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Four months after Topeka, we here in Iowa had a similar experience when an F5 tornado struck the town of Belmond on October 14. The local school's homecoming parade had finished about 15 minutes earlier, and one can only imagine the carnage had the tornado struck then...

I was 10 when the tornado hit. Our house was the first one hit by the tornado. We lived a half mile west of 61st and auburn rd., It took everything. It did not start on Burnetts Mound. It started west of Topeka, after it hit our house it killed a couple who lived on Auburn Rd.

We lived at the base of Burnett's mound. My brother and I were in our tractor tire sand box when it started and I remember my mom grabbing us up and pulling us into the basement. BTW they never found the chunk of the capital that was taken by the tornado.

No. No. No! If your life and the lives of others survived, you've lost Nothing!

Shiit my mother wasn’t born yet let alone me

sounds like a horrible place to ever live in

why do all the 1950s and 1960s newsman sound the same! wild every radio voice sounded similar back then

Even back then Bill Kurtis was a rock star lol

Damn, looks like Rick was wearing a mud rug

We must always embrace the horror

I feel embarrassed for people who actually voice a belief that this had to do with Indian ANYTHING! Indians are well known for PAGAN beliefs. They actually honor the creation rather than The Creator. No better than people who worship graven images made of stone or wood. If anything Indians increase the likelihood of disaster by unknowingly honoring Satan.

You couldn't pay me enough to live there.

I used to watch this documentary & I loved it 100/10❤❤❤❤❤

I was here, in Topeka. I remember it.

Easily F5.

I had just graduated from high school the month before. My small hometown is just an hour’s drive north of Topeka and we often shopped there. I was angry when they stopped the broadcast of “Lost In Space” to report on the tornado. The report lasted the entire evening. I remember different broadcasters reporting from different parts of the city. We went to Topeka about a month later, and the damage was still visible.

We were there traveling through, I was four, my dad grabbed me threw us in the car at the gas station, he saw it coming. I'm 62 I still remember it well.

I’ll NEVER forget that sound. It sounded like ten freight trains rushing all towards you. I was terrified. I still dream about it. My buddy Dock Higgs died that day. RIP Dock.

From what I learned from this documentary and many others is to NEVER believe in legends that will supposedly "protect" you from bad to even severe weather and if there is ever an event of severe weather. DON'T mingle around, either get the fuck out or take cover. This disaster just proved that anything can happen and no legend can or will protect you. It's sad that lives were lost and many people were injured, I send my deepest condolences to the friends and family who lost someone they deeply cared about.

As usual, as the saying goes, before you tear a fence down because you see no reason for it, you should think twice. Someone put it there for a reason.... so men being what they are, in our haste to do something profitable and logical, no one felt it was necessary to pay any attention to some native stories or superstitions when there was no logical reason for it. That's our major weakness as Amurrikins, I think. In California we see this kind of idiocy happen all the time, but then we are a one-party blue state. Do you think a single young woman would remain at their post making connects to other people or if they would just jump on their social media and take pictures to show on Instagram or whatever, TikTok, maybe? Although disasters and wars are a great way to unite a people. These days it's all about slicing and dicing everyone into little tiny groups of individuals who are afraid of each other instead of everyone being Americans first.... I'm surprised that so few of these places in Tornado Alley had storm cellars.... I was through a hurricane in St Thomas and the attitude in St Thomas was always like "well, what can you do?" It was quite remarkable. But you know what? There was no looting or theft that we saw, as tourists. These days forget it. (Hurricane Marilyn, if anyone's interested) Saved by the piano! Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast (or "breast" as it orginally goes). What sounds did that piano make while the winds were whipping around it? Was it still in tune?

Lived right at the base of the mountain on the other side of the highway. I believe it was evening side drive. I was 8 years old. I'll never forget it.

Watch Bill Curtis's documentary on the Kennedy assassination. It is thorough and accurate.

My husband's cousin as 9 months pregnant & was killed in the 1966 tornado.

This is the kinda stuff that happened remember all the black towns white people burn down remember black wall street ,rosewood .

