Topeka Tornado 1966

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2011

A video of the tornado and devastation in Topeka, Kansas in 1966. We were hiding under work tables in a basement listening to Bill Curtis of WIBW.

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  • "warning...warning..incoming  tornado"...

  • @LJBevensII Oh my, that must've been scary.

  • @LJBevensII There was in the front of our home a very new 2"x6"x14' cut ceiling joist laying diagonally across our front lawn. It was presumed that this had come from the apartment construction on Burnetts mound. This was actually the closest to any damage that our house would have sustained as it lay only ten feet or so from the large picture window in our front room.

  • @LJBevensII

    It wan't until the next day when my father who was in dental school in Kansas City returned and we drove around to check on other relatives as there was no phone service and little information was available for checking on family. I remember also helping my family clean up the debris from the yard which filled more than three large military dump trucks.

  • @LJBevensII I remember the skies had an eerie pink and orange tint to it and we could see clear path from the mound across the VA hospital and Kansas Neurological Institute all the way up to the above mentioned shopping center. Washburn university was only a few blocks away and the path ran straight through there leveling everything in it's path.

  • @LJBevensII We were down there for what seemed hours yet it was all clear in a short while. When we came up from the basement we were thrilled and surprised that there was absolutely no damage to the house. Not even a broken windo or a lifted shingle on the roof. The grocery store and shopping center along with a gas station about three hundred feet from our back door was not so lucky. All had been leveled to the ground and not a shard of glass left in any frames.

  • @Beauty4Aspies

    Yes WIBW is still on the air today...I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was seven years old and remembering that I had just put on boots and rain coat to go feed my pet rabbit. I was on my way out the door when we heard the sirens sound. We immediately took cover the basement and waited it out. It sounded like a jet airplane was landing on our roof it was so loud.

  • Is WIBW still around today?

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