you th ink you are so cool because you live close i live in p.burg i didnt get hit but my great great aunt and uncle got hit and my uncle was found under a truck he was 87 and my aunt was safly foun=d in the basmet any way it was scary and I REALLY TULLY LIVE IN P.BURG
immeohmyoh, you are a disgrace to mankind. uneducated, unintelligent waste of oxygen. people that think and speak this way have nothing to offer this world.
iowa pride=iowa greed=gimmegimmegimme $ not to plant corn, $ TO plant corn, ethanol subsidies, ethanol mandates, femafemafema$please, $ 4 gay tourism, $ 4 1st nat'l primary tourism= flooding from raping the land=tornadoes from excess heat and moisture. iowa 4 iowans! hahaha lolol. iowa your responsible 4 killing your own people and you destroy the world's health and climate w/ high fructose corn syrup and corn burning. rape the land no more. sin no more. renounce greed.
My friend was working at that Kwik Star when the tornado went through. She said it was horrible. She said she found a woman trapped in a car but later that woman died. :(
She also said that she had this terrible nausea strike her when she went to search for her daughter. Thank God her daughter was alive!
As you all know who have lived through this horrible nightmare, that the one year anniversary of this disaster is coming upon us. The events that unfolded that day are still fresh in my mind. I remeber coming home from the store and I realized that everything just seemed strange..like the world stopped. Then I remember seeing this monster growing dark and snarling like something out of my worst nightmares. It's an experience I hope you would never have to witness.
3 years back there was one in parkersburg wv that went through my grand parents yard and completely launched rv's from wolf camper sales into the area.
I live in Waverly, too. I agree ... we could hear this constant loud rumbling up in the clouds as they went over. It was like loud thunder that never stopped. I know people in Plainfield that said the same thing.
Once in Texas I lived in a mobile home and in the night a tornado passed just overhead. It sucked out 2 windows. We could hear that "freight train" sound getting closer and closer for a full minute beforehand. It's a really helpless feeling. Because you know that if it hits, a mobile home is not going to offer any protection.
Once in Texas in the middle of a dark stormy night a tornado passed just overhead. We could hear that freight train sound approaching for a full minute beforehand. Thankfully it didn't quite touch down till after it had passed us. All it did was blow out some windows of our house, but a couple hundred yards away it uprooted a big cottonwood tree and tore out a chainlink fence.
I was less than an hour away from that tornado. I thank the lord for letting it have dodged me, but curse nature for it's carelessness for human,plant,and animal life. Some things just aren't fair in this world, I would name that one.
god didnt cause this tornado... a thunderstorm did. they are a natural occurence and have happened probably for centuries. Some areas are more prone to tornados, and again it's NATURAL
God I am so lucky to live in Independence... This town has dodged so many tornados... We were right on the south edge of the storm and the sirens only when off twice... It was nice and sunny in the front of my house but in the back all you saw was black.... It was crazy..... And then it flooded... But it didnt get my house.... Thank christ
Well I never thought I would have posted a video about a tornado warning in my area (NJ), but I spent late this afternoon in my basement because they issued a tornado warning for the NY-NJ area. It was bad out there, intense lightning and high winds. There were hail storms all this week here, I mean it looked like winter in some areas and numerous tornado warnings in South Jersey that I hadn't even heard about it until today.
Thank the Lord it didn't happen here they way they were predicting.
Just an update confirming what I said earlier about severe weather everywhere. There were tornado warnings this afternoon in Ct. and Long Island. I know for sure that Ct. had a very bad storm today. Something like 6 inches of rain in a couple of hours.
God doesn't hate Iowa, or anybody. If that's the case, than God hates the whole world or else we wouldn't have natural disasters like wild fires, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and things like that, and we wouldn't have war either. Things like this happen and it's only when things like this don't happen to you is when you think it's funny to point and say things like that. I went to Parkersburg today and clean up is going well and I hope everyone who lives there keeps their heads up. :]
I have been concerned about the people there because even though this town is far from where I live it's all the same great country and EVERYONE matters whether near or far.
The weather is scary lately everywhere. I don't ever remember as many strong thunderstorms around my area of the country as we have had this summer. Summer used to be fun now almost every day holds fear.
God will bring Parkersburg and all of us through these times of trouble.
Your right. God does hate Iowa. But, through Jesus Christ, God has redeemed Iowa, the world, and you to Him if you accept His gift of regeneration through His Son. :)
Iowa people, I feel for you and would love to help cleanup if I were within 700 miles of the state. Other end of I-70.
God does not hate anyone. God loves all people even when they do not accept him. I do believe though that he creates these types of things for the better. There is always a silver lining to every situation. But as I said, God does not hate anyone no matter what sins they have committed.
I have to say that my heart goes out to all of the residents in parkersburg Iowa. I and many others are trying to do there part in rebuilding the Kwik Trip. It is very sad to see that happen to anyone. It is a tragedy to hear that there were lives that were taken, my heart truely goes out to all of Parkersburg.
