Abbeville Tornado 1973 Part 1

Abbeville Tornado 1973 Part 1

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• Abbeville
• Tornado
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[bethclayinmd]

@bcountry1013 I lived in Abbeville and lived through this storm

[bcountry1013]

@donnieinsc Hi there, My name is John an avid storm chaser. I'm doing a paper on this storm, and was wondering if you would know any living eyewitness'. Thanks!

[joebradio]

I lived in the Woodlawn area off SC 72 when this came through -- we didn't get hit too bad, but I remember the wind and rain even though I was nine years old at the time.. I remember the next days edition of the Index-Journal saying Tornado ALERTS were issues which I have never heard before then. Also good to hear the voice of Carroll Sexton again, he was the first person who helped me get into the radio biz.

[donnieinsc]

I remember it too I as a little kid. Looks so familiar.

[hetoimasai]

The ruins of our two-story house (the Horace Kidd house) are shown 3:40 to 3:55. An eyewitness to the funnel's approach said that our house bore a direct hit of the funnel. Nobody was at home at the time it struck, else some of us would probably have been seriously injured, maybe fatally.

[Dextromethorpho]

Hell I was there

[skeethorton]

thanks again for posting this and thanks to joe cheek for filming this.wow,36 years ago! i remember it well. david horton,jr.

[HeadCase24]

Thanks for the video. I never knew about this event, it was a couple years before my time.