Springfield, IL March 12, Tornadoes

[MsJudypudy]

hi. im 12 years old and i was in that tornado. it went right over my house.also my dad was driving home from work that night,im glad he survived.

[FriqqenNinjahh]

omg , i was in my basement crying hard as ever ! . . .

[cuzinz4eve]

Dude i was relluie rellie scared :O

[DemSelLOL]

o my god. It looks horrible. It is way beautiful now..

[bennybob7556]

OMG I LIVE HERE

[ALIheartsvolleyball7]

@bennybob7556 me too!!!!!

[cleach1701hotmail]

@ALIheartsvolleyball7 Me 3!!!!!!!

[webkinzlover2299]

that was my first tornado

[webkinzlover2299]

that was my first tornado ever and it was so sad my moms friend lost her house

[cheezebs]

The tornado got real close to my grandparent's lake house and tore up the yard and the dock, and across the lake is a small island that had trees that were all uprooted from the tornado.

[TaylerKnox]

I'm sharing you video on my Facebook wall. Thanks for posting it. What an incredible time that was. I live in Jerome, and you have many scenes from Jerome in this video. We were very fortunate, but everyone knows how close we came to destruction. Just another ten or twenty miles per hour, and there wouldn't have been much to film which would be standing.

[damirgraffiti]

that was crazy that the tornado touched down in Springfield!

[SparkleRoo]

that was crazy! i was really sad that lauterbach man lost his head...

[Boredomismyspecialty]

Yeah you gotta luv springfield... high crime rates, filthy water in the lake o yeah we rock.

[Zacwifey]

Springfield, EVERYONE SURVIVED THIS. i love us. we are so strong, it took about a year and a half to clean up. everyone is so family like in springfield. like no other city.

i will never forget this incredible horrible night.

[badcookerme]

thanks for this video. It's a day no one in Springfield will forget! We were without power for six days. It was almost impossible to find lamp oil, or to get a hotel room!

[2009Itzy]

One of the tornadoes hit on 5th or 6th street on Ash. I live a block or two where it hit. Our house was shaking. But Thank God nothing happened to it. This was my very First Tornado too. Never seen one except in the movies.

[SharksRule567]

my friend lives there, i wont say who though, and jerome got completely destroyed, and it was really close to her house, that dude, his head got messed up.

[motormouthindustries]

ugh I remember this. I was in springfield when it happened i remember seeing this my dad was out and we were so scared he was gonna get hurt he was on the road and outrun it. I remember coming out and all the people were gathered around a tree that had fallen on the driveway. I had a radio and we heard another one was coming. So freaky.

[msgatorgirl75]

that was the worst night of my life

[shadow313100]

oh my god i live there

[VeteranOfHell]

march 13th i drove through springfield and powerlines everywhere houses torn up, walmart had no roof...and poor lauterback man lost his head. tornadoes almost came to where i live

[kaandogan12]

i got hit we had to get a new house i lived in sangoman county i lost my sister

[camaron2one7]

i remembered this when i lived in springfield i was so scared

[ScouterUSA]

i lived in mill creek and i thought it would just be another tornado but when then radio said it was coming down archer elevator i saw my mom start praying and knew that this was really serious.

[ScouterUSA]

so erie cause i know were most of these are.

[barbarian910]

happened on my birthday.

[ScouterUSA]

omg! same with me! we were under our stairs and my uncle comes down and says happy birthday pat hears your present. (got a hat)

[barbarian910]

heres something else, i actually live in springfield. shit did that day suck

[FeuerEngelxSSx]

I loved that guy with the axe I was soo mad when I saw what happened to him. But really this was probably the worst night of my life it seemed like it would never end, all I remember is the sirens...I would try to sleep but they would always come on and I would rush to the bathroom with my family it was truly a horrid night.

[ThyGuy]

The second tornado hit the capital group building next to Iles park, literally two blocks from our house. My brother in law is insane and stayed upstairs and watched it.

[SharksRule567]

@ThyGuy, my parents are like that too, they stay upstairs and watch the weather and act like nothing is happening, whereas i gather all my favorite belongs, and drag my dog down to the basement and sit a corner and wait. it comes with living in the midwest area.

[millersxtremedepot]

I repaired 463 roofs there after that happened, it was a mess and a miracle noone was seriously hurt!!

[derdisis1]

Remember when this happened, didn't get hit but a lot of people around me did.

[tarheelsfan2355]

I remember that. My friends house was destroyed and part of my roof was too

[jdelao79]

Ill never forget that day!!!

[DTFrostbite]

:( that was a sad day. I hear they were first spotted near the water park.

[beforeva12]

that day was soo scary and even tho it was over 3 years ago ill always remember it...i wasnt one of the people who got hit but i was pretty darn close! and im so sorry to all of the people who go hit...i hope ur lives r better now:)

[Secret2Productions]

this brings back haunting memories of that day

[Secret2Productions]

i live in auburn and i remember that nite. i slept in the bathroom cuze i was so scared. and poor tire mans head...we got lots of damage in auburn and ever since then, when we get a tornado watch, i run with everything in hand into my bathroom

[TheWillster14]

too bad they didnt reopen dameons grill that place was awesome

[TheWillster14]

after the first 1 pasted, we walked outside but didnt know about the 2 one until like 2 min b4 it passed. i also thought the lumberjack guy was hilarious!