God doesn't hate anyone. As truelotus108 has stated there is killer weather everywhere. I have experienced bad flooding where I live as well as very severe thunderstorms and a couple of years ago this month what the weather service described as a tree-top tornado. I firmly believe that when people make a joke out of a tragedy like this, they are really scared deep down inside and this behavior sets up a shield around that fear.
I got an e-mail response from leebob. I had a theory that he might be young, stupid or perhaps a sociopath. He is clearly a sociopath. Just came back to clarify. He says God hates Iowa, when really God doesn't hate anyone, leebob.
No matter where you live, on the Coasts, in the Midland, there is killer weather. I actually think that leebob's only chance of getting a life is to actually experience a tragedy, that is, if he's capable of love.
My home was destroyed in Hugo, tornado. When I think of it, I know if it was an F5 that I would be dead, or my pets. As bad as Hugo was after a F3, I did not know, until today, looking for a photo of the Hugo, tornado that one of the 3 tornados from the same storm, was F5 and was the one in Iowa. People in the tornado world! Make a plan. Take just a few minutes. An F5, you must know. No siren? Get a tornado box. It is like a fire alarm, but when the weather service warns of tornado. Truelotus
anyone disturbed by leebob86's comments... check out his channel. it's like 90% cat videos 9% nascar and 1% whatever dumbass racist crap he could find to post. do not waste your time being upset about morons like leebob. he's going to die and become fertilizer just like the rest of us, no matter how superior he may think he is.
About leebob: Some people are too young to be posting here. Some people are just stupid. Some people have no sense of conscience, and are unable to feel a sense of empathy for others. The latter are called sociopaths. Who knows or cares which of these is true of leebob. There are leaders of nations who are awfully disturbing, too! I can think of several offhand.
i was just here a few days after the tornado hit, and i saw all of the damage, and it was actually worse than what you can see on the video! most houses were completely gone, and some peoples stuff ended up all the way in wisconsin!
im sorry if you misunderstood my comment ,when i saw the video the scenes very terrible i got mad i felt realy sad about it and my expression that you didint understand was this one ( i dont understand why the hell they keep building houses of paper , i mean not enough strong thats why i said paper , then i said if they know that in that place theres a problem whith tornadoes , why dont they build strong houses of concrete .
does anyone recognize the grey car sitting at the gas pump :30 sec. into the video? cuz i helped flip the car over from its side and pulled an older man out of it. no idea who it was though....
yeah i live in pburg and i was right thru the middle of it as i was in the basement of my buddies house with his parents...the house was completely gone! shit was crazy and ill never forget that night
I live 30 miles from Parkersburg and went to help the victims out.. It was the most humbling thing I have ever seen... The pure power of tornados is absolutely unreal. God have mercy on Iowa... the floods in Mason City, Clarksville, and other communities are adding more families to the list of homeless...
just like florida always tends to after big hurricanes... like andrew for instance.. if there is anything worth saving it for people will overcome and find away.
10 days before the tornado hit...they installed a tornado siren in the south of Parkerburg because there was only one in the north side and the south couldnt here it so they installed one before the tornado hit which saved a lot of live probaly
it was flat.i live about 1-2 hours away and a guy that works for my dad, lives there and he told us his house was torn off the foundation.my teachers also went last sunday to help out and took pictures. it was like nothing was ever there, but had like stuff everywhere.its really horrible. and we heard a story where this guy went back to get his fone for later and completly got riped out of his house. And an old couple didnt make it because they where to old, and couldnt hurry into the basement.
I was there tonight to help feed the residents and volunteers. I have never seen anything like the total devistation in Parkersburg. The people were incredible. They were friendly and upbeat. Pray for these incredible people to help them through this struggle!
thank you for posting an actual video of the damage. I can't stand how people are putting fake stuff on here. People died and some are making fun of it. nobody watch the video from rut and strut. the church is in iowa city. once again thank you for being truthful about this horrible disaster
our region just went through this on mother's day - in picher, oklahoma, 6 people lost their lives to an f4 tornado. the aftermath looked just like this, basically like armageddon. really it's just a wonder that more people didn't lose their lives in either of these storms when you look at the damage.
damn, what the hell, this is unreal. I never seen so much destruction from a tornado before, this looks like someone dropped a bomb on the place. What the hell is wrong with our weather.
well i have seen many tornados, and this year is much worst then an average year. This place looks unreal, it really looks like someone dropped a bomb down on this place. This tornado of been some kind of freak tornado.
Nope, not a freak tornado whatsoever. A VERY strong tornado. An extremely rare EF-5 tornado, but nothing freak about it. While very, very few EF-5's occur, they can happen when the conditions are utopian as they were that day, for 3 days actually. More often than not, strong tornadoes don't hit anything, but when they do, this is the result. It's horrible, but inevitable.
