Topeka Kansas Tornado

[TarinBardsley]

idiot dakokid.

[dakokid]

White trash music? You have Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers blaring in your background slut

[TheRadicalreels]

I was almost six when this hit! Missed us by one block too.

[RFDbehindme]

I just finished the book "and Hell Followed With It" which was all about this Topeka tornado... it mentions this footage a lot. Thanks for sharing!! and FYI, the music is from the closing credits of Twister... quite appropriate to me!

[reymatt76]

I could've done without the white trash death rock instrumental ballad, completely inappropriate for the footage and the era, but good video.

[RFDbehindme]

@reymatt76 actually, the music is from the closing credits of Twister... somewhat appropriate! lol

[reymatt76]

@RFDbehindme oh then in that case, I should really be taking my complaint to the Twister producers. I guess I'm about 15 years too late for that one!

[SubTerraMetalFencer]

It's hot in Topeka

[funmover2006]

I was right in the middle of it. My senior year, house we were in was tore all to he**.

We were in the area that is shown about the 3 minute mark into the video. Below Burnett's mound just past Gage st and 30th st

[bforrestb3]

I lived in Topeka when this tonado hit,I was in the 2nd grade,my mother was in the hospital giving birth to my youngest brother that day,and will never forget the massive destruction,it actually hit the capitol building and blew a chunk of the dome off,it missed our house by about 4 blocks,but we actually saw the tornado,and ran to a basement.

[donco6]

I lived in Wamego at the time, and remember the storm moving through before it hit Topeka. The sky was greenish-yellow and the clouds were moving faster than I'd ever seen. It was scary to a little kid like me.

[TalogaGirl]

I came to Topeka in 1965 and was only about a mile (or less) from some of the heaviest damage. I didn't really see it until the next morning and it looked like a war zone. By the way, Topeka has a lot more than Westboro Baptist Church. We get really tired of people always bringing that up whenever Topeka is mentioned (including friends or relatives from further away). We have no control over their activities, which are directed even more at Topekans than outsiders. "Freedom of Speech."

[paulbrowncsm]

I was 6 yrs old when this hit. We lived on Clay street, not too far from the capitol building. I remember our school being wiped out just 2 blocks away, but our block was spared. My dad was stationed at Forbes at the time and at work, so several of us kids were home alone at the time it hit. Scared the heck out of us, it was to loud.

[DannyDaBaddy]

if only it woulda killed the westboro baptist church

[siszam]

@DannyDaBaddy You just stooped to their level.

[reymatt76]

@DannyDaBaddy Even the tornado didn't want to go anywhere near them!

[MrCraig1930]

I remember this one. it was bad. Kansas had some good ones. Udall in 1955, Topeka in 1966, Andover in 1991 and Greensburg in 2007.

[ChristopherSaindon]

Topeka -- this was a classic. Actually was

studied by Joseph R Eagleman who did

statistically indicate that the southwest

corner advice of that era was wrong.

[OldTroll11]

Shoulda kept it local and used Dust in the wind for a sound track on this

[lslvn]

@OldTroll11  LOL You have a great point!

[jeedo31]

Why cant a tornado destroy the West Boro Baptist Church?

[cateluv]

I still live in Topeka and have yet to witness a single tornado. But every time the sirens sound I think of this tornado.

[cateluv]

My dad lived on Burnett's Mound in 1966 and had just graduated high school. He was on his front porch as he watched it come over the mound. He, his sister and their parents went to the basement and when they came back up, the house was still intact but they had neighbors whose houses were completely obliterated. When he went to his girlfriend's house he saw a car on the 2nd floor of the now destroyed Huntington Condos. . and couldn't get back to his house because of the National Guard.

[ColumbiaAndHoodRiver]

dig you using the music credits from twister, epic 5/5

[jayhawkballer99]

my grandpa stopped by a gas station before it hit and told the guy to take cover. afterwards my grandma was called to the hospital because she was a nurse at the time and my grandpa went out looking for bodies since he had a voltswagon and thats what they told people with voltswagons and trucks to do. and he went back to the gas station and the guy was dead. had to be pretty gruesome, but hell he was in korea.

