Not a mile wide but I do vividly remember seeing the aftermath of the
Grand Rapids F5 tornado of April 3, 1956... a city block of trailer park
that simply wasn't there any more and many houses whose back walls had
been neatly plucked off and the contents sucked out such that they
looked like doll houses. I think it is formally called the Hudsonville
to Lakeview tornado. A 52 mile long path leaving 17 dead and 285
injured. I probably have some Kodachromes of it somewhere in my dad's
pile of slides.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/5/2011 4:09 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> If you'd had our winter, you'd have been dancing a jig while the
>> tornadoes swirled. Tornadoes? We ain't skeert of no stinking
>> tornadoes.<vbg>
>
>
> Up there in Occupied Canada, you generally don't get those mile-wide
> monsters featured in the movie "Twister". IE, "Hand of God".
>
> Growing up in Michigan, we didn't either. Mostly stove-pipes and
> shapely funnels. Moving to Iowa changes things a bit. Seeing entire
> communities reduced to water pipes sticking out of the ground is a
> bit humbling.
>
> AG
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