Rescue 911 - Episode 209 - "Tornado Trap" (Part 2 of 2)

[baldbrad]

"we had strictly unit-to-unit communications, that's it". This is why counties need a backup repeater located somewhere else, and most counties don't understand this. When the repeater goes down, you are severely limited on range. Sometimes the dispatcher can't even talk to units in the field without the repeater, depending on how the system was set up.

[smule1985]

it says harrison on there uniforms which is where my mother used to live, right next to chattanooga

[wadetimebaby]

Thank god weve never had one

[itsjustme2919]

Hey! I live in Hamilton County Ohio! This is like 20 minutes from where I live! if even that far

[mollysheartbeat]

My daughter died in the greensburg, kansas tornado. I love you molly. I created this youtube account so I could see movies, and share my story. I love you please, and I will continue to pray for you. Rest in Peace.

[steph66002]

i live in kansas and the worst storm we had so far is the greensburg tornado that wiped out the whole town

[ericandreas1992]

did rescue 911 ever make it on dvd?.

[xbox360123cod4]

my b-day!

[fairy20tails]

amazing that the tiny kitchen table held up enough to protect them : )

[jashea9794]

rob haynes is my father

[LeoFan93]

0:13 a real life peggy hill?

[kingelvis24]

kind of... i guees?

[ILovestorms]

There was a tornado last night in Mena, Arkansas, 3 fatalities and today southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, 2 fatalities.

[Bandos624]

7:32

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave..... THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE!!!

[metaridleyfan2]

tornado's are fun... i once went through one and i was laughing my head off since it was so radical!

[steph66002]

always keep a thick comforter with u it can help u from getting cut by glass

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

"Several Hawses Levawled...Hi Propertah Damnage" 1:21

"A Possible Hawse" 2:36

Sorry i could not resist. it seems Tornadoes always strike were Southern Midland Speakers live and very rare they hit Places were New York City speaking people live.

[jamin108]

DAM im glad i live in Massachusetts this way to scary

[ILovestorms]

Massachusetts in not immune. June 9, 1953, an F4 cut a 46-mile path in the Worcester area. 90 fatalities.

[Bucket996]

I was 8 yrs old in 1992 and was in the Fallout shelter in my grandparents basement, when their house was leveled by an F4 tornado. The tornado was 1 mile wide and moved at 10mph, it was on top of us for nearly 5 minutes. The longest 5 minutes of my life, nothing to this date has ever compared to the horror and fear of the sounds and the destruction of that day. The oddest thing was emerging from the basement, and the 2 story house and 11 farm buildings were all gone. My dad was the 1st one there

[gregersen80015]

UNDER THE TABLE? Could you be anymore stupid? Find a closet or a bathroom!

[UZZAGENTHOPE17]

I HATE THOSE THINGS THEY ARE DANGEROUS and Tornado is a word that goes against me for all my life.

[abagayle11]

Have you ever been in one?

[tookietookie123]

Yes... And its not pretty!

[ILovestorms]

But you survived it.

[Moneyme25]

UZZAGENTHOPE17, I feel your pain!!! I have the same problem ever since my parents COMPLETLEY FREAKED OUT when it looked like a (i hate this word) Tornado almost hit. It's scared me ever since.

[snakes3425]

I know the feeling, the very thought of a Tornado has made me terrified of any type of Thunderstorm

[FrankIeroRoxMiSox]

thank god i live in connecticut and we do not get tornados only twisters but there just liek fast wind and the worst damage they have done is nock down some trees near the walmart like 20 minutes away from my house nd i live right across the street from a beach and we have had floods but yeah we havnt had anything bad to the point were we had to take cover

[itzamejason]

A tornado and a twister are the samething.

[DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3]

Umm...tornadoes and twisters are the same thing. How can you say you dont get one but you do get the other? :)

[silverelf666]

thankfully not all of us from CT are idiots.

[mindajane]

I live in the Texas Panhandle. During spring we spend nearly everyday under tornado watch. My town was hit by an F4 back in 1995. I was out of town but when I came home just over a week later the damage was still very apparent.

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

why did Rescue 911 do a Tornado episode in Ohio? the show makes it sound like Ohio is Tornado Alley when really Ohio gets the same amount Tornadoes per square mile as Virgina, Maryland, Pennslyvania, and parts of New York state (1-2 twisters per square mile each year). and also people need to be aware that Tornadoes in Virgina, Maryland, Pennslyvania, and parts of New York state ARE NOT RARE...In fact they are quite common.