[AnimePeopleAwesome]

I was there when it happend! i was soo freaken scared! ok, so we were eaten diner when we herd da sirens! we took our xat downstairs with us for about 2 hours. then when it was done, our basement flooded, and the porch was ruined! it was scary! o_O

[tonyromo213]

I got my arm broken cause of this

[Katarawatertriber]

I remember that! I don't live in Springfield. I live in Pleasant Plains. Anyway, me, my sister, and my dad were driving around looking at the damage the next day. Our power was out so we stayed with my grandpa because hge had power. Weird thing is, he lives in Springfeild right off of Old Jacksonville. My mom was at work when it happened. When she came home 2 of the windows in our van were shattered and my mom was crying.

[kingshky24]

i was on my way back from a hockey game in missori, and coming into springfield look like a bomb and been dropped

[iluvpkmn1]

OMG....i remember this day! i was asleep when the sirens went off, my dad came to wake me and my sis up and he took us to the living room, unfortionatly(sp) we didnt have a basement, so we had to go to our cousins house which was like a block away, and we stayed there in the basement until the tornado was gone. i lived on Monroe street when it happened, now i live in 10th street which is far more close to where the tornado stricked. ._.

[dustystix76]

that's a helluva lot of damage for an EF2

[khalilasbro]

lol springfield looked like this b4 the tornado...the tornado just gives us an excuse for why springfield is becoming the most boring dump on the planet...

[daFrimpster]

My house is in this vid right afterth e lauterbach's guy. It seems like eons ago that all happened

[wacckyfilms]

yeah i remeber when it was over the skys were really black i could barely see

[SBara14]

Oh, man. That night was a long night for me. We lost power and we couldn't hear the sirens going off during the night because ours was damaged. I stayed up the entire night. It was definitely rough.

I live on the south side, by the way. Real close to Jerome.

[pgdevil]

0:45

[BluesHockeyKid]

My mom's best friend and her husband own Tuffy out on Wabash. That place got torn apart. We worked over 3 months putting it back together. Thanks to everyone who helped rebuild after this disaster.

[booyahaaboys2453]

why is this filmed almost all on the west side

[thirtytwoproductions]

Because that's where I was driving that day.

[wacckyfilms]

good point

[Delinvia]

@booyahaaboys2453 right.....most of the damages was on the southeast side

[dlr1213]

I remember that car shop guy, even when i Was a kid he stood there.  That's hilarious that he lost his head. :D:D:D:D:D LMAO! I now live in Missouri, but I lived in Springfield when I was a kid.

[TruSpecies]

i feel bad for jerome theyre whole houses got destroyed in montvale where i live i only lost a gutter but one street over in colont west trees wrecked ppls houses cuz they all fell on top of their house street poles and lights and powerlines were oon ppls houses couldnt go down wabash cuz of that big ass light pole in the road

[jonasbroz95]

ouch i remember that one. we didnt have school the next day. we were coming back from champaign and we drove right in to the storm. it was not good

[vampyfan2]

I remember that. We came to springfield the day after it happened (i live about 45 minutes away from springfield) and the part we saw didnt seem that bad. The Best Buy sign was gone, and i guess the roof in Wal-Mart collapsed in, and i remember over by Best Buy with the huge power poles only being help up by other powerlines hanging over the road; that part was creepy thinking that a huge powerpole could fall at any moment into the busy street.

[Yzushinaze]

yah the car shop's guy lost his head. lady got it back :/ when that happened my family was devistated

[xoxohezxo92]

yeah, i was there when it happened

and it was bad, but hey! we missed school :]]

[rmyers30]

it was really weird...to see the damage in person...and when it happened there wasnt any snow on the ground...but like a week later an ice storm struck or snow...but it was just strange

[stlouis54252]

my dad lived over on east cedar luckily his house didnt get damaged but it was still all around his house

[maddiejonas411]

it wasnt that bad i mean yeah it was pertty bad and all but u dont need the dramatic musicc.. it makes it more dramatic than it was i mean my mom went to work the next dayyy i remember it i went to my moms friends house and everything it was alll bad but the music is just.. ahhh. ooh well it is a cool vid. ooh yea i forgot the headless lumberjack ahahaha that was funny i drove by it and i cracked up!

[DeadToFall92]

what does it mean when its a EF2 tornado? and by the way..... 0:45 is my aunts house lol

[thefrozenegg]

I remember that. It wasn't that bad. I mean, sure, it sucked, we missed school for about a week, and lol to the headless lumberjack. Lol, everything was like, totally destroyed! I remember it extremely well now! I totally for got about it until now. ll . But honestly, it was no laughing matter.

[Minorthreatislife]

Yeah, no kidding. I was at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville when the storms hit in Springfield.  I remeber calling my folks to tell them I was alright since down by where I was we had really bad storms and we had to take refuge on the ground floor of my dorm.

[Aayla21]

I remember when that happend. It's kinda surreal to have something like that hit so close to home.