La Plata, Maryland Tornado, 4-28-2002

The tornader. Parts of this video were used by CNN (they paid me $300) and Fox News. Sorry about the cheesy intro and outro; I originally edited this for just family.

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• Tornado
• LaPlata
• Maryland
• hail
• Ament
• La
• Plata
• Southern
• CharlesCounty
• Charles
• County
• F4

[xlovekr]

was this taken in quailwood ? i was 4 when this happend , my friend was 5 that day , she was at the mcdonalds across the street from arbys and the new ritas

[typyclsytuation]

@xlovekr King's Grant...

[202john115]

Quialwood?

[typyclsytuation]

@202john115 King's Grant...

[jjy1463]

My daughter and I live in La Plata and were shopping when the tornado hit. I "twist" of fate saved us. We were shopping for a birthday card and while at a red light were debating between going to CVS or the then new Wal-Mart; both in La Plata. We decided to try the Wal-Mart. When we came out the front doors of the Wal-Mart after buying a card, we saw the tornado as it destroyed the CVS. The CVS is now an Outback restaurant.

[youuggg312]

because it was strong. it was an f5 tornado. 6 people died. ans school was tore down. houses were destroyed. building were demolished. my mother's boos's house was tore in half.

[lookingup82]

(cont) we were all at the right place at the right time! we later found out that 4 deaf people were probably saved because they were with us and not at home- without warning! I saw a huge black storm cloud wall before the show...and was amazed but wasn't sure it was a tornado!(Looked like ONE cloud- stole all the others and it was totally black- i guess from debris!

[lookingup82]

(Cont) A cop knocked and asked if anyone was from la Plata- because the whole town was gone!! (None of our cars had a dent form that huge hail! Cars to left and right parking lots had damage- none in that churches parking lot had damage! We turned the radio on and the 'terps took turns- getting on stage and interp'g radio reports so the deaf knew which roads were closed and what to expect. We were all blessed- at that time there was NO emergency contact system for the deaf! All the terps/...

[lookingup82]

I was with about 150 deaf people about 8 interpreters(some other hearing people too) at a special Church function for the deaf on that Sunday night!The show started with a deaf man signing songs about praising God in the storms of life! Lights dimmed- we thought it was part of his show! (We politely had all pagers/phones and even the radio in the kitchen(W/hearing working back there-turned off! Knew NOTHING abt TORNADO.!!!!

[highguy9900]

Tornado? [Yawn]

Hey, is that NuFinish on your car?!?!

[COAx4nge1killa]

i was about 6 when this happened, i lived on kalmia court when this happened

[ScremoSkullz]

@MissKuriosity Katrina? Katrina was in 2005 + was a Hurricane. Adding to that, it was in Louisiana. I remember when I was In Leonardtown when this happened.

[iBeLovingZebra]

Just wanna say i turned 4 that day .