The big one was a mile away from my house. We had 2 on the north and south of us too. Right as it got into cedar falls we had just pulled in the driveway. We had no idea what was going on until we saw it. If it would have changed directions like it was said it was going to do our house would have been demolished!
i'm from iowa too, but i'm just a kid. and being just miles away from all this disatser makes me want to cry. just imagine for one second, your home which you love so much has gone to shreds along with everything you love. now put that into persective and think about it. everyone in the dister, you are in my prayers. god bless you, and we will do everything we can to help out (:
im a kid too, from iowa, and it shows how much everyone cares in iowa about each other doesnt it? and even more people lost there homes this week in iowa, its very sad. :(
If any of you see a jerk trying to use this disaster to hype themselves on here, PLEASE - let the rest of us know! If we all band together, we can flood the hell out of their userpage & maybe even get them to leave youtube.
yo no se porque putas sigen contruyendo casitas de papel si saben que ahy siempre tienen ese problema con los tornados ,mejor casas fuertes de concreto solido chales
I translated this earlier, for some reason, youtube didn't post it. Narizalcanzaquesos says: "I don't know why bitches continue building little houses of paper if they know that there will always be this problem with tornados." He goes on to say concrete houses are stronger. Perhaps youtube will put this reply up and in the correct place.
thank you for posting an actual video of the damage. I can't stand how people are putting fake stuff on here. People died and some are making fun of it. nobody watch the video from rut and strut. the church is in iowa city. once again thank you for being truthful about this horrible disaster
My sister lives in Parkersburg, her house was saved. She said she could hear the tornado, it passed only a block from her house. Please pray for all the families who have suffered.
I started crying when my brother called me about an hour after the storm-he was walking through town trying to help. My parents live about 7 minutes south in Stout-I moved up to WI. I'm so shocked! And I went to Jr. High in New Hartford! ClintB how are you?
I've been busy trying to get things back together, most of the wreck is cleaned up in New Hartford, over 13 farms outside of town (including my supervisors house) are gone and all of Deer Ridge is leveled. I flew out to my Buddy Sean's house ten minutes after the storm cleared so I could make sure he was still alive, I drove by the cemetery and it looked like a nuke went off. The next day I hadta sneak into parkersburg and I about fainted, I'm still having troubles believing its Parkersburg
this was an immense tornado. The damage path looks to be over a mile wide. I would put it an an EF-4... most of the damage you see is EF-3, but there are some strong framed houses that are totally obliviated with no interior walls remaining upright. This has been a BUSY week.
I know. I made this statement the following day when seeing this video for the first time. In THIS particulat video, there is not EF-5 damage. But it obviously did do a small amount of EF-5 damage and therefore was correctly rated an EF-5 tornado. The footage from the bank is incredible. Never before has footage of an EF4-5 tornado been seen that close up. Especially as it dismantles a structure.
I live in New Hartfofrd, 7 miles from parkersburg, It's way worse than any of the videos could ever show. Everything is just wiped off the map. I've been living in this area my whole life and I couldn't recognize any of it.
I heard that most of the people who were killed in these storms were in their basements,and houses collapsed on them.Need to probably come up with some other means to lay a foundation over a basement in Tornado areas,sincere thoughts and prayers,May the Lord Jesus Christ,comfort the hearts of those there,Glory to God.
My thoughts in prayers are with you from Boone, Iowa. I was so nervous because some family was heading back home to waterloo and they called and told me when they got home the sky was pitch black.
Thoughts from Toledo! I was up and chased this storm from the Waterloo Airport east. The damage path got so bad I couldn't go any farther. I'm a police officer so I ended up joining house searches with an off duty BlackHawk county deputy for a couple hours before i headed back home. I'm going back to Parkersburg today to volunteer, it looks so horrible :(
Yeah I was around the area today too and I couldn't recognize it either. I live in Waterloo but am originally from Iowa Falls. When I was in high school some friends and I always used to go to Kwik Star in town to get those huge Mega Buddies fountain drinks because they didnt have them in IF.
Even to this day my wife and I drive thru Parkersburg to visit my family in Iowa Falls. Something different than HWY 20 you know. Our prayers go out to everyone in the area.
That is true my family found an invoice for tires in there lawn from Parkersberg although there was no name of who it belonged to. my family lives in Elkader Ia. That is over 70 miles, how crazy is that!!!!!
This is just so sad. I never lived in Parkersburg, but it's has many memories of me traveling through it between Iowa City and Minneapolis. No more gas station or ice cream stops...
I just moved to Charles city, about 3 months ago. People here were freaking out when the sirens went off because of the twister that hit here in 1968. Although we didn't have any confirmed touchdowns, I heard one a few miles away. Our thoughts and prayers are with you in Parkersburg, as the residents of Charles City definitely know what you're going through.
Wow...I'm a storm/tornado chaser...and I was going to head up that way, but met the storm just east of Dubuque where it produced a tornado...not near as large though!
i know this might be mean but i laughed at 27-31 at the car with its lights blinking, again, i know some people think that might be mean and i know, so dont bother replying
I live near Des Moines and I saw footage of the destruction on Who TV 13, from the air. I cannot believe how destructive this tornado was. It totally obliterated houses, nothing left but the foundations. I was stunned and my thoughts were with those families who may have lost their loved one's lives.
