Tornado aftermath in Washington, Il

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Only about 14 miles from my house. Some incredible hi-def photos of the power of an EF-4 tornado. It was moving at 55 mph across the area, so maybe that is why the farm fields look like a 60 grit sander was used on it. Only 1 death, proving the merit of getting underground for protection. Nearly everyone has a basement around here.
http://galleries.apps.chicagotribun...o-damage-pictures/#chi-aerial18swath-20131118
 
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Rich, we here in Oklahoma are thinking of everyone in Ill. we know what your going through, nature has a way of telling us who's boss.
 
My heart and prayers go out to my fellow Illinois folks. I went to school at Illinois State many years ago.

Remember the power of Mother Nature very well there as well as here down south now.
 
What a terrible disaster.
I grew up in Peoria and never remember any storms close to this magnitude.
Hope all friends there were spared serious damage.
God bless you all!
gordon
 
bobjackson said:
Rich, hope you guys are ok.
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Thanks for asking Bob, we weren't even home. We were around 65 miles southeast, loading a Uhaul truck with my Mother-in-law's stuff. I swore I heard something coming during the second wave of driving rain. No damages around there. Driving back home we saw a semi overturned on the interstate from straight line winds, and I had to have the steering wheel about 30 degrees into the wind to keep the truck straight. It was quite a weather day around here.
 
Quite the storm. Glad to hear your ok Rich. It came up here to southern Lasalle county where one farm house was destroyed and several others damaged. Thankfully it stayed in mostly farm land in my area and headed east. It was reported that part of the "welcome to Washington" sign was found in Streator IL, about 10 miles south of me, along with a lot of mail from there. Most of the damage in our area were power poles and and lines down, along with lots of debrie left in the fields from structures in its path. We spent all day at work coordinating with the power companies and townships closing roads. Thankfully no deaths. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who suffered loss in the storm.
 
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I'm amazed and glad that there was not a great loss of lives. Am also saddened that one person lost their life.
Having grown up in S. W Ohio, I went thru the April 1974 tornado outbreak and know the devastation that can happen. We had debri from Louisville tornado dropping out of the storms that hit around us at that time. Louisville is about 90-100 miles away from my part of Ohio.

Thanks for putting up the photos. I have relatives living in the area(Peoria).
Russ
 
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