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  • čas přidán 7. 04. 2024
  • Minnesota's Deadliest Tornadoes is the history of three tornadoes in Rochester, St.Cloud, and Appleton, Minnesota. Weather gurus Paul Douglas and Mark Seeley help Mary Lahammer tell the human impact of these severe storms.
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Komentáře • 53

  • @MarcHoltMinneapolis
    @MarcHoltMinneapolis Před 4 měsíci +17

    Great video! I'm happy to see you sharing their stories. These narratives could have easily slipped into obscurity, but you're ensuring they remain alive and appreciated.

  • @carterlearned8796
    @carterlearned8796 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Watching from down in Saint Peter - the history of the tornado in ‘98 here is rich and connects this population. Hope to see a doc about it, too! The way the MN community came together to help this area was extraordinary.

  • @ms_cartographer
    @ms_cartographer Před 2 měsíci +1

    I'm so sorry for your grandmother's loss. That must have been so difficult for her. She was such a beautiful and strong person. And what a beautiful life she lived. ❤

  • @randytracy1742
    @randytracy1742 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Great video! There should be other stories like the 1965 twin cities outbreak that could be told-maybe they should do it in other videos! 😮😮😮😮😮

  • @WhiteArrow76
    @WhiteArrow76 Před 4 měsíci +17

    My hometown of New Richmond WI was struck by an EF5 tornado on June 12, 1899, and at 117+ dead it ranks the deadliest in Wisconsin and 9th in the nation.

    • @CheeseCurdBandit
      @CheeseCurdBandit Před 4 měsíci +4

      I live between Boardman and New Richmond. From what I understand, the tornado you referenced went right through the spot where my house stands today.

    • @WhiteArrow76
      @WhiteArrow76 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@CheeseCurdBandit It was following the Omaha railroad line (which is now County road A), and at that point the funnel was roughly 500 yards wide.

    • @DianeBianchi_MnWx
      @DianeBianchi_MnWx Před 4 měsíci +1

      We have found newspaper articles on line of this. A horrific event recounted in those articles.

    • @WhiteArrow76
      @WhiteArrow76 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@DianeBianchi_MnWx It was a crippling blow to the city. Of the 117 fatalities, 70 were New Richmond residents. When you lose that many people in a town of only 1,800, it's a collective trauma. Many of the towns prominent business leaders and owners were killed. Altogether, 18 women were widowed and 45 children lost their fathers. A number of elderly residents from the towns pioneer generation were killed, the oldest was a 93 year old woman found still in her bed with every bone broken. The dead also included 26 children under the age of 16, among them a 10 year old boy whose body was never found.

    • @noahblack5647
      @noahblack5647 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@CJCody2006 Kinda similar to the 1902 Goliad TX EF4 Tornado. That caused 114 fatalities, in a town of about 1.6k nowadays, there is no census for that year, so it's hard to determine how small it was at that time. Probably less than 1000. And Goliad is also very significant to Texas history, it's where the Goliad massacre took place. Where under general Santa Anna's orders, about 450 Texans were killed.

  • @elizabetherne556
    @elizabetherne556 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I’m a bit disappointed they didn’t talk about the Tracy tornado. Multiple people died in that one. I lived in that town for a year right next to a monument that was built for it. Even in 1999 people were still affected by it and talked about it.

    • @ofcourseillintroduceyoutowarre
      @ofcourseillintroduceyoutowarre Před 2 měsíci

      Two of the most dramatic tornado photographs were taken of the Tracy, MN tornado. One of three F5 tornadoes to strike the upper Midwest in less than a month in the late spring of 1968.

  • @WanderingRoe
    @WanderingRoe Před 3 měsíci +1

    This was really well done, incredibly sad and terrifying to think of. I’d read about the Sauk Rapids tornado a few times before. There are so many horrifying tornado events in this country’s history.

  • @SarahWestTheXanaduQueen
    @SarahWestTheXanaduQueen Před měsícem +1

    My Homestate of Massachusetts did get some Tornadoes, the deadliest was the one in Worcester in June 1953, killing 94 people. Just as Tragic as Minnesota's deadliest tornadoes.

