Chilling Videos From the Indiana Tornado Rampage
- Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:32pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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The destruction of life and property at the hands of vicious storms and tornados that ravaged through the South and Midwest Friday has been astounding. The Associated Press reports that at least 38 people have died across five states, and emergency officials are continuing to search through leveled towns in the hope of finding survivors.
“Friday’s violent storms touched down in at least a dozen states from Georgia to Illinois, killing 19 people in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, three in Ohio, and one each in Alabama and Georgia. They scarred the landscape over hundreds of miles, leaving behind a trail of shredded sheet metal, insulation, gutted churches, crunched-up cars and even a fire hydrant.”
The small southern Indiana town of Henryville was hit hard by merciless storms Friday, having several residents represented among the 14 Indianans confirmed to have been killed during the storm. Joe Sullivan, a National Weather Service meteorologist, explained to CNN that the tornado that swept through the area of Henryville was an EF-4 — meaning it had sustained winds of between 166 and 200 mph, putting it in the top 2% of all tornadoes in terms of strength. Sullivan told CNN that the tornado went for 52 miles and was roughly 150 yards wide.
Lawrence Smith, a reporter with WDRB, caught the tornado heading towards him on video, running to a convenience store for cover as the storm headed his way:
Additional video of the Twister hurdling towards Henryville:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels spoke with CNN Saturday as he was observing the damage to Henryville, a town populated by just under 2,000 people.
We‘re not unfamiliar with Mother Nature’s wrath out here in Indiana,” Gov. Daniels said. “But this about as serious as we‘ve seen it in the years I’ve been in this job.”
President Barack Obama has offered federal assistance to the states hit hard by the storm, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared an emergency Saturday.
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OniKaze
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:05pmAs an Indiana native, all I can say is now we know a little of how Joplin, MO felt….
Its a shame that people are suffering and that this happens to them, but hey, that is the risk of living in the midwest….. We have no real danger from Hurricanes, Tsunami’s or any other water related disasters, but we ARE at the mercy of the Great winds caused by twisters….
Its a trade off people, Live on the west coast and you are plagued by: Wild Fires, Hurricanes, Tsunami’s, earthquakes and legally insane politicians…. in the Mid-west, all we really have is tornado’s and tiny (usually) earthquakes…
Which is why the Mid-west is STILL the best place in the USA to live…. The people are sane (for the most part) and the weather is fairly nice….
Report Post »FaceSupplements
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:43amI signed up just to post on this story. I live about 7 miles from where this occurred, and I have to say a majority of the comments on this story just piss me off. People died, people were injured, possessions were destroyed, and many lives were changed and you all are making jokes about it. I don’t know if half you all on this site are now trolls, but seriously, have you lost everything in you that makes you human?
The communities surrounding Henryville; such as Sellersburg, New Albany, Floyds Knobs, and even people from Louisville, Ky have donated so much clothing and food that the Red Cross cannot even store it. That is what people around here are like; we take care of each other and don’t make jokes about others hardship. There have been so many volunteers that they have been turning them away, and have told them to come back at a later date.
In closing, just shut your mouths instead of make some dumb comment.
Report Post »a4dp
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:00amAmen!
Report Post »Cabreramiggs
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:32pmAt what point will local building codes be improved to provide better protection for these residents ?
It seems like the norm is to build and build again….but no improvements with building codes.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 5:51pmBuilding codes! Seriously? If you’ve ever been anywhere near severe tornado damage, like we have been witness to, building concrete bunkers with no windows to avoid it is your only option. Head on a strong tornado will take out anything!!!!!!!
Report Post »a4dp
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:54amReally? It was an EF4 tornado. The ignorance of people just blows my mind.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:08pmESSENCE428:
Chem Trails again? Anyone think these weather patterns are maybe caused by Mother Nature (aka God)? Naw, it’s gotta be some conspiracy thought up by the government.
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:30amTornadoes, earthquakes, rumors of wars about to begin and then, this morning I find this quaint little headline:
A 60 meter wide asteroid to graze,or possibly impact Earth in February 2013.
The expert’s current calculations put it within 16,000 miles of Earth, close enough to get sucked in by gravity.
http://rt.com/news/paint-asteroid-earth-nasa-767/
Note to self…….remain optimistic……remain optimistic……
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 6:45pmIf all this hits don’t worry… Your boss will still expect you at work the next day. Nothing stops a work day! If you miss a day you go under…
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:01amAdditional video of the twister HURTLING towards Henryville.
Spell check…
Thoughts for all involved.
Report Post »pizzacorner
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:10amWe can only HOPE Obama and the Hollywood Elite will have a $38,500/plate fundraiser for these poor people.
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:55amObama has apologized to the tornados for careless Americans cluttering their beautiful winds.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:49amI think I saw the constitution go up that tornado. It’s gone now.
Report Post »iwojo
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 2:05amgreat kite flying … makin’ lemonade, ya know ??
Report Post »Copper Catfish
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:48pmGov. Mitch has a short memory. The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 was a tornado that formed early in the morning of November 6, 2005, outside of Evansville, Indiana. The tornado resulted in 25 confirmed fatalities across the region, making it the deadliest and most destructive November tornado in Indiana’s history.
