On August 28, 1990 an EF5 tornado struck Kendall and Will Counties in Illinois, it killed 29 and injured 350 people, leveling the school in Plainfield, Illinois except for the one hallway where students had just taken cover moments prior to the school completely coming apart. It is the only EF5 to ever strike in …
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Andrea’s Corner: Remain Strong-The Moore Oklahoma Tornado
It is said by people who tally such things that there are around 1000 tornadoes annually in the continental U.S., and that the recent EF5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma was only the 59th such tornado since 1950. That’s an average of less than one per year, meaning that this unimaginably powerful type of tornado is very, …