[naderchaser]

@jayhawkballer99 My wife was in that tornado, too. She lived on base. What was that regarding "they" told everybody with a volkswagon to go out and find bodies? Why would they issue an order like that? VW's at that time were really small cars. We called 'em VW BUGS. Not too roomy for a dead body. Only thing I can think of, is if there was a lot of mud involved, that the rear engined VW might have better traction. But I'd sure like to know what you're talking about there, please. Joel in Tucson

[kevin120857]

I was eight years ole and living in Topeka when this happened. I still have dreams about some of the images seen afterward. The May 3rd OKC tornado reminded me of this event. Anchorman and TV persona Bill Curtis was a young broadcast apprentice with WIBW and became famous for being on during the passing the twister, invoking people to "for God's sake take cover."

[JohnnyDart76]

@anticyclonic: It's hard to believe that it was 3 years ago yesterday that this video was first posted on Youtube. It has been a personal favorite of mine ever since.

Here's to another 3 years of happy viewing! ;-)

[monkeyygrl22]

was this song in twister? can anyone tell me!

[pwnperson]

topeka is in tornado alley its usual for tornados

[darris321]

@pwnperson no.

i live in topeka

tornado alley is mostly to the west

i have also lived in the west.

lol

[calfween]

I live in Topeka and there is maybe a tornado siren or two each summer or spring! but this year there wasn't one!

[darris321]

@calfween i know that was weird huh?

[TheDavesnothereman]

Some EXCELLENT-TOPEKA- TRIVIA-'66 for you all and maybe a new audio mix for this footage...You see there was a buddy of mine that lived a few blocks from me back then who had this excellent set of drums and he would practice in is basement. This was '62-63 & we were in the 7th-8th grade. We were starting highschool the fall of 1966. We went our own ways but in 1975 they released "DUST IN THE WIND" .....Hey Phil, its VanCamp ! The Road goes on...doesn't it man...Watch out for these funnelheads.

[sar5star]

i live in California..and i think everyone hates us because our climate is so perfect and they want to live here but they can't..i'm sorry for all the people that have to go through this tornados, huricanes, ect..

[siszam]

I live in SoCal now and I've lived in the Southern and Midwest U.S. People hate Cali because many (not saying you) who have never left California tend to feel superior to people in other parts of the U.S. that they've never met. It's a special mix of ignorance and arrogance. Give me a tornado any day over the constant, boring sunshine here and people who wear winter coats when it's seventy degrees. :)

[mryjn420090]

OMG LOL I'm from Topeka and I hate this place so much LOOOOL

[hakanry]

If you dont like it here fell free to leave there are several roads that will take you out of town

[RJKProductionz]

i live in topeka kansas and it has never been a tornato in topeka for a while

[factorone]

A town with over 100,000 people is boring?

Give me a break. I live 3 hours west of there where a "small" town is less than 10,000.

[Radicalreels]

I live in north Texas now, also known as "Tornado Alley" I was almost six when this torndao hit and missed us by one block!

[abracefacetwoeyes]

I live in the middle of tornado alley. For some strange reason, since i have been alive, no tornado has hit. Yes, it has formed, but never completely.

[drubshinin]

dang this is crazy, the tornado just past where i live by a couple blocks, is what my mom told me

[topekatawny]

I also grew up in Topeka, but unlike many others, I have seen 3 different tornados and was  home alone with the Lake Shawnee tornado in 1983 (ish) hit my house. My parents were shopping at White Lakes Mall. My g-pa from Hutchinson KS was a KPL lineman who came to Topeka for 6 weeks in 1966 to help get the power back on.

[ghettofish125]

hah....i live near lake shawnee :P west edge....lakeshore....near the gas station "the dock"

[slimthugga34]

ha! and that little bar

[ghettofish125]

YUP! :)

[nickalexrock]

i live in topeka to it sucks

[reghanwostalrocks]

I live in Topeka Kansas. Tornadoes hardly ever come. And its not that scary. I've never seen a tornado and i've never seen one.

[dreamtheater61]

First of all that doesnt make any sense, and secondly there was one near washburn rural last year.

[Liz1951]

The beginning footage of this video was taken at the south parking lot of Countryside Methodist Church. A lot of people went there to seek shelter.

[sidbran]

holy crap

[haz3yb0y]

man us britains have it easy compared to u americans, u get tornadeos, earthquakes, hurricanes and more. whereas in britain we get cold weather and rain and some brits complain about its like that. but u americans seem to be prepared for the storms, earthquakes etc. but i think that if it snowed in florida they would stop everything (but thats unlikely to happen)

[focuswarrior]

it has snowed in florida....

