Episode 152 Midwest Tornado Experience
Knitting Pipeline
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🗓️ 25 November 2013
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On November 17, 2013 at 11:05 AM an EF-4 tornado crossed diagonally through our town of Washington IL. Other towns in the Midwest were also affected but our town was most heavily damaged with over 1,000 homes demolished or rendered uninhabitable. Our home was not harmed, nor were the homes of my co-hosts, Sarah and Bronwyn. Bronwyn's home was closest to the path of the tornado. My mother-in-law's home was demolished but she was not home at the time the tornado hit. In this episode I talk about my experience that day and some observations from the rest of the week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Knitting Pipeline. This is episode 152. It is the 24th of November 2013. |
| 0:11.1 | Thank you for joining me today. This is not a knitting episode. I thought the |
| 0:17.0 | episode this past week was going to be about the wonderful retreat that we had in Alfred Main. |
| 0:25.0 | I returned home on Thursday night, |
| 0:28.0 | and then two days later, three days later, |
| 0:31.0 | on Sunday, November 17th, a little after 11 a.m. a series of tornadoes came through |
| 0:37.8 | Illinois. Our town of Washington, Illinois was hardest hit. |
| 0:44.0 | We are not the only people who saw devastation from this, |
| 0:48.2 | but it is the worst. |
| 0:51.3 | The tornado cut a path through town from the southwest to the northeast |
| 0:57.0 | diagonally. It took out many homes. There are over a thousand homes that are completely destroyed or |
| 1:08.0 | uninhabitable. That means probably about000 to 4,000 people who are without their homes. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm just going to tell you a little bit about what happened from my viewpoint. |
| 1:22.0 | I have been blogging about this if you subscribe to my blog feed which is |
| 1:27.1 | Knitting pipeline.com. It has been cathartic for me to write things down each day at the end of the day, most of the time at the end of the day. |
| 1:37.3 | Sometimes I've just been too tired. |
| 1:40.3 | But it started on Sunday morning, November 17th. We were actually at our church, which is Crossroads and United Methodist Church. |
| 1