How could he forget?
crustyda
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:47pmWhoa – backup Buckwheat! Did you forget the “Palm Sunday” tornado massacre(s) back in the mid-60′s? To this date that is the deadliest tornado out break in Indiana history! Before one engages mouth so both feet can be placed in – one should do just a little research – otherwise the egg on the face belongs only to you!
No matter how you look at a “Natural Disaster” – whether it be a Tornado, Earthquake, Flood, Hurricane, Volcano Eruption, etc. NONE compare to the one you have experienced and SURRIVED – which MANY don’t – can’t even come close to any other in HISTORY, but don’t lessen this event because of another event, BECAUSE IT DOESN’T COMPARE! If you think it does then you are a FOOL who doesn’t know **** from shineola! No pitty FOOL! One disaster CAN’T and never will compare to another – th
Report Post »Crane Guy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:22pmIJT
Report Post »try Proverbs 10:18
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:43pmSilly me, I should have known that all this, all these thousands of years of people getting born and people dying is for nothing. And that there is no possibility of anyone’s seeds getting taken anywhere else. Except that I’d be lying if I said that. What do people think that someday the sun super-novas and that’s just the end for all the generations and generations of souls on earth? Surely not, that would be a waste of this field. Some but not all will be leaving, and the rest will be destroyed if they don‘t conquer by the end of this star’s life.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:51pmAs for all the conquerors eventually have your tickets ready and don’t retrieve anything from your house if you are on the roof or in the field. You’ll be traveling Air Enos at many times the speed of light to a world far far away.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:52pmWhat Is Wrong With These People?
They live in tornado ally yet none of them build a cement block storm cellar in their back yard. When they build their new houses, they could have asked the builder to add on a storm cellar. Its like the people up North who have days of power outages every year but don’t buy back up generators or keep extra food on hand..
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:18amteamarcheson
Report Post »actually Indiana, Kentucky, & Ohio are just outside of tornado alley.. this kind of storm system very rarely comes this far north east.
kevinj319
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 2:20am@Stoic one
Actually, although Indiana is not typically “drawn” on the maps as being part of tornado alley, it is one of the most active states for tornadoes. If you consider the number of tornadoes per square mile, Indiana ranks number three, behind only Florida (also not in the alley) and Oklahoma.
Indiana has also been part of some of the most violent tornado outbreaks of the past.
Report Post »a4dp
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:00amTEAMARCHESON, what is wrong with you? Is your heart that cold? These people lost EVERYTHING and you ask what is wrong with them? The lack of compassion that people like you have just blows my mind.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:38pmThere were other dreams I used to have like snakes everywhere, and it reminded me when Florida started having massive problems with snakes, but even Florida isn’t the only place they have snake problems. And to me a coffin isn‘t a coffin but it’s a suitcase you’re put in to go on a trip. Yeah I’d say were only a few short years from the end of this one journey to start another.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:47pmWe are just a few short years from the boarding process to take you to the place getting prepared since the beginning of the world. Please have your tickets out and ready when the boarding begins or you may be sent to the back of the line.
Report Post »BlesstheJews
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:20pmIf these tornados were in New Orleans or any other “choclate city” as Ray Nagin would say, their would be lootings, murders and housing assistance out the wazoo….Obama hates white people.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:18pmIndianans is not a word. Try Hoosiers… like the movie… or the tire.
Report Post »A Hoosier Says
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 4:23pmThat was really strange and poor journalism. I have never heard of an “Indianan” before.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:42pmWhere was our Superzero?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:19pmHe was in NY, FUNDRAISING and PartyingDown…
Report Post »Gotta’ raise that BILLION $$$$$$ Ya, Know !!
dealer@678
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:34pmI can’t recall in my lifetime tornados this violent happening in the winter. This is weird
Report Post »Marci
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:41pmI can–I grew up in Arkansas, and we would start to have them as early as January. One year, we had them on Christmas Eve.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:43pmIt is a sign of the times. We have been having a bunch of winter thunderstorms and I have never heard of that.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:03pmIt is all due to man made global warming, just ask Al Gore.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:13pmWhen I was young I used to dream about tornadoes all the time. Then again I used to dream about being able to leap over telephone pole power-lines too.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:21pmI’m fairly good at interpreting my childhood dreams. All the tornado dreams were about the coming plagues of tornadoes. The dreams about the power-lines were about the coming dangers to the power grids. My dreams about vampires were about the coming leeches destroying America, and the walking corpses were about viruses and people who are dead inside. Yeah that about sums up our future.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:31pmOh, Gawd !! Gore will be coming out of the woodwork
Report Post »with his Global Warming Crap again, but I think his new
Project is Population Control, now….That’s Right !!!
1956
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:13amI live in Indiana (55+ years old) and it’s happened before… many times.
Report Post »angelofmercy
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 10:10amIt isn’t weird if you live in Tornado Alley. 2/10/09 an EF4 hit near where I live in OK. and 8 people died. The sad thing is that we had 30-35 min warning that the storm heading our way , had already produced a tornado . That’s if you were watching the weather.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:58pmBush’s fault?
Report Post »essence428
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:47amYeah, that’s what some will claim….but others out there would say “Chem Trails” are responsible for all of this bizarre weather we are having…it is interesting if you read about it..
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