Tornado hit close to home tonight

[A55VA6]

Just thought I'd share this with you all!

I live in Northern Illinois and tonight while I was eating dinner, the tornado sirens started going off. The news said it was headed towards Rochelle, which is maybe a 20 minute drive from me, but thankfully it stayed south of where I live. Right now they're saying 1 person is dead, 7 injured, and a lot of homes and some businesses were destroyed.

Here's a couple videos I found of it:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7BL8fFNmds


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didkQXhjeVQ

 

[Dieter the Brock]

Damn / glad to hear you're safe
That thing looks scary

 

[Memento]

Glad to hear that you're safe. Tornadoes are no joke.

Definitely keeping the people affected in my heart.

 

[ChrisW]

Guy I work with in Downtown Chicago has family in Rochelle. He's going to clean up early tomorrow morning.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Whoa. Scary deal.

Glad you are safe

 

[Angry Ram]

Holy shit yo. Being in tornado alley myself, they really are beautiful but scary. There was one about a block from my house a few years ago. Tore the roof off the grocery store there. Glad you are safe.

 

[Pancake]

Glad your safe and sound. That must be a scary feeling when you hear those sirens go off.

First time I heard one of those tornado sirens I was in Mitchell Nebraska visiting my grand parents and I thought world war III had started. Luckily it was only a test run of the system.

 

[A55VA6]

Thanks guys!

Normally I just blow off the tornado watches and warnings around here because we get them so damn much but nothing ever happens, so I was pretty surprised when I could actually see the funnel cloud from my house and then hearing about the damage it caused.

 

[Force16X]

glad to hear you're safe and well. my only experience with a tornado was the F-4 in Albion Pa in 1985. it did major damage to that town , and at the time I lived 25 miles away (to the north in Erie) and while it was on the ground it rained so hard where I lived, i couldnt see outside my front door. I cant imagine what those people went through in Albion that day.