. ". Till this day, I still remember that day and it still plays in my head. Mobley was a deeply religious man. Roof, metal,and rocks. 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. 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