[haz3yb0y]

really? well u learn summit new every day:D

[XAnimeCrazy]

I second that xD

[cateluv]

Oh yeah and my dad was living on Burnett's Mound. He was 19 at the time and stood at the front door watching it come over the hill. He drove to his girlfriend's house afterwards to see if she was okay and told me about the cars in the second level of the Huntington Condos that had been stripped and looked like dollhouses. Police wouldn't let him back in his neighborhood because it had been blocked off (his house was missed!).

[cateluv]

I've lived in Topeka most of my life (I'm 27) and have never seen a tornado yet the two years I lived in New York City (2001-2003), I experienced an earthquake. Felt like a giant truck hit the apartment building. Tornadoes seem to pass Topeka by now. I am pretty sure the last time a tornado caused any sort of destruction in this town is back in the late eighties when it hit Topeka West. My sister was in art class at that moment.

[Nicki3211998]

ive lived in topeka all of my life and surprisingly ive never seen a tornado

[MixdNinjette19]

my mom survived that tornado and until this day shes terrified of them.......we still live here in topeka

[CreativeCritisizm]

,,don't you think it's about time to move ? (forget Oklahoma City)

[empettit123]

F 5

[kingjl611]

my grandfather was killed in this tornado, i wasnt even a twinkle in my father's eye yet, but sure would've loved to meet my grandfather. born and raised in topeka, lived there for 18 years.

[jofitzpatri]

was 3 and lived a mile from washburn university then.remember running to a neighbors basement where the parents were singing home on the range to drown out the noise so the teens and little kids would not be scared.after it was over i remember that the trees looked like they had cotton candy in them.must of been isulation from some home or building

[CreativeCritisizm]

Music sounds a lot like Pink Floyd.

[bedwards05]

its the same music thats at the end of the movie twister during the credits

[tornadomanatwork]

VERY SAD

[CreativeCritisizm]

,,it's not sad dude, tornados kick ass !,,thats the beauty behind them, they were put here by God to inform us that life has it's downs, as well as it's ups.

[CalfCreek4x12x08]

too bad this topeka tornado didnt kill fred phelps. :)

[oliasdoug]

Wow....you beat me to the comment! :o) High 5.

[Jamiesyme999]

yea the soundtrack was that movies best thing going for it...

[lovemuffin1963]

No it's Twister

[lovemuffin1963]

No it's Twister

[Unkownwatcher]

Sound like the ending song to scarface.

[AgentCirrus]

great choice of music, same on Twister ending, great vid

[punkhippo2]

ive been in topeka my whole life cough 15 years but yea same not one seen in my eyes excpet till that one touched down in auburn couple weeks ago saw that woot

i was on my way to camp to work =]

[datzfast]

we had no weather radar in those days

[myrainbow1956]

What are the odds of Topeka having more tornadoes in respect to other areas of Kansas? My daughter lives there.

[wildfire19861987]

somewhat good. Topeka was hit by 3 or 4 far smaller ones between 1988 and 1993.

on a side note: Burnett's mound is definitely no longer effective, because Topeka now extends several miles to the west, southwest, and south of it.

I've got one of the special report papers the Topeka Capital Journal published about it. Found it at a local auction.

[08251967jeanie]

I've been in Topeka for 11 yrs and have yet to see one touch down

[dahoss2x]

My great-Grandmothers house was just missed. The entire block opposite of hers was wiped out. She lived in the Oakland neighborhood, in an old victorian or colonial style house with a claw-foot bathtub. My grandparents lived over by gage park and never got touched. I was not even born yet... but when we would visit Topeka every summer in the 70's and 80's,I heard many stories about that "big one". Scary!

[futureactress198]

I live in Topeka and you can still see some of the aftermath from the '66 tornado, esp. by Washburn University. You can tell which houses were destroyed because it's new, new, old, old, new, old... You can also tell by looking at Washburn itself. It's the same way over in the Oakland neighborhood also.

[adoriaawyse]

I am also from topeka but of course I was born after the tornado hit. I always wondered why it looked that way. Neat info thanks...

[Radicalreels]

I was there! Only five years old then. I remember how dark out it got. My Dad put a blanket over my sister, two brothers and me. My Mom was in Michigan at the time. The phones were out for days before she found out we were alright. It missed us by two blocks!

[gwinfavor]

I was there a day or 2 after it hit looking for realatives. They all lived but my Aunts house was scoured clean just a concrete pad left. Even though I knew it like the back of my hand I had to count slabs from the corner to figure out which one it was. Trees were all gone as well. I had been through many tornados but this was worse than I could have imagined.

