Title: 1974 Xenia Tornado Source:
You Tube URL Source:[None] Published:Mar 25, 2011 Author:wo4w Post Date:2011-03-25 21:57:56 by CZ82 Keywords:None Views:4870 Comments:3
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I thought this might be appropriate because it's now tornado season (we had a warning just last night). This video shows just how destructive an F5 tornado can be, even though there are no really good vids of the actual tornado. I was supposed to be working in Xenia that day, but my boss called me and told me not to come in because our furniture delivery didn't happen..... thank god for small favors because I would have been at "ground zero"..... Instead I was about 6 miles away helping the next door neighbor deliver papers before the storm hit. The thing I remember the most was before it hit it was real windy and then all of a sudden it got real quiet, no wind, no birds chirping no nothing. The next sound I heard was a sound like a distant freight train. There were train tracks about a mile away from where we were, so that is what I thought it was. About 2 or 3 minutes later we heard on the radio that a tornado had touched down in Xenia. That's when I realized the tornado was the sound I had heard....... kinda scary even to this day.....
I don't doubt that, I've also heard stories of things being deposited hundreds of miles away from "ground zero".....
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
Went with my best friend and his father to pick up a freezer from relatives who's home was destroyed. Took hours to get through the national guard checkpoint. We were passing through a normal sub division, then suddenly came upon the path of the Xenia tornado. The debris field was about a quarter of a mile wide. You never forget something like this. As we drove through the debris field you could see literally 'horizon to horizon' utter devastastion. Nothing was left intact.
When we got to the relative's home, the only thing on the concrete foundation was the freezer. Even the carpetting was gone from underneath the freezer. One wall remained upright, and it was nothing but the 'stud wall'.