I see this truck and this gas station just before the tornado. Here /watch?v=oWUdO7YjjoE
clodags2 3 months ago
i live in aplington and the tornado was horrable
carmal0480 8 months ago
parkersburg and new hartford got hit bad. i lived in new hartford when it happened. :(
xLIVExLAUGHx 10 months ago
I have a friend in p- burg
It was a sad sight People think wow it's so cool but it's the most devastating thing you will probably see in your life
Mitch95100 10 months ago
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why did the tornado level this town?
Because you touch yourself at night.
eddieisfiction 1 year ago
You don't see this kind of destruction in Phoenix, AZ where I live. Wow...It looked like they dropped an A bomb on the poor place.
hlaltimus 1 year ago
you th ink you are so cool because you live close i live in p.burg i didnt get hit but my great great aunt and uncle got hit and my uncle was found under a truck he was 87 and my aunt was safly foun=d in the basmet any way it was scary and I REALLY TULLY LIVE IN P.BURG
noramann23 1 year ago
@noramann23 U nEd 2 go bak 2 l-mentry skule & lern how 2 rite.
Sorry about your uncle.
robertgift 1 year ago
:O OMFG
noli399 1 year ago
WHAT TORNADO?
Don't know how to title a video?
What is "Kwik Star"?
So sorry for all the damage.
Hope no one was injured.
robertgift 1 year ago
@robertgift kwik star is a gas station in iowa and some other midwest states i live in iowa
ape300 1 year ago
immeohmyoh, you are a disgrace to mankind. uneducated, unintelligent waste of oxygen. people that think and speak this way have nothing to offer this world.
garnerfarmer 1 year ago 2
@garnerfarmer tell that to your government when they start cutting
funding for your agriculture, if they havnt already they will, so quit wasting your oxygen
by fueling the fire
impleasen 1 year ago
fake
RayAir1 1 year ago
@RayAir1 <---- DUMBASS
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iowa pride=iowa greed=gimmegimmegimme $ not to plant corn, $ TO plant corn, ethanol subsidies, ethanol mandates, femafemafema$please, $ 4 gay tourism, $ 4 1st nat'l primary tourism= flooding from raping the land=tornadoes from excess heat and moisture. iowa 4 iowans! hahaha lolol. iowa your responsible 4 killing your own people and you destroy the world's health and climate w/ high fructose corn syrup and corn burning. rape the land no more. sin no more. renounce greed.
immeohmyoh 2 years ago
I'm going to kill myself
pump20 2 years ago
My friend was working at that Kwik Star when the tornado went through. She said it was horrible. She said she found a woman trapped in a car but later that woman died. :(
She also said that she had this terrible nausea strike her when she went to search for her daughter. Thank God her daughter was alive!
allydrama 2 years ago
go nolez!!
ospace89 2 years ago
8-10 people died.
sunburstdj 2 years ago
i live in cc and we could hear the tornado as it was going through parkersburg it was really scary
kaitlynschweiger 2 years ago
thank god for that kwik star driver if he wouldnt have told the people in the store they all would have been dead
justin3815 2 years ago
unbelieveble, it was a monster
djcalcu 2 years ago
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They really got Owned . Justice in work. :P
Tesdeixero 2 years ago
As you all know who have lived through this horrible nightmare, that the one year anniversary of this disaster is coming upon us. The events that unfolded that day are still fresh in my mind. I remeber coming home from the store and I realized that everything just seemed strange..like the world stopped. Then I remember seeing this monster growing dark and snarling like something out of my worst nightmares. It's an experience I hope you would never have to witness.
ahoing2006 2 years ago
i was at the kwik star there that morning and there was another tornado abut 30 min. from were i was when parkersberg got hit :(
BXR265 2 years ago
3 years back there was one in parkersburg wv that went through my grand parents yard and completely launched rv's from wolf camper sales into the area.
alawoo01 2 years ago
Wow
LilMoNemo 3 years ago
NOO NO WHY NO WHY There not going to rebuild the Pizza Ranch WHYYY GOD WHY
SUSPECT29 3 years ago
i live in waverly a town somewhat close to parkersburg and we could actually HEAR the tornado it from here.
djraatzz 3 years ago
I live in Waverly, too. I agree ... we could hear this constant loud rumbling up in the clouds as they went over. It was like loud thunder that never stopped. I know people in Plainfield that said the same thing.
eloisegugenheim 3 years ago
@eloisegugenheim
Once in Texas I lived in a mobile home and in the night a tornado passed just overhead. It sucked out 2 windows. We could hear that "freight train" sound getting closer and closer for a full minute beforehand. It's a really helpless feeling. Because you know that if it hits, a mobile home is not going to offer any protection.
Txsray 10 months ago
@eloisegugenheim
Once in Texas in the middle of a dark stormy night a tornado passed just overhead. We could hear that freight train sound approaching for a full minute beforehand. Thankfully it didn't quite touch down till after it had passed us. All it did was blow out some windows of our house, but a couple hundred yards away it uprooted a big cottonwood tree and tore out a chainlink fence.
