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Tornado rips through Big Rapids Michigan

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Uploaded by on May 22, 2007

This footage was shot on an 8MM FILM camera in 1968 by my grandparents, in Big Rapids. I recently transferred all the film to a DVD and thought I'd share this remarkable footage with anyone else who knows Big Rapids. The tornado was an F3 and destroyed many brick buildings in the area.

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  • Kinda neat seein old footage of br. I grew up in br but I'm only thirty. Biggest disaster in my time was the flood of 86. Lots of damage. Oh and to you people badmouthing our small town....good riddance. We don't need nor want you here

  • Thanks for sharing this. I was born in Big Rapids, and was 9 years old when this tornado hit. Brings a flood of memories to mind. We lived a block from the Wolverine Factory, and our house was untouched. My Uncle's house, a block in the opposite direction, lost the entire second story.

  • now the high school area is the middle school only i in 8th grade

  • my grandparents live on cathrine

  • Being an amateur chaser in WI, and not being anywhere near born yet, I'd say this is great footage for its time, especially this one. Wasn't as big as Wheelersburg one, but from same outbreak.

  • @Zeldagurl4eva me too. ME TOO!

  • @BurberryShades me too. and I hate thunder storms!

  • Was anyone killed in this twister?

  • @stickbuddy1 There was one that hit Grand Rapids (an F5 actually) but that was in 1956.

  • were there any thunderbolt 1000 or 1000t in those years

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