This date in 1974

[78SA]

Any of you remember the tornado outbreak back then? I was 8 and remember it.

https://www.wlky.com/article/belskis...WPrNhD5SqUEqK0

[MrPeabody]

I don't remember that, but then I live in California and we didn't have 'round the clock news on TV then. Sounds nasty.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by 78SA

Any of you remember the tornado outbreak back then? I was 8 and remember it.

https://www.wlky.com/article/belskis...WPrNhD5SqUEqK0

For Strongsville, OH, it was 1965. It took out houses that were never replaced where I lived.

https://patch.com/ohio/strongsville/...ears-ago-today

I lived on Atlantic Rd., albeit, I wasn't born until '68, but the impact of that storm hit that street for the entire 20 years I resided there.

[markids77]

I was too busy trying to lose my virginity to notice much else.

[78SA]

Originally Posted by markids77

I was too busy trying to lose my virginity to notice much else.

[simpleman68]

Holy hell....

This outbreak had 148 tornadoes.....
315 fatalities
5,500 injuries

The 1974 outbreak had
7 F5 tornadoes

[69camfrk]

Sounds like an outbreak of the herpes except with busted trailers.

[Grey Ghost]

Yes. We had multiple fatalities from one that tore through here. One particular family in particular. We lived a few miles from it's path, but I remember watching it go through in horror. All there was in those days was the civil defense. A few people came through looking for volunteers to help and they all climbed into back of pickup trucks to go help. I remember the strong smell of the broken pine trees and complete destruction.

Here is the only family survivors story. Several others beside this family also suffered fatalities. It is legendary here. I've lived through several of them. Not something I would wish on my worst enemy.

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/...d4450a79c.html

[Grey Ghost]

http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh...eak_in_Georgia

[Lakeside49]

Yes - the devastating Xenia, OH carnage was regularly in the news for two years

[Dan Dlabay]

I was at a friends house in Xenia when the tornado hit. We went to the basement and when it was over we had to push the door open to get out. The roof of the house was gone. 33 people were killed in Xenia that day. A sad and scary day.

[Lakeside49]

Wow. First hand! Your experience seems like an apocalyptic movie scene. As a young boy I can vividly remember my parents (from Indiana - Ft. Wayne and Decatur) talking in genuinely horrified, and concerned hushed tones after that tragedy.

[Mike Mercury]

friend of mine (Bruce Boyd) was the person that took the 8mm film of the tornado while it was in Xenia.

My dad took-off with me and a neighbor kid as soon as it was reported on the radio. As we approached the Arrowhead neighborhood... total silence; almost every house flattened, nothing but bare slabs showing.

[dvarapala]

We got one of the smaller ones in the Chicago area. I was playing in the park when it struck; I remember running home with sand and dirt being blown into my eyes. One of the 100-year-old giant trees in the park blew over and we spend the next couple of days playing in it.

[Mike Mercury]

The 1974 Xenia Ohio tornado (40 years) - YouTube

Xenia, Ohio Killer Tornado with Audio - YouTube

was April 4.

infamous "hook" on weather radar screen:

[Cybercowboy]

I remember. We moved to Joplin in spring of '74, after the spring school semester was finished. I was going to start 8th grade and then go to the high school named Parkwood back then, and my parents showed me where I'd be going to high school. The gym was knocked down by what they then called "straight line winds" but we now know them as microbursts. I was like "Damn, why are we moving to a place that has weather that destroys high schools?"

In 2011 the Joplin tornado completed the job started in 1974 by destroying that same high school, which was then known as Joplin High. They have since rebuilt Joplin High, to the tune of something like $70 million. It's really nice though, I did a tour of it just before it opened. Waaaaay overkill IMHO. It was like "This is our one opportunity to build a super expensive school, let's not blow it!"

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Lakeside49

Yes - the devastating Xenia, OH carnage was regularly in the news for two years

For some reason I thought Xenia was a few years earlier ? I do remember hearing about that one.

[78SA]

I didn't expect anyone connected to the Xenia tornado to be here.

[Black94lt1]

Originally Posted by 78SA

I didn't expect anyone connected to the Xenia tornado to be here.

I was only about 1 at the time and we lived ~1hour north of there near Lima