Txsray 10 months ago
I LIVE IN IOWA!! we raised money online for the schools and town there
falloutboy752 3 years ago
I was less than an hour away from that tornado. I thank the lord for letting it have dodged me, but curse nature for it's carelessness for human,plant,and animal life. Some things just aren't fair in this world, I would name that one.
flamengw0lf 3 years ago
there must many people hurt in this chaos...
pretty scar to see this...
vitalikr1981 3 years ago
O.M.G it looks Lyk an at0mic bomb blew up
garcondeplage 3 years ago
of course he did you dumbass. He does things like that for a reason.
vivalapresley 3 years ago
god didnt cause this tornado... a thunderstorm did. they are a natural occurence and have happened probably for centuries. Some areas are more prone to tornados, and again it's NATURAL
LighningMcQueen1000 3 years ago 9
God dose everything for a reason.
and like af18chic said theres a silver lining to every situation!!
bubbabr 3 years ago
God I am so lucky to live in Independence... This town has dodged so many tornados... We were right on the south edge of the storm and the sirens only when off twice... It was nice and sunny in the front of my house but in the back all you saw was black.... It was crazy..... And then it flooded... But it didnt get my house.... Thank christ
michaeljetter123 3 years ago
Well I never thought I would have posted a video about a tornado warning in my area (NJ), but I spent late this afternoon in my basement because they issued a tornado warning for the NY-NJ area. It was bad out there, intense lightning and high winds. There were hail storms all this week here, I mean it looked like winter in some areas and numerous tornado warnings in South Jersey that I hadn't even heard about it until today.
Thank the Lord it didn't happen here they way they were predicting.
ginnykaren 3 years ago
Just an update confirming what I said earlier about severe weather everywhere. There were tornado warnings this afternoon in Ct. and Long Island. I know for sure that Ct. had a very bad storm today. Something like 6 inches of rain in a couple of hours.
ginnykaren 3 years ago
God doesn't hate Iowa, or anybody. If that's the case, than God hates the whole world or else we wouldn't have natural disasters like wild fires, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and things like that, and we wouldn't have war either. Things like this happen and it's only when things like this don't happen to you is when you think it's funny to point and say things like that. I went to Parkersburg today and clean up is going well and I hope everyone who lives there keeps their heads up. :]
KittyKat12290 3 years ago
I am glad to hear that things are going well.
I have been concerned about the people there because even though this town is far from where I live it's all the same great country and EVERYONE matters whether near or far.
The weather is scary lately everywhere. I don't ever remember as many strong thunderstorms around my area of the country as we have had this summer. Summer used to be fun now almost every day holds fear.
God will bring Parkersburg and all of us through these times of trouble.
ginnykaren 3 years ago
Your right. God does hate Iowa. But, through Jesus Christ, God has redeemed Iowa, the world, and you to Him if you accept His gift of regeneration through His Son. :)
Iowa people, I feel for you and would love to help cleanup if I were within 700 miles of the state. Other end of I-70.
americansmark 3 years ago
God does not hate anyone. God loves all people even when they do not accept him. I do believe though that he creates these types of things for the better. There is always a silver lining to every situation. But as I said, God does not hate anyone no matter what sins they have committed.
af18chic 3 years ago
I am very glad to hear that the people of Parkersburg are getting the help they need.
God bless all of you and prayers for them.
This is a good thing you are doing, helping them rebuild.
ginnykaren 3 years ago
I have to say that my heart goes out to all of the residents in parkersburg Iowa. I and many others are trying to do there part in rebuilding the Kwik Trip. It is very sad to see that happen to anyone. It is a tragedy to hear that there were lives that were taken, my heart truely goes out to all of Parkersburg.
slick2244 3 years ago
God doesn't hate anyone. As truelotus108 has stated there is killer weather everywhere. I have experienced bad flooding where I live as well as very severe thunderstorms and a couple of years ago this month what the weather service described as a tree-top tornado. I firmly believe that when people make a joke out of a tragedy like this, they are really scared deep down inside and this behavior sets up a shield around that fear.
ginnykaren 3 years ago
I got an e-mail response from leebob. I had a theory that he might be young, stupid or perhaps a sociopath. He is clearly a sociopath. Just came back to clarify. He says God hates Iowa, when really God doesn't hate anyone, leebob.
No matter where you live, on the Coasts, in the Midland, there is killer weather. I actually think that leebob's only chance of getting a life is to actually experience a tragedy, that is, if he's capable of love.