  • @rickkearn7100
    @rickkearn7100 Před 4 měsíci

    Top-shelf documentary. Excellent content, quality, production and presentation. A great job by all who produced it. I was touched by the personal nature of the subject for Mary Lahammer. I wish our country was completely populated by people like those whose stories were told. Their perseverance and heartiness in the face of these tragedies is evident in their progeny right up to today's generation.

  • @emo__runner
    @emo__runner Před 4 měsíci +1

    A couple years ago, I was in St Paul for a concert and I went to the historical museum and experienced the weather exhibit, including the tornado simulator. It actually helped me overcome my fear of tornadoes!

    • @LemonHead-sq5ws
      @LemonHead-sq5ws Před 2 měsíci

      Well that’s nothing compared to a real tornado so you should still be scared 😅

  • @DianeBianchi_MnWx
    @DianeBianchi_MnWx Před 4 měsíci +4

    While this was a good program, I was surprised you did not include the 1965 tornado outbreak in the Twin Cities where many were injured and died. It was a night of terror that many will not forget. You really need to do a program on that night, and also of New Richmond, WI in 1899.

    • @michaelistheman1533
      @michaelistheman1533 Před 4 měsíci

      New richmond was once known as " richmond", after the tornado wiped the town off the map they rebuilt town and re named it "new richmond" .. it's the story that was passed down to me from older folks

    • @useruser400
      @useruser400 Před 2 měsíci

      I lived in Anoka in 1965. I was in 5th grade but I recall that day vividly. Classic green sky. Terrifying!
      As I recall, the town of Fridley got leveled. Maybe Edina too. Very sad for them.
      It was night after the storm passed. My dad took me out for a walk around the neighborhood to see if there was any local damage. We could still see lightning off in the distance.
      The only thing I remember about that walk was the thick, sickly-sweet smell in the air. That’s when I learned all about ozone produced from the intense lightning. I’ve never smelled it that strong since.
      I’ve never researched that storm. Now I have to go look!!!!

  • @wolfofthenorthernlights
    @wolfofthenorthernlights Před 4 měsíci

    Paul Douglas is probably the most trusted and beloved weatherman (meteorologist) in Minnesota ever!

  • @brettM1
    @brettM1 Před 4 měsíci

    Great video Mary!!!! Hope you are well.

  • @calebcollins7482
    @calebcollins7482 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Hearing swift county was so weird because I'm literally in college the next county over! Pomme de terre??? I know her!

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp Před měsícem

    I love 😍 Minnesota

  • @Moonchild-bb5dr
    @Moonchild-bb5dr Před 3 měsíci

    I saw a tornado starting to twist down in Bloomington when I was a teen. Was walking to meet my kid sister bc a storm was coming. As an adult w my own kid and my mom we moved to rural Minnesota. I experienced a scary tornado that made the air pulse hard. Wild thing ever. That one hit my sisters yard in silver creek. Another most recent one killed my cat. Woke up after sleeping in and my mom said there's a storm coming. Didn't even have a chance to get the cat inside. Something must have clobbered her in the head. Had to put her down bc she was seizing and unconscious but made it home first 😢...but I knew it was a tornado by the sound of it. Sure enough I went for a drive and a small tornado skipped along across the country side. Happy it skipped over our area but twisted up some oaks 1/4 mile away

  • @marilynkirby-roach187
    @marilynkirby-roach187 Před 4 měsíci

    What a beautiful story (book) to pass down.

  • @Jojo-gg6jc
    @Jojo-gg6jc Před 4 měsíci +1

    What a sad but beautiful story,even though tragedy and loss of life, it was an inspiring story, Thank you to this family who shared their story with us. God bless all of you.🩷