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BROTHERS! SINGS OF END OF THE WORLD MORE WORSE THINGS COMING THE ENEMY ATACKING! IT WAS GREAT EARTHQUAKE THE SUN BECAME BLACK AND THE MOON BECAME AS BLOOD AND THE STARS FELL INTO THE EARTH AND THE MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS MOVED OUT OF THE PLACES! REVELATIONS 6#12-13 THE WORLD WILL BE DARKNESS FOR THOUSAND YEARS You must repent of your sins, pray and study the word of God (the Holy Bible) the end of the world is near.

I was a tweener on a farm 15 miles south of Topeka; we stood in the yard and watched a wall of black tornado move across the city from that far away

I remember driving from Kansas City on 470 West around Topeka after the tornado and looking down over the city. I remember thinking of a tall apt building that looked like a dollhouse as one side of the building had been removed. My cousins lived there and their house was not damaged. They described the tornado as sounding like a freight train right over the house. They lived about a mile from where the tornado went through the city.

Thank you for the uploads of all 4 parts. I enjoyed the movie.

To think we almost lost one of the greatest voices of our time.

Mankind is so arrogant to think that we can be God. But we never will be. And it doesn't matter what we build. It doesn't matter how intelligent we are. It doesn't matter how advanced our technology is. We will always be weak and feeble beings, who are vastly underpowered, compared to the power of God.

They assumed, that was their mistake. There is simply no protection from the fury of nature.

Alone time ago, they used to say that a telephone pole would just expand and the wheat stock would go through it. Curious where do you work at? I use to live in southeast KS and northeast too.

“Looters will be shot on sight” - could you just imagine that in this era/climate?

Bill Kurtis referring to bill kurtis interviewing bill kurtis. This kurtiception is magnificently orchestrated

I don’t think it was okay to build anything on a burial ground! Not that it has anything to do with the tornado 🌪️ but it’s very disrespected

It’s a very bad tornado but Moore, OK; Joplin, MO; Xenia, OH; Jarrell, TX; Waco, TX also saw unfathomable damage.

What an amazing recovery effort. The amount of organization and communication required in the aftermath must be overwhelming.

Nowadays burnetts mound is used by younger people drinking and smoking up there, and downtown topeka still has old abandoned buildings that were hit by the tornado

I was 11 years old in 1966. The tornado had already gone through Topeka and we watched it follow the Shunga creek eastward. It became white and slowly disappeared. We lived east of town near Tecumseh, Kansas. We then immediately drove into town to check on Grandmother and Great-Aunt in East Topeka. We did have a hard time getting around town due to electrical lines on the ground. I remember a house with a tree in the middle of it. Washburn University had beautiful old trees before the tornado. Still had newly planted trees and temporary classrooms when I attended there in 1973.

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The best tornado documentary I have seen. I had no idea about this event and I'm a tornado watching guy!

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I was 18 and just returned from Topeka to our base at Forbes. We watched the cloud make its way to Topeka. Nothing could stop it. We were called immediately to load onto buses to return to Topeka. We were distributed throughout the city. I was dropped off at the Schmitz distribution center which was leveled. The strange things that happens were for example, a straw being pushed through a telephone pole or the drunk who went asleep in the alley on main streets and woke up at the college. Was something I will never forget

I don’t mean any disrespect at all, but why do people act so shocked when a tornados comes to their town, in tornado alley? Yes it’s devastating but they always seem so surprised. The operator states she knew about the tornado in another town yet never thought to take preparedness with it so close? Again, acted shocked when it hits. I’m just trying to understand what they are thinking when this happens. Do people get complacent? I know many here in Florida do. They don’t pay much attention and then all hell breaks loose. The difference is that we have days of warnings. I give them respect though for having what it takes to live there in the ally, and rebuild there time and time again

I was born 2 days before in Central Oklahoma in, ironically, the County Seat of Pottawatomie County.

alrite so.. i got back into watching wwe a few weeks ago after a 12 year hiatus, originally started from 2006-2012, i got back into it cuz now all ppv at pretty much free compared to paying 60 bucks a ppv back then lol and i dont have cable but i got hulu so i can watch the shows the day after airing, i got a question about that tho, Ive noticed i havnt seen becky and rhea and the bigger names wrestle on the tv versions, is this where they been at for these past few weeks? at house shows? lol, ive only seen rhea in segments, cant wait to see how her and becky wrestle at mania

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