Everyone dies. Period. That includes leebob.
truelotus108 3 years ago
My home was destroyed in Hugo, tornado. When I think of it, I know if it was an F5 that I would be dead, or my pets. As bad as Hugo was after a F3, I did not know, until today, looking for a photo of the Hugo, tornado that one of the 3 tornados from the same storm, was F5 and was the one in Iowa. People in the tornado world! Make a plan. Take just a few minutes. An F5, you must know. No siren? Get a tornado box. It is like a fire alarm, but when the weather service warns of tornado. Truelotus
truelotus108 3 years ago
anyone disturbed by leebob86's comments... check out his channel. it's like 90% cat videos 9% nascar and 1% whatever dumbass racist crap he could find to post. do not waste your time being upset about morons like leebob. he's going to die and become fertilizer just like the rest of us, no matter how superior he may think he is.
brie8383 3 years ago
About leebob: Some people are too young to be posting here. Some people are just stupid. Some people have no sense of conscience, and are unable to feel a sense of empathy for others. The latter are called sociopaths. Who knows or cares which of these is true of leebob. There are leaders of nations who are awfully disturbing, too! I can think of several offhand.
truelotus108 3 years ago
i was just here a few days after the tornado hit, and i saw all of the damage, and it was actually worse than what you can see on the video! most houses were completely gone, and some peoples stuff ended up all the way in wisconsin!
baileybreanna 3 years ago
No, actually, God is just trying to show america how STRONG iowa is. So yeah, he doesnt hate us, we all are pulling together
superdeeduper93 3 years ago
hell yeah!!!
literven 3 years ago
im sorry if you misunderstood my comment ,when i saw the video the scenes very terrible i got mad i felt realy sad about it and my expression that you didint understand was this one ( i dont understand why the hell they keep building houses of paper , i mean not enough strong thats why i said paper , then i said if they know that in that place theres a problem whith tornadoes , why dont they build strong houses of concrete .
narizalcanzaquesos 3 years ago
does anyone recognize the grey car sitting at the gas pump :30 sec. into the video? cuz i helped flip the car over from its side and pulled an older man out of it. no idea who it was though....
APruisBV 3 years ago
yeah i live in pburg and i was right thru the middle of it as i was in the basement of my buddies house with his parents...the house was completely gone! shit was crazy and ill never forget that night
APruisBV 3 years ago
I live 30 miles from Parkersburg and went to help the victims out.. It was the most humbling thing I have ever seen... The pure power of tornados is absolutely unreal. God have mercy on Iowa... the floods in Mason City, Clarksville, and other communities are adding more families to the list of homeless...
BrianPhase90 3 years ago
I have seen all this with my eyes...
juuuukkkkeeeerrr222 3 years ago
shit : /
greeniceq 3 years ago
damn, I hate to see all that damage!
great video!
N8tbog 3 years ago
i live about 1 hour away from here, and the winds blew pictures/watches/etc to my town from A WHOLE HOUR AWAY
kenzy67 3 years ago
How do you rebuild all of that? It's completely starting over :(
Wivanunu 3 years ago
just like florida always tends to after big hurricanes... like andrew for instance.. if there is anything worth saving it for people will overcome and find away.
levischultz 3 years ago
10 days before the tornado hit...they installed a tornado siren in the south of Parkerburg because there was only one in the north side and the south couldnt here it so they installed one before the tornado hit which saved a lot of live probaly
Murmur621 3 years ago 2
i want to live in iowa SO bad
moviemakersunited 3 years ago
what state do u live in
9lydia99 3 years ago
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it was flat.i live about 1-2 hours away and a guy that works for my dad, lives there and he told us his house was torn off the foundation.my teachers also went last sunday to help out and took pictures. it was like nothing was ever there, but had like stuff everywhere.its really horrible. and we heard a story where this guy went back to get his fone for later and completly got riped out of his house. And an old couple didnt make it because they where to old, and couldnt hurry into the basement.
imAhmazing12 3 years ago
all i have to say is one word
DAMN
JGandDX 3 years ago
i guess they should have made the town out of blue water towers
Chrenen 3 years ago
this is sad...im from cedar falls.
alohaamy1027 3 years ago
Im from Oskaloosa (aka Osky)
JGandDX 3 years ago
is that in iowa?
alohaamy1027 3 years ago
yea
buhdda 3 years ago
Nice Video. I helped cleaning in Parkersburg this weekend. What an amazing sight...
studio1102artist 3 years ago
this was added on my nieces b-day
msnickjonas101 3 years ago
I was there tonight to help feed the residents and volunteers. I have never seen anything like the total devistation in Parkersburg. The people were incredible. They were friendly and upbeat. Pray for these incredible people to help them through this struggle!
iapls17535 3 years ago
thank you for posting an actual video of the damage. I can't stand how people are putting fake stuff on here. People died and some are making fun of it. nobody watch the video from rut and strut. the church is in iowa city. once again thank you for being truthful about this horrible disaster
dudethatisawesome 3 years ago
One Iowan to another...we are tough, hard working people...im sure Pburg will be on its feet in no time. God Bless
FishinIsLife222 3 years ago
our region just went through this on mother's day - in picher, oklahoma, 6 people lost their lives to an f4 tornado. the aftermath looked just like this, basically like armageddon. really it's just a wonder that more people didn't lose their lives in either of these storms when you look at the damage.
Mudget 3 years ago
actually in new hart deer ridge is leveled south of the one road, anything north of that is mostly fine
iwin20 3 years ago
Damn...
wingzfan101 3 years ago
omG!!
Me6roL 3 years ago
damn, what the hell, this is unreal. I never seen so much destruction from a tornado before, this looks like someone dropped a bomb on the place. What the hell is wrong with our weather.