  • @whoever6458
    @whoever6458 Před 4 měsíci

    Thanks for this video! I learned several things I had not known before.
    I like that the warning time for tornadoes has gotten longer and I hope the same eventually happens for earthquakes. When I was young, there would just suddenly be an earthquake and, at best with the hearing abilities of young ears, you might hear it coming if you were awake, but it didn't give you enough time to do much about it. When it comes to being close to the source of something dangerous, it doesn't warn you until you've already taken shelter, which seems similar to tornadoes that form right near you except for at least you know there's some weather coming before any tornado touches down.
    So far, I've been warned for three earthquakes: two that I didn't feel and one that I felt before they were able to send out the warnings. One of the warnings I got but didn't feel the earthquake was the result of the computer overestimating the magnitude of the earthquake and sending out the warning for a larger area than could feel it and I was in that larger area that didn't feel it. The other one I got that I didn't feel was probably one I didn't feel when it passed through because I was driving. Everyone I talked to who wasn't driving felt it. Then, for the third one that I did feel, the warning came right as I was heading for shelter because I had already felt it but it was maybe a second or two behind the actually shaking waves. That was pretty good considering that the earthquake started just a few miles from where I was.
    I'm glad tornadoes have a longer warning time because they are dangerous and damaging just if they pass near enough to you. The VAST majority of earthquakes are ones no one even feels and, of the ones that people do feel, the VAST majority of those just raise a person's heart rate and blood pressure. Even for the ones that do damage things, people are very likely to be fine if they take cover and, even if they don't, the VAST majority of people who feel the earthquake survive it even if it is really big and even if maybe their building has to be demolished because of all the damage. As buildings have become better built for the kind of motion that happens during an earthquake, you just have to be unlucky basically to die in an earthquake anymore. Then there's the fact that there really aren't that many serious earthquakes compared to how many legitimately dangerous tornadoes there are per year but I think it's a little bit similar when it comes to whether the building you're in is going to take a serious hit. Of course, tornadoes do hit outside of tornado alley and I've even seen one here in California but there have also been a few earthquakes in tornado alley and, interestingly, the largest earthquakes in the continental US have happened in Missouri.
    In any case, the strategy is similar: don't be scared but be prepared.

  • @kdrichardson5261
    @kdrichardson5261 Před 4 měsíci

    How was the sauk rapids not a ef 5? That damage was speechless. Immovable objects moved.

  • @c.nab4
    @c.nab4 Před 4 měsíci +1

    My grandfather told us about the Rochester tornado.😏

    • @2469rene
      @2469rene Před 4 měsíci

      How mayo clinic got started.

  • @joekowalski182
    @joekowalski182 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Darn I didn't think Minnesota got tornado's

    • @Quadranaut.
      @Quadranaut. Před 4 měsíci

      🫢

    • @lucianas4919
      @lucianas4919 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Minnesota definitely has tornadoes, just not to the extent that other states see.

    • @Quadranaut.
      @Quadranaut. Před 3 měsíci

      @@lucianas4919 we used too, but not anymore cuz it seems that tornado alley is moving.

  • @jacksonyon5276
    @jacksonyon5276 Před 4 měsíci

    State neighbor that gets way more tornadoes than our state. Probably not a great state to chase in though.

  • @amydavis4945
    @amydavis4945 Před 4 měsíci

    I'm curious to know how they rated these tornadoes that happened DECADES before tornadoes started getting rated? Dr. Fujita did not start rating tornadoes until 1971-2 and only RETRO rated back to 1950. The reason being was because it's impossible to rate tornadoes based on nothing but pictures and "stories", or number of deaths/injuries. Houses and structures built back in the 1800's weren't built and anchored to a foundation... most of them were "simple" wood frame structures (some weren't even "framed" at all). Pictures of damaged trees would probably be the best indicator, but even so, it could only be an "educated guess".

    • @WanderingRoe
      @WanderingRoe Před 2 měsíci

      I’m pretty sure the ratings they gave pre-Fujita tornadoes are educated guesses.

  • @alicenichols9706
    @alicenichols9706 Před 4 měsíci

    Hey come to Texas like right now 😮

  • @cmerton
    @cmerton Před 4 měsíci +3

    Does not feature tornadoes. This video features narratives of people who experienced them.

  • @shadetreader
    @shadetreader Před 4 měsíci

    Not "settlers", *invaders*.

  • @Izumi-sp6fp
    @Izumi-sp6fp Před 4 měsíci

    What the hell happened to CZcams? This is _awful_ !! Please restore it to how it looked earlier today.