[yokota69]

My family lived on 32 st and our house was the last row south. i was watching it as it hit the farm behind my house- the whole barn just blew up.I ran downstairs and my mother and little sister were under the bed crying. i told my mother that its going to hit the house, then you heard the sound of a train for about 10 seconds then silence. i ran upstairs and out the front door to see it ripping up the houses a block away.

[Wwelchgeorge]

I was stationed at Forbes AFB in 1966. I not only saw the Tornado but drove away from it as fast as my 1962 ford could take me and my buddies back to the base. I was a medic at the base and the next day several groups in our corps were assigned to finding bodies or survivores in the rubble. Needles to say being only 21 yrs old at the time I was scared to death. I mean live elect. wires were on the ground and numerous other hazards. I will never forget that horrible day. Ralph Welch

[jeremyjay46]

Love the music. Great vid.

[linkhamtaro]

Is it hot there? XD

[Imputa]

sometimes yeah xD

im gonna go pick my toes now.

[Derek799]

I remember that day, I was 78 I was sittin on the porch eating a cheese sandwich when I saw it, we got in our cars and drove towards it back the metoroligist said you have to drive towards tornados because the wind your car will make it shft

[brfts2001]

you were 78? so your 120 now lol!

[Derek799]

I was about 39, I sat on the porch and watched it, it came towards me, so I ducked under my bench, and put a piece of paper over my head, I got hit directly by some leaves.

[mamamia1661]

uh from what your chanell says u arent even 30 yet :P (response to dereck799

[JakeTV248]

It's hot in Topeka, but not that day it wasn't. :P

[dana2k]

I was 3 days old and still in the hospital when the tornado hit. My brother and grandmother were on the way back from the hospital and narrowly missed being caught by the tornado. It was an expensive disaster and it is fortunate that as few lives were lost as were lost in it. My dad still has that issue of the front page of the Topeka paper in his dresser drawer.

[Imputa]

both of my parents were around the age of 8 when that happened. my mother, who lived in the highland park area, remembers seeing the aftermath, but not the tornado itself. my dad was out of town, but my grandmother and his siblings were in a home that was just 2 blocks south of it's destruction path near downtown. from what my uncle tells me, the only thing they could do to keep them calm in the basement was to sing Home on the Range as loud as they could to drown out the noise.

[ColJacks]

I was in the Topeka Tornado. I lived at 1710

Washburn which was directly across from the campus at the Northwest corner. I took Bertha Mae Whitney to the hospital that night. She died after I left the hospital and I learned about her death in the newspaper the next morning. For a full read of my experience go to the web site that features comments given during the observance of the 40th anniversary of the tornado. I believe it was sponsored by Channel 13 television.

[Anticyclonic]

Oh wow, that's really horrible. I can't imagine what being in this particular twister was like.

I've been a tornado enthusiast since that day back in 1983 when I was outside playing while a severe storm was moving in. Everyone ran for their houses and I tried to "chase" the storm on my tricycle (foiled by my mother, of course). But being an "enthusiast", I've felt, is a rather awkward term for something so potentially tragic.

[MTStingray]

Thank you for putting this video of the Topeka F-5 Tornado on youtube, I've always wanted to know just what the finger of god (in my opinion) looked like. If you tried to chase the storm back in 1983 from complete interest in storms, did you become a storm chaser later? I want to be a storm chaser when i'm not considered to be to young.

[MTStingray]

ColJacks, did you actually see the tornado as it went by?

[ColJacks]

No, I didn't see the tornado as it went by.

I heard it coming and was hanging out as close as I could to the Southwest corner of the basement with my wife Donna and our duplex neighbors Jerry and Janet McElroy. We saw the old fashioned school type window open and shut and the wind suck out the vent pipe from the dryer which was vented through the window. We heard lots of noise and when I went outside I saw the house down the street fall over and debris falling overhead so I took cover again.

[ColJacks]

No, I didn't see the tornado as it went by.

I heard it coming and was hanging out as close as I could to the Southwest corner of the basement with my wife Donna and our duplex neighbors Jerry and Janet McElroy. We saw the old fashioned school type window open and shut and the wind suck out the vent pipe from the dryer which was vented through the window. We heard lots of noise and when I went outside I saw the house down the street fall over and debris falling overhead so I took cover again.

[MTStingray]

Ok, thanks. It must have been a horrifying experience all the same though. I was watching a story about it on television a couple months ago, and there was horrible damage. There were skyscrapers with offices cleaned almost completely of anything in them. The twister just took one deep breath and topeka was devestated. My grandmother, from what I was told, went there with her baby boy, my oldest uncle now, to see the damage. If only they had recorded it.

