May 22nd, 2011 ROCKFORD, IL Storm/Tornado/Microburst W. State and Springfield Avenue

[Trojans175]

You know, I'm from Cary, IL and I was watching another person's video on this storm. And I can tell it's, the same time (disregarding the storm) the the same song on the radio @ 1:32 

[bornthiswayx3]

Rocking out to Bruno while a microburst is passing through like a BOSS :D

[funejm]

this song blows

[ALRULZ1965]

@ovidio114 I only say that because if you live here you know the rep that W.State st. gets.

[ovidio114]

@ALRULZ1965 West state isn't that bad, between the river and avon. and springfield and where 20 meets lol

[perhour12345]

I live in Gurnee, we had some crazy clouds if you looked at the video I recorded. A few funnels were forming, but never made it. Crazy storm!!

[mississippi789]

i love rockford i live by there im in schamburg but yesterday was crasy >.>

[ovidio114]

@mississippi789 Schaumburg is an amazing city too. It's close to everything! A little pricier than Rockford tho.

[mississippi789]

@ovidio114 yea true true :)

[ModernXGamingHD]

Yeah i heard the actual tornado touched down in polo

[epicfail2929]

it was terible yesturday

[ovidio114]

@epicfail2929 Yup!

[cheke99]

i live in rockford to dude it was raining big BALLS of hail

[ovidio114]

@cheke99 BALLS indeed. This video doesn't show much (even though it's hd), the storm was more thrilling in real life. I was kind of scared driving.

[melxann]

me, my sister and boyfriend were in walmart on east state street. they had us locked down in there and made us go to the middle of the store as the tornado passed over us. i just moved here from pennsylvania, and it was the scariest thing i've ever experienced!

[ovidio114]

@melxann First of all, welcome to Rockford! It's a wonderful city. Don't let anyone here tell you different. Back in 2003 we had microbursts, with winds exceeding 100 mph, and for an entire week, we had no power! Most ppl were sleeping when that happened though.

[Deadlyextreme1]

I was driving nead the raillroad track and a car flipped over right beside me. the people in the car ran somewhere because the car was empty after i looked inside

[ovidio114]

@Deadlyextreme1 Oh wow, that sounds scary. Where was that at?

[Wekissinbreakdowns]

Great footage! I was in Machesney Park when it hit! Saw that huge wall cloud coming my way and rain into the basement before the power went out! Definitely sounded like debris was hitting the house! So crazy

[ovidio114]

@Wekissinbreakdowns The thrill of getting out right before it hit, then seeing it engulf the area was amazing! There was debris hitting my car too, but you can't see it because of the rain and hail. My car was swerving once I got on US 20 EAST.