Chase Case #11

[Wes Carter]

My family and I were in #135. My mother was pregnant with my little brother and we were in the car. I was in the backseat when my dad stopped and my mother started yelling for me to get down. I had to look to see what the commotion was about. Just ahead, the roof lifted off of a funeral home and 'blackbirds" were circling. My dad still denied it was a tornado because he never saw a funnel. We were too close to see the funnel.

 

[Paul Townsend]

I can't take rl credit. I was only 3.5 yrs old. Go ahead and laugh, all you young-uns. Yes I was alive that long ago, but I didn't cut my teeth on tornadoes until I was about 8 or 9 . A nice wedge passed within 5 miles of my Greenwood, AR home at the time as I watched from a bathroom window. I was instantly hooked. I need to look up the date.

I was 2.75 years old. And just 2.5 weeks later my lifelong passion with tornadoes began when my house was hit by the Oshkosh, WI F4 tornado on April 21, 1974. We only received F0 to possibly low F1 damage to the house.

 

[Buddy W Bradley]

The satellite pic is what clued me in. My pick too was gonna be at the bowling alley in Zenia OH or maybe the high school. I was only 9yrs old then.