GamingPalooza 3 years ago
nothing wrong at all. Tornadoes are random and don't discriminate. It's May in the midwest, we get tornadoes.
ProfessorIgor 3 years ago 2
well i have seen many tornados, and this year is much worst then an average year. This place looks unreal, it really looks like someone dropped a bomb down on this place. This tornado of been some kind of freak tornado.
GamingPalooza 3 years ago
Nope, not a freak tornado whatsoever. A VERY strong tornado. An extremely rare EF-5 tornado, but nothing freak about it. While very, very few EF-5's occur, they can happen when the conditions are utopian as they were that day, for 3 days actually. More often than not, strong tornadoes don't hit anything, but when they do, this is the result. It's horrible, but inevitable.
ProfessorIgor 3 years ago
The big one was a mile away from my house. We had 2 on the north and south of us too. Right as it got into cedar falls we had just pulled in the driveway. We had no idea what was going on until we saw it. If it would have changed directions like it was said it was going to do our house would have been demolished!
ECSchultz09 3 years ago
i'm from iowa too, but i'm just a kid. and being just miles away from all this disatser makes me want to cry. just imagine for one second, your home which you love so much has gone to shreds along with everything you love. now put that into persective and think about it. everyone in the dister, you are in my prayers. god bless you, and we will do everything we can to help out (:
iActEC 3 years ago
im a kid too, from iowa, and it shows how much everyone cares in iowa about each other doesnt it? and even more people lost there homes this week in iowa, its very sad. :(
superdeeduper93 3 years ago
As a former Iowan (and hopefully a soon-to-be again Iowan) it really saddens me to see all of this destruction. You guys are in my prayers.
grumpybb 3 years ago
Those that have never been there. The town used to be under a nice canopy of trees.
paednoch 3 years ago
As a fellow Iowan, my heart goes out to you all in Parkersburg
clearfieldaz 3 years ago
Blessings to the people of Parkersburg.
KayakFreak 3 years ago
If any of you see a jerk trying to use this disaster to hype themselves on here, PLEASE - let the rest of us know! If we all band together, we can flood the hell out of their userpage & maybe even get them to leave youtube.
People like them P*** me off!
gdfsob 3 years ago
that sucks
69skylo69 3 years ago
look at all the damage
lemonfacerode 3 years ago
wow... i had to drive through there a day before this. And now its gone
KiwiSullivan44 3 years ago
yo no se porque putas sigen contruyendo casitas de papel si saben que ahy siempre tienen ese problema con los tornados ,mejor casas fuertes de concreto solido chales
narizalcanzaquesos 3 years ago
Money, honey. And, don't be calling these people "bitch".
Mil Gracias.
KayakFreak 3 years ago
I translated this earlier, for some reason, youtube didn't post it. Narizalcanzaquesos says: "I don't know why bitches continue building little houses of paper if they know that there will always be this problem with tornados." He goes on to say concrete houses are stronger. Perhaps youtube will put this reply up and in the correct place.
Blessings to all in Parkersburg.
~ a former Iowan
KayakFreak 3 years ago
i live in waterloo and i feel really bad for everyone in parkersburg and dunkerton.
jazzjoy19 3 years ago
The NWS has rated it EF5.
BillBrd1 3 years ago
sisi eso es el efecto invernadero derivado de una metamorfosis mal curada
vietnaVS 3 years ago
thank you for posting an actual video of the damage. I can't stand how people are putting fake stuff on here. People died and some are making fun of it. nobody watch the video from rut and strut. the church is in iowa city. once again thank you for being truthful about this horrible disaster
seth2120 3 years ago
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Is their any video on the acual tornado? i dont realy care about wreaked house footage, yeah it sucks ass for them but i want to see the tornado.
bignarant 3 years ago
My sister lives in Parkersburg, her house was saved. She said she could hear the tornado, it passed only a block from her house. Please pray for all the families who have suffered.
throwitdeep7 3 years ago
a common occurence in Oklahoma... gives me bad memories...
Cat
Oklahoma
KriSpyFriEdDrAmA 3 years ago
I started crying when my brother called me about an hour after the storm-he was walking through town trying to help. My parents live about 7 minutes south in Stout-I moved up to WI. I'm so shocked! And I went to Jr. High in New Hartford! ClintB how are you?
hillasp 3 years ago
I've been busy trying to get things back together, most of the wreck is cleaned up in New Hartford, over 13 farms outside of town (including my supervisors house) are gone and all of Deer Ridge is leveled. I flew out to my Buddy Sean's house ten minutes after the storm cleared so I could make sure he was still alive, I drove by the cemetery and it looked like a nuke went off. The next day I hadta sneak into parkersburg and I about fainted, I'm still having troubles believing its Parkersburg
clintb182 3 years ago
very sad
honenygirl 3 years ago
this was an immense tornado. The damage path looks to be over a mile wide. I would put it an an EF-4... most of the damage you see is EF-3, but there are some strong framed houses that are totally obliviated with no interior walls remaining upright. This has been a BUSY week.