[gregorkrause]

I think to show how far rescuers go to rescue people and teach people what to do in a tornado.

[guardiangirl777]

When you live in an area where Tornado Watches and Tornado Warnings occur almost every time there is a patch of severe thunderstorms that spring up, you don't tend to take the watches or warnings seriously until the Emergency Alert System takes over your T.V. screen and radio channels telling you there is indeed a tornado heading straight towards you. This is because the Watches and Warnings are issued very frequently (don't get me wrong, better safe than sorry) and usually nothing comes of it.

[gregersen80015]

under the table?! they must have watched a little too much wizard of oz hoping the house would sail. if they were any smarter, they would have gone to a closet.

[MJSOULBROTHER1]

yeah but they had no basement

[ILovestorms]

They didn't have time. Long before a tornado hit, every family should have a plan and place in the home to go when a warning is issued. A small room, bathroom, closet or hallway in the middle of the house, if the house doesn't have a basement. Put as many walls between you and the outside as possible.

[angeljapan]

They had no time.

[wilkes85]

We had a tornado about 12 years ago, and ever since then, I'm always glued to the weather channel every time the weather would get bad.

[ILovestorms]

Doesn't the man in the glasses scare you, Dr. Greg Forbes? What about Jim Cantore?

[LensCapProductions]

What about Jim Cantore? He pisses me off.

[graywolf7]

Yeah, there was a straight-line wind where I live 10 years ago. The ceiling over the kitchen caved in and our garage was completely destroyed. Fortunatly our house had insurance. That storm scarred me for life. Whenever there is bad weather in the area, I get really nervous.

[sport1mandi]

isn't the safest thing to do when u hav no basement is to get in the bathtub, with a matress over you.

[slmcgowan2003]

under the table? Safest place to be in a home without a basement is in the bathroom ( inside the bathtub ) or an interior hallway. With your head between you legs and your body covered with a blanket.

[star30032]

well considering that they opened the door...they don't appear to be very tornado-wise...

[foreverhulkamania]

f3 probably

[snakes3425]

F4 to be exact

[itsalleternal]

Yep, this one was an F4 (although the house appeared to have F3 damage).

[ILovestorms]

Correct. F4. That is what it says on the tornado project's web site. The tornado project is the company that has the thick book, "Significant Tornadoes".

[DeerHunting2008]

weather radios save lives

[mrsshonio24]

that's why i went out and bought a weather radio. It alerts me everytime there is bad weather. I still watch the sky though cause sometimes a weather radio isn't gonna help, and i live in Southeast Tennessee not too far from GA.

[ILovestorms]

Southeast Tennessee? Chattanooga area?

[MileysUpdater]

the place where i live doesnt have tornadoes...at least thats what i think

[laurenR13]

where do you live

[MileysUpdater]

californiA

[piper54409]

In our town we help out in times like this we are weather spoters for noaa weather. And we also help the police fire rescue pass trafic we are ham oparaters. I love to help people out in times like this.

[Powerjohn110]

one time in southbend in 10/24/2001

is was a toranado on the gouned but is still very very quict in my yard

[southpark99999]

one person died in my town and it turned out to be my bus drivers wife

[stormchaser3751]

Man, this twister sounded like a freight train or a pack of wild horses.

[vigilante11485]

I'm from Western PA and I've seen a few very small twisters that caused no damage. In '85 an F4 crossed the stateline from northeast Ohio into my county, and was a real detriment, although it's one of very few F4 or higher to hit the state in history.

[itsalleternal]

That one was actually an F5.

[ILovestorms]

Vigilante11485 is talking about the one that struck Niles, Ohio and Hermitage and Wheatland, Pennsylvania.

[vigilante11485]

Right. It also had enough power to climb a steep, rocky hill along the Beaver river, where it took out a drive-in theatre just out the road from where I live. The drive-in site is now used for a flea market.

[allgood2000]

She just thought it was a severe thunderstorm.

