Tornado hits Ft Leonard Wood New Year's Eve

[missourithunder]

Not sure if this is the right place to post photos but here's a look at the base after the tornado hit New Year's Eve. 159 buildings damaged, 41 base housing homes completely destroyed. Amazingly, no one killed or hurt because most Soldiers and their families were out of town for the holidays.

MT

 

[Nissan197]

Pretty rare for a tornado in December. I am glad no one was killed. It is amazing what kind of damage can occur. I went to Greensburg, KS after their 2007 EF5 tornado and was just amazed at the destruction.

 

[MoKelly]

Same day same storm system produced tornados in St. Louis (Sunset Hills and Fenton).

I had never seen up close and personal the damage tornados can do to property and trees.

I never want to see it again.

MoKelly

 

[missourithunder]

"I never want to see it again."

I couldn't agree more.

MT

 

[20 20]

That was one of my 1st homes away from home{basic training} Good to see there were no deaths.

 

[flusher]

Not sure if this is the right place to post photos but here's a look at the base after the tornado hit New Year's Eve. 159 buildings damaged, 41 base housing homes completely destroyed. Amazingly, no one killed or hurt because most Soldiers and their families were out of town for the holidays.

MT

MT: Glad you're OK.
That same set of storms tossed off a bunch of tornados in the St. Louis area. One of them hit about 1.5 miles from my brother's place in south STL county. No damage to his property, but a number of houses and a strip mall were destoyed.

The last Jan tornado, IIRC, in STL was Jan1967. We were living in St. Ann, an STL suburb near the airport. That sucker hit in the dark about 6pm and tore up houses and a Little League park about 2 blocks from our place. My wife was 8 months pregnant at the time. We survived.

One of the reasons I relocated to CA 20 years ago.

 

[missourithunder]

greetings flusher,
sounds like you were in more danger than us. Glad you and the wife survived. Coming from Colorado, we knew the dangers of Missouri tornados and still chose to retire here. Now I'm starting to wonder if we'd been better off staying in Colorado. Yes, there are tornados there too but nowhere near where we lived. The only thing we sometimes worried about living in the Rockies were the avalanches but they were so few and far between.

MT

 

[Ammer]

This is not the right palce to pst photoes. you can try it in photo gallary.

 

[missourithunder]

hAmmer,
Thanks for the advice but I like think I'll keep the photos right where they're at.

MT

 

[LBrown59]

This is not the right palce to pst photoes. you can try it in photo gallary.

Pictures are welcome anywhere cause we all love them no matter where they appear.