Flashback in History: The Tri-State Tornado
Our hospital comes out with a "Noon News" newsletter every day. They always include some interesting little bit of trivia and today's is focused on a moment in history. The "Tri-State Tornado" (personally I think Twister would have been a better word to use) was the worst in U.S. history. It ocurred on March 18, 1925 and passed through eastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, killing 695 people, injuring some 13,000, and causing $17 million in property damage.
Now that's a lot of twister. I remember a few years ago we had over a hundred twisters touch down in the midwest within a month's time span. I was at my parents' home when one went across the landscape south of town and another north of town. It was kinda cool watching the sky turn a really putrid shade of gray-green as well as the wall of rain as it came towards us. Although exciting in some ways, I prefer to go without that kind of stimulation. I hope this year is calm!
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I have seen a documentary on that very twister. Very interesting and frightening.
I remember when a twister carried a barn from across Hwy 2 to the pond near where you used to live just east of Milton. Can't remember for the life of me whether you lived there at the time or not.
My mom remembers huddling in the Milton high school when a tornado went nearby and one of the pipes bursting and spraying water over everyone. She was pregnant with me at the time. (Yes, I was definitely an unplanned birth.)
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