[itsalleternal]

Also they didn't have nearly as much technology back in 1990 (far less Doppler radar capabilities, no Internet, fewer sirens), and warnings were somewhat harder to get out. Even though there were dozens of other tornadoes earlier that afternoon and evening farther west (and probably a PDS Tornado Watch was out at that point - PDS meaning Particularly Dangerous Situation), they may not have known about them.

[crazyman7000]

at my school i dont even know where to go for a tornado.

[chrisgast]

Well, then find out. It might save your life and others'.

[itsalleternal]

Learn from what happened in Enterprise, Alabama about 10 months ago...

[ganeshkali]

Why don't you yanks ever learn your lessons.

Tornado's destroy wooden structures and folks loose their lives. So rather than rebuilding again with wood, for F***'s sake build in brick and concrete so the next tornado does not tear it apart and kill or injure the folks inside.

[mrke8ting]

scary stuff, everyone should have storm shelters built on there properties.

[carrierox1031]

i live in new york and my school does tornado drills. its always good to be safe!

[lizzykat2]

If I was a sleep my mom would say Elizabeth Wake up there's a tornado come on get up

then I would get up and stay in my closet

[lizzykat2]

I rather stay home if there's a tornado

[gregorkrause]

Governor Engler decided that all michigan schools conduct tornado drills, I believe this started in 1999 because I had one then when I was a freshman in highschool.

[lizzykat2]

It's a good idea to have tornado drills

Cause I had tornado drills too in high school

too in 2002 to 2006 I graduated in 2006

Now that I'm in college we have tornado drills

[ILovestorms]

The Cincinatti area has had its share of tornadoes over the years. April 3, 1974, the same day as Xenia, June 2-3, 1990, April 8-9, 1999, Blue Ash and Montgomery.

[NDW85]

Could you put the 3rd segment from this episode called Alligator Alley where a woman goes into labor at a gas station in the Everglades, if you have that one?

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[MISSPLAYBOYBUNNY]

oh wow

[itsalleternal]

That house appeared to have F3 damage as some walls were still standing. The whole track was about 25 miles long through four counties and was an F4. No one died from that tornado, although 10 people died to the west (mostly in Indiana) from other tornadoes that day (there were over 80).

[Maryanne247]

I lived in Michigan for a year and not once saw a tornado though a few times one came really close like a county over and that was so creepy. At school we had the tornado drills at least once a month it was dissapointing though I thought their would be more action. They didn't even do the sirens.

[gregorkrause]

What does the initials for the other fire dept besides Harrison stand for I mean the WTFD

[Maryanne247]

I think it is the county. Cause here it is the YCFD and that is the county fire district.

[slmcgowan2003]

It might be the Washington Township Fire Department

[LcJetskigirl02]

whitewater township fire dept

[gregorkrause]

Did you know that Michigan is now required to have schools to conduct Severe weather drills.

[KrystalFrizz]

I'm really surprised that they weren't already required to...?

[chrisz71]

Yeah, that suprises me- when I was in elementary school and middle school, we had the drills all the time- not so much at my high school, but we actually DID have to take cover once for a tornado that had winds of 50 MPH (we found out later- for all we knew, it was an F5) on the other side of the county- at LEAST 45 minutes away!!

[allgood2000]

I went to two different elementary schools in the same country of a mountainous Virginia area, and one of them did tornado drills while the other one did not. I thought that was kind of strange. Tornadoes are pretty rare around my hometown, but I suppose it's always good to be prepared.

[KrystalFrizz]

I live in Canada - at the northern most section of tornado alley, we've never had a tornado here in Calgary, but Edmonton, which is 150 miles north of here, was struck by an F4 tornado. Otherwise they are usually weak - and Michigan would get more than we do - yet even 20 years ago when I was in Elementary school, we did them..

[NDW85]

Yeah, I live in Southern Illinois. We have had a couple of tornado watches and I remember in April of 1996 when a tornado hit a city that was near my hometown.

[snakes3425]

The Tornado was offically EF4

[chrisz71]

Technically, it would be an F-4, as the new Fujita scale didn't go into effect until Feb. 1 of this year.

[KrystalFrizz]

Yay! Somebody else mentioned this! I was going to, but every time I do things like that I get the "F*ck You" response..

[chrisz71]

I hate it when that happens... I know what you mean, I figured that I'd get the same response!

[CRAZYTRAE]

This reminds me of the tornado that hit my area summer of 2004. It wasn't as bad as this, but it did shake some people up.