[MTStingray]

And i want to be a storm chaser when i'm a little older (well, i actually want to be one now, but i'm sure no one would let me). Tornadoes are destructive, yes, but also beautiful in a way. I want to study them more and more, and get to know them personally by following them. The only way to get a good experience in the study of tornadoes is to get hands on, in my opinion.

[ColJacks]

My wife was actually in another tornado on June 8 (same day different year) 1974 in Emporia Kansas so we are always alert around that time of year. I must confess I have a weather alert radio on most of the year. I have seen them up close and personal. Once in Iowa in about 1960 during a severe storm at night. We were in fact near Storm Lake Iowa and were headed to Minnessota. There was a lightning flash and I saw one behind us. It was mighty scarry and I have no desire to chase them. Be safe.

[MTStingray]

K, thanks! I'll do my best to no get sucked into one.

[MTexasPrincess]

Thank you for showing this. I was 6 when this happened. Ican still remember the feeling of the day. (green and muggy). My dad was in the Navy and had to go search for bodies afterward. I can still hear Bill Kurtis' voice pleading for all totake cover.

[opalzone]

Yeah, I was 5 years old when this happened, I remember going to the cellar--we had to go outside to get to it. The air got really still & the sky turned green. I saw a really cool cloud that looked like a hammer. My mom was really upset because my older brother did not want to come to the cellar--he stood outside & watched. I wanted to stay with him but mom wasn't having it!

[Englerp]

I was 10 years old when it hit. I did not see it

but it came close enough to our house we could hear it. It was the most scary sound I ever heard. We were in the basement. It was a war zone after math. Amazing video...things should have changed lot since then. PS we are due again!! Thanks

[thefirefighter]

i live in buffalo im glade all i have to worry about is snow

[MesocycloneEvo]

i live in an area near albany, they call the tornado alley of the east, just search the mechanicville / stillwater tornado of may 31 1998, my best friends grandparent was killed, and a lot of my friends were hurt, in fact my neighborhood was descimated (vail hill)

that is what as a child got me interested in weather, especially the violent kind.

[tac966]

i live der- it waz soo horrible- my parents hav pics if u want em

[bmtbanq]

my parents lived in topeka back then. my mom said she saw a straw that poked through a small tree limb.

[sunflowerks40]

I live in Topeka. The tornado happened before I was born. My parents got caught up in it! They came out ok, my mother was pregnant with my brother then

[michallekklewin]

i livie in poland in poland no credit torado and i am happy

[craaazzzzeeeeeeee0]

creepy

[takenmamma]

that was very sad and scary i am terrified of tornadoes and that did not help lol

[Yarndt]

Bill Kurtis was a weatherman in Topeka back then. He became famous for emphasizing the danger by saying: "For God's sake, take cover!"

[Kontagious411]

i live in Topeka as well. I'm just not as proud about it.

[Cmanrocks13]

I live in Topeka and my Grandma and my dad both went throught the tornado we have a picture of my granda pregnet with my uncle looking at the remins of the house and for Lmorgan they do let people back up onto the top of te capitol again and i just went up their about a few months ago see ya

[RubyRocker111]

holy crap! an F5?!?!? * goes paralized*

[chaserchick87]

I love this song....I made a slideshow and put this song in it. Excellent clip

[bigsweaty15]

Haha you stole that song from the Twister soundtrack! Nice!

[xxxwachxxx]

kansas! yeaah!

[michael6076]

This was a scary, tragic and traumatic event for those of us who lived in Topeka, but were not in the tornado's path. I was 11 and was with my brother on vacation in New York City with our grandparents. My mother was at home, in Topeka, when it missed our house by only a couple of blocks. However, we had numerous friends and neighbors who were not so lucky. It was a miracle that so few lives were lost! An event like this is hard to forget, even after all of these years!

--Michael Anderson

[LMorgan1234]

I walked up the million steps of the state capitol about 5 years after this tornado and you could still see the path the tornado made through Topeka. Don't think they let you up there the capitol anymore.

[PixxenVideo]

i walked these steps half a year ago, everything fine

[Kolfritz]

My parents were in jr. high when this happened. Mom lived near McClure Elementary, and my dad lived real close to the path at 28th and Gage. Grandpa stood on his car and filmed for 10 min. with a 16mm movie camera. Much more damage than Greensburg.

[BrunetteChoco16]

Yeah. I lives in topeka, ks. My grandma said she still remembers this day. it was awful. Unbelievable! everyone still tlks about it..

