Aftermath of a 2am tornado

[Stormdancing]

I live in SW Indiana. Sunday morning a F3 tornado hit the east side of Evansville (10 miles west of my home) and Newburgh (small burb tacked on the east side of Evansville). 22 people lost their lives, including families of 3 and 4 members, many injured and countless homes destroyed. It also demolished Ellis Park, a large thorobred racetrack. Our community has pulled together and continues to try and put lives and homes back together. The entire area is under National Guard and curfew orders. No one is allowed in or near the area except rescue personel and verified home owners.
Here are some pictures from our local paper
http://web.courierpress.com/slideshows/110705_Tornado1/Slideshow.swf
http://web.courierpress.com/slideshows/110705_Tornado2/Slideshow.swf
http://web.courierpress.com/slideshows/110705_Tornado3/Slideshow.swf
http://web.courierpress.com/slideshows/110805_Tornado4/Slideshow.swf
http://web.courierpress.com/slideshows/110805_Tornado5/Slideshow.swf

If you have never seen the devestation and power of a tornado, you should take a look at these photos. There is no time to prepare or pack belongings, it's over in a matter of seconds.

Dana

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[JohnR]

That storm woke me up! Though we didn't get the tornadoes up here in Louisville, KY, I remember the power of them.

I have a friend who lives down there and luckily they are fine.

[Stormdancing]

That storm woke me up! Though we didn't get the tornadoes up here in Louisville, KY, I remember the power of them.

I have a friend who lives down there and luckily they are fine.
It was something else. They are finding debris 80 miles away. I'm glad your friends are ok.

Nice to see someone else from this area on Dgrin.

Dana

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I didn't have to register anything... hmmm... it just let me in

Thank you for sharing...

I also noticed that there is still humor in all of this... one of the pictures had a house (What was left of it) with writing on the door "Chicken Little Was Right"

I pray they are able to recover their lives.

Steven

[Lee Massey]

I didn't have to register either. Excellent set of photos... My hopes and prayers are with the affected families and friends....

Thanks for sharing...

Lee


22 people lost their lives, including families of 3 and 4 members, many injured and countless homes destroyed.

If you have never seen the devestation and power of a tornado, you should take a look at these photos. There is no time to prepare or pack belongings, it's over in a matter of seconds.

Dana

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paperStorm it's odd. They all worked perfectly for me, been meaning to comeback and say thanks for putting the link up. I copied it (hope you don't mind) and put it on a local Australian forum of horse and dog owning people. Initially no-one could open it, we were offered some inaccessible stuff from the Courier homepage instead.

Then I went into the header of each link, and added the underscores and words and numbers and Voila it has worked beautifully for us. So again thanks, and passed-on thanx from some horse owners in Australia who appreciated seeing your links.

The devastation is horrifying. One thing that does come through strongly is when this happens the importance people have put on saving family photographs, above everything. We live not in a tornado area but a severe bushfire risk area. It has given us a prompt to do more backing-up off-site.

[ian408]

Thanks for posting.

Ian

[Stormdancing]

Everyone should take heed and back up photos regularly. When people are hit with something like this and have nothing left, just like the people in the hurricanes, these small momentos mean so much. One photograph of a man holding his newborn baby was found over 80 miles away from here. He has since been reunited with the photo, which is especially important to him as his wife died in the tornado and his home is completely gone.


The thorobred track is in it's off season. Many people stay and live on the grounds to train. There were only 158 horses on the grounds and 3 were killed with many other injured. The Humane Society is also on site to try and rescue lots pets and reunite them with their owners. They have found everything from snakes to ferrets and the usual cats and dogs. Foster homes are keeping them until the owners can be found.

Dana