Plainfield IL Tornado 1990 : Route 126

[infonator100]

its not my fault you got beasted by a tornado XD

[infonator100]

this is stupid

[0509Dylan]

my dad was right in front of the tornado when it was an f-5. He said he was a high school football field away from it

[ShiftedIrony]

wow... you can see where my subdivision would be in this video... damn

[mfluke44]

missed it by 30 min after traffic court in joliet...got hit by hail near nap/plain rd at 111th st..drove down to look myselfnext day and was shocked..church and school GONE!..a friend living nearby got debris in his yard..crazy day

[indyfan22k]

I wonder what type of car he is in.

[evilfreddy2006]

If you see plainfield today you would never imagine that a huge tornado hit it 20 years ago. I rememeber the seeing the highschool just torn down.

[mypalrocco]

20 motherfucking years ago...I remember that motherfucking shit!

[KTHrocks]

omg :O

i live in oaklawn,IL

[coryboy345]

Amazing how much this looks NOTHING like plainfield now. I didn't recognize anything off 126 there.

[misschic007]

@coryboy345 i know, right? it's changed so much.

[m0j0rizing]

I was camping at the pure rod and gun club on 126 that day we had just left town for home around 1:00 pm because the weather man said rain was coming and we didn't want the canvas in the trailer to get wet.. i guess a wet trailer was least of our worries that day

[jamesemtb]

that was a bad day i will never forget it. i was going to afriends house who lived by the high school and saw the black and green clouds and decided to go back home good thing we did

[stmays20]

I was four when this happened. My family and I were on our way home from the big city because I had an appointment prior to a surgery. This event scarred so much of my life, I've just recently been able to start finding information on what happened.

[carrie1677]

lived on Mallard Dr when this hit... I'll never forget it. thanks for posting

[joedog929]

i live by just off of bronk

[HyperFoxTails]

Man, January 2008 was a Month fulled with tornadoes, in ILL and all the way up to WI.

[GoBears96]

ive lived in plainfield for 15 or 16 years and i cant believe how much it has changed

[IAMSHUGO]

haha.. my family lived in Plainfield when that happened, and the tornado only missed us by a block. I was a month from being born, so I survived a tornado before I was born xD;

And here I am in North Carolina, age 18. Weird how life happens. God is good.

[IMusic5300]

wow i moved 2 plainfield 3 years ago n it looks nothin like it looked 18 years ago

[OmNixJ]

i know right...

the trees look so short..

[U2CollectiveSoul]

Link Ln

[U2CollectiveSoul]

My aunt, uncle, and cousins were in this, they live off Lily Cache. Most of the homes on their street were destroyed but they only had pieces of wood stuck in their house. My uncle saw a storm wall and the sky was green and black so they decided to get in the basement. They heard a really loud freight train noise. He and my aunt happened to both take the day off, luckily they got my cousins in and downstairs. They said most of their neighbors weren't home, luckily.

[seasonx3PASSES]

do they live on feeney road? thats where i live.

[R2PKompressoR]

if that tornado had not done any of that, plainfield would not be what it is today...that place was a slum and now its one of the nicest areas around! i remember watching that tornado from my aunts back porch and was just amazed at the power of it

[FourLeafFarm]

Plainfield was nowhere NEAR a slum in 1990. It was a wonderful small, quiet town.

[danpeezie]

i remember driving on that road after that. Really strange...looked normal, then just a flattened area about 500 yards wide, then normal again.

[drumndan1]

yeai remember that 2

[MTrace412]

I live in plainfield i go on that road all the time. lol

[Heyde1979]

very violent tornado