RichmondRedskin88 Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak in the Midwest - 50 mobile home in one town in Indiana destroyed. Search and rescue. - Bunch of twisters in Illinois and Kentucky it seems. - Ohio getting ready to face the storms Cities at risk. Detriot, Cleveland, Louisville, Chicago, Cincy, Indianapolis. TWC twitter gone nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 just turned to CNN after reading your post. HOLY **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 My dad was in college in Ohio during the Super Outbreak of 1974 that spawned 24 F4 and 6 F5 tornadoes. Tornadoes to me are by far the scariest natural disaster because you have barely any warning time. A true definition of how helpless we are against nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Some of the witnesses in Washington, IL (~100 miles SW of Chicago) are saying 200-300 houses were destroyed. It was pretty rainy and windy in Chicago but luckily the storm veered south. A couple of my friends who are Ravens fans were texting me (I live in Chicago) to ask if it was the real deal or the NFL being overly cautious (they delayed the Ravens-Bears game by 2 hours) and it was definitely the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Some of the witnesses in Washington, IL (~100 miles SW of Chicago) are saying 200-300 houses were destroyed. It was pretty rainy and windy in Chicago but luckily the storm veered south. A couple of my friends who are Ravens fans were texting me (I live in Chicago) to ask if it was the real deal or the NFL being overly cautious (they delayed the Ravens-Bears game by 2 hours) and it was definitely the real deal. Have you seen the CNN iwitness video of that thing, it was a half mile wide beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 This thread need pics, I've seen plenty on twitter. Insane stuff. I'd post them but I'm on an iPad and that process is painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 thankfully not too many reported deaths so far, it is certainly a lot of destruction http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/17/us/gallery/midwest-storms/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Seeing someone's house in ruins is hard. Seeing entire neighborhoods that are just rubble as far as the eye can see is hard to imagine. Where do you even begin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeWolf990 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 dont understand why that game was even played today. Really sad the power the NFL holds over peoples lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 dont understand why that game was even played today. Really sad the power the NFL holds over peoples lives. Right? I was reading/hearing tornado warnings possible in that area about 3 hours before kickoff. What the **** were they thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Right? I was reading/hearing tornado warnings possible in that area about 3 hours before kickoff. What the **** were they thinking? I had the Bears pre-game on while I was cleaning up around the apartment they already knew about the touchdown near Peoria before the game even started. The local news team cut into the CBS pre-game and they had their field reporter from the Bears' game talking about the weather. She was actually surprised when she saw the Ravens run onto the field. I agree that it was really dumb to start right then. To play 30 minutes of football (~10 minutes of clock time) and then try to get almost 70k people to evacuate into the concourse is incredibly dumb. They could've just delayed the start and had MUCH more time to get people out of the stands. They're saying there are 6 dead (mostly downstate) and a number of parts of counties in central IL have declared disaster zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGoonie55 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Damage on that scale doesn't compute in my head. I cannot imagine how the horror, fear, sadness, all rolled into one overwhelming emotion must feel. My heart goes out to these people. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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