[brfts2001]

hopefully if the next big one decides to hit Topeka..it takes all it's wrath against the Phelps family hahaha!

[FredPhelpsIsAFag]

I second that!

[FredPhelpsIsAFag]

But it should take out just the WBC and not the rest of Topeka.

[ndpink1990]

My Dad saw this tornado coming at his house in Topeka when he was 11. He still remembers it like yesterday.

[xgirlfiendx]

whoooooaaaaaa

[Dori28266]

i live in carbondale, about 15-30 min. away from Topeka.. i hope i never see a tornado in my life!

[jazminisposh]

topeka is my home town, i didnt go through this specific tornado, but i have been through some ones that bout make me shit myself. Makes you think twice about sayin tornado's is nothin

[hspies01]

Uhh Topeka was said to be spared a Tornado by Shawnee Indians as long as no building took place on the mound where the built a huge water tower. Once they did the tornado struck. I was in my mama's womb under a matress when the torndado struck. A large printing press from the Topeka newspaper was lifted off the ground and went into the dome of the state capitol....and stuff

[dsindc]

Interesting. I was under a bed in my basement with my mom laying on top of me ( so she says ). You're right. I think the legend had it that Chief Burnett or somebody was buried on Burnett's mound, and that if anybody messed with it, he would seek revenge from the grave. Well.... I remember hearing it from Oakley and Huntoon...very scary. I now live six blocks from the white house and can say that only 9-11 was more horrifying. And trust me, it was.

[jamithompson]

I'm from Topeka. I was 7 when this happened.we were moving that day.scariest thing for a kid to live through.makes you respect mother nature.

[tall32guy]

You oughta show this vid to some of the people who were in the tornado, see how well they think ya did! :-) Of course the music I'm guessing may not be to their liking, but oh well. :-) I think it fits pretty well myself.

[tall32guy]

It's cool to see really old tornado footage like this. There's tons of it from more recent ones, but back then they didn't have camcorders and videophones so that's why it's rare to see, and cool for that reason. Eddie Van Halen also was always a great guitarist, IMO ! :) Better than me anyway. :-P

[Brandino554]

My dad was int that tornado he was watching batman when it went right over his house he was like 10

[fjeffrey10]

Before this happened people believed that Topeka was safe from tornadoes because it's in a valley.  Lol!

[Anticyclonic]

Yeah, I heard something about that. Weren't they some local natives or something?

[sk8tinflip]

well couple weeks ago there was 28 tornados in one fukin night it mus hav been crazy hopefully we wont get hit here in top city

[Rihavens]

My grandfater was picked up in his car downtown. Lived to tell about it.

[ichabod13]

nice video...let's hope we don't get any crazy ones this year. Already 80+ degrees in march isn't looking good !

[JaxieBoy]

Where'd you find this???

[Anticyclonic]

Where'd I find what, exactly? The footage or the whole video? I made the video myself, the footage is off of an old VHS tape (which explains the less-than-DVD-quality of it). Some of my oldest tapes are from like '94 (news reports, programs, etc. I got off TV back then); I'm surprised they haven't sprouted moss by now, LOL.

[pkwfireteacher]

I was living in Topeka, Kansas when that tornado hit. I was a 10 year old boy and you talk about being scared. To this day I have a fear of tornadoes.

PKW

[8daze]

I had a relative who lived near Burnett's Mound. He insisted on standing outside and watching the tornado, no matter how much the family pleaded with him. They just barely got missed.

[Anticyclonic]

Aw, thanks guys. It's nice to stir some emotion with what you're most passionate about.

[WillieDines1]

You've not only posted another great video clip, but6 also you have got great taste in music :D, gotta love Van Halen for such a great piece of music for a darn good movie :)

YOU ROCK AC!!! :), top rating always and I'm glad that I have subscribed :D

[JaxieBoy]

Did it hit the Westboro Baptist Church????

I know that if it did, they rebuilt it anyway, but I just wanna know.

[BodDrummer]

Westboro Baptist didn't exist back then, or at least I don't think it did. If it did, it was only Fred. I don't think they started their church til the family had time to expand so they could have some sort of following.

[JaxieBoy]

LOL, I was just kidding around.

I don't like them, though.

[JaxieBoy]

Yes, I love this video.

[AVtornado74]

That was so beautiful i almost cried.

[ColonelAngus75]

Awesome video! I had never seen some of that footage before so thanks for uploading this. Also you can never go wrong with putting Van Halen music in a video!

[tornadomad]

TRUE DAT!!