Tornado in Big Stone Gap, Virginia

[TheHunnybunny98]

so it tips over a tree but the slide remains untouched thats weird... and it crushes the hot car but leaves the ugly one alone. thats fucked up.

[mirapaigew]

Ummmmmm.... The picture at the beginning of this video (the field) is my photo...................

[mirapaigew]

Where did you take the photo from?

[pennilesshippo]

not even the tornado footage can do justice to the drama of this powerful and moving song

[rattielover87]

Omg, this isn't far from where I live.

[SasukeCaramelldansen]

My old house, it's still standing, so's my mamaw's house. I'm so happy that both of them are standing! And they're really old too! I was at Powell Valley Primary After School Program when this happened. Good thing that school is stable!

[MichaelDiscusses]

i live in coeburn, va. the time this happened i was living in lee county. my mother's worked in wise co for the past 5 years. she has to drive though big stone to get home. on the day this happened, she got stuck in traffic in norton. if she would have left any earlier she would have drove straight into it. this reminds us tornado are possible ANYWHERE.. nobody is safe from them. no state, town or city. remember that! don't think they can't never happen to you because they can, no matter what.

[coltinabox97]

2:32 i love that tree in the park now its gone

[SasukeCaramelldansen]

@coltinabox97 Yeah so's the KFC sign at 1:49 and they still haven't fixed it.

[coltinabox97]

yea i can see those mountains from my house

[ddog6400]

that first pic is cris fralys house

[ddog6400]

i was as my house on the farm trying 2 feed the cows in the valley all we got was real bad win and heavy rain

[dakotakaren]

i had a basketball game at carns gym that day i got down there and it didnt have a roof

[dragonridley]

Unless that wasn't a well built house at 2:10 I'd say it was more of an EF3 than an EF1.

[coltinabox97]

it was a trailer of course i tear it to shreds your from the north right i can under stand that

[dragonridley]

@coltinabox97

If it was a trailer then that would by typical EF1 damage. And yes, I am from the north but I have studied the EF scale and we do get tornadoes on occasion.

[coltinabox97]

@dragonridley and your surrounded by hundreds of trailers that get wiped out on a daily basis?

[dragonridley]

@coltinabox97

No, we average only one tornado every 3 years in my county, though this year has been more active. But I have studied the degrees of damage for the Enhanced Fujita scale and that damage to a trailer would normally result from EF1 winds.

[coltinabox97]

same here did you see the mountains?

[dragonridley]

@coltinabox97

Mountains?

[coltinabox97]

in our general area were one of the highest elevation points...

[dragonridley]

@coltinabox97

Yeah.

It may seem odd to some, but when tornadoes to occur around where I am they usually happen in the hills

[dakotakaren]

i was on the other side of town and i had a pool table on my porch and it flew out in the road

[PooPoo2U]

proof that God is not a powell valley fan!

[djtrumpet11]

Moron. Leave high school sports out of this. As a PV graduate though, I could argue that God has been a PV fan. 8 football state trophies in a 16 year period from 82-98.

[PooPoo2U]

yea, and appalachia has 6 including back to back in 96 and 97, despite vastly lower financial and physical resources. we played in practice jerseys and still won state

[alexis96dylan]

2:14 was my friend's house.........it was sooooo sad

[shelleyhaley]

At 1:50 some of the remainders of that sign ended up in my grandmothers yard

[PooPoo2U]

i still have the colonel's mustache

[gystracing]

This tornado was obviously underrated. In my opinion, it was most likely an F3 tornado.

[countrygirl96212]

i live there i was with my mom in her car and the car started shaking and real real hard rain my mom said is a tornado happening while it happened i was in walmart and i heard people yelling tornado!

i was scared to death

[ChrisBrownLover1897]

my grandmother died march 4 of 2008 the same day this happend but she did died from this i feel so bad for u guys =*(

[justkiddin08]

f5 would leave nothing at all. wow this has been a crazy mnth with this weather.

[eliza44]

OMG!!! If that's an f1 tornado, then i'de hate to see what an f5 would do!