ProfessorIgor 3 years ago
It was actually rated an EF5.
dragonridley 3 years ago
I know. I made this statement the following day when seeing this video for the first time. In THIS particulat video, there is not EF-5 damage. But it obviously did do a small amount of EF-5 damage and therefore was correctly rated an EF-5 tornado. The footage from the bank is incredible. Never before has footage of an EF4-5 tornado been seen that close up. Especially as it dismantles a structure.
ProfessorIgor 3 years ago
That is probably partiall because it would be so hard for the footage to survive such a tornado.
dragonridley 3 years ago
And they still using wood to build the houses...
carrilbici 3 years ago
This is scary, looks stronger than the majority of the hurricanes...
RealtorMiami 3 years ago
I live in New Hartfofrd, 7 miles from parkersburg, It's way worse than any of the videos could ever show. Everything is just wiped off the map. I've been living in this area my whole life and I couldn't recognize any of it.
clintb182 3 years ago
I WAS THERE
ShaylerN92 3 years ago
O MY GOD
roberts9313 3 years ago
My thoughts and prayers are with you . from shell rock ia. sorry for your town and lives lost.
PoopsMcGeeJr 3 years ago
DAMN!!!! You know it was bad when a big rig looks like Godzilla used it as a chew toy! :O
A good reason why you should never underestimate the weather!
gdfsob 3 years ago
I heard that most of the people who were killed in these storms were in their basements,and houses collapsed on them.Need to probably come up with some other means to lay a foundation over a basement in Tornado areas,sincere thoughts and prayers,May the Lord Jesus Christ,comfort the hearts of those there,Glory to God.
ShannonCole888 3 years ago
OUCH!
trentsnpr 3 years ago
My thoughts in prayers are with you from Boone, Iowa. I was so nervous because some family was heading back home to waterloo and they called and told me when they got home the sky was pitch black.
Dnzmn 3 years ago
Thoughts from Toledo! I was up and chased this storm from the Waterloo Airport east. The damage path got so bad I couldn't go any farther. I'm a police officer so I ended up joining house searches with an off duty BlackHawk county deputy for a couple hours before i headed back home. I'm going back to Parkersburg today to volunteer, it looks so horrible :(
uncleben03 3 years ago
I guess there was mail found up in Wisconsin that had a Parkersburg address on it
clintb182 3 years ago
Yeah I was around the area today too and I couldn't recognize it either. I live in Waterloo but am originally from Iowa Falls. When I was in high school some friends and I always used to go to Kwik Star in town to get those huge Mega Buddies fountain drinks because they didnt have them in IF.
Even to this day my wife and I drive thru Parkersburg to visit my family in Iowa Falls. Something different than HWY 20 you know. Our prayers go out to everyone in the area.
reingardl 3 years ago
That is true my family found an invoice for tires in there lawn from Parkersberg although there was no name of who it belonged to. my family lives in Elkader Ia. That is over 70 miles, how crazy is that!!!!!
skipdownstairs 3 years ago
This is just so sad. I never lived in Parkersburg, but it's has many memories of me traveling through it between Iowa City and Minneapolis. No more gas station or ice cream stops...
RandomBriBri 3 years ago
I just moved to Charles city, about 3 months ago. People here were freaking out when the sirens went off because of the twister that hit here in 1968. Although we didn't have any confirmed touchdowns, I heard one a few miles away. Our thoughts and prayers are with you in Parkersburg, as the residents of Charles City definitely know what you're going through.
zagnut48219 3 years ago
God bless the people of Parkersburg Iowa from Parkersburg WEst Virginia!
padude64 3 years ago
thoughts and prayers from pennsylvania
itsmesean 3 years ago
My thoughts and prayers with you!
Jon T from Cedar Rapids, IA
dubuque76 3 years ago
You're in our prayers and thoughts from Marion, Iowa!
ji61m 3 years ago
Wow...I'm a storm/tornado chaser...and I was going to head up that way, but met the storm just east of Dubuque where it produced a tornado...not near as large though!
kensethfaniniowa 3 years ago
Prayers and thoughts from Cedar Rapids, Iowa sticks together in times like these
0990jordan 3 years ago
This is simply unbelievable. My thoughts and prayers from Iowa City.
Cheers
richprince78 3 years ago
i know this might be mean but i laughed at 27-31 at the car with its lights blinking, again, i know some people think that might be mean and i know, so dont bother replying
jakubandmatt 3 years ago
I live near Des Moines and I saw footage of the destruction on Who TV 13, from the air. I cannot believe how destructive this tornado was. It totally obliterated houses, nothing left but the foundations. I was stunned and my thoughts were with those families who may have lost their loved one's lives.
frow9405 3 years ago
WOW GOOD BLESS U
582632746 3 years ago
I hope those new house developments have basements. what was that building steel structure a gas station?......
flir67 3 years ago
Yeah, that steel structure was a gas station. The framework above the gas pumps that held the canopy or whatever you want to call it.
tgritt 3 years ago
My prayers go out to all involved in Sundays tornado.
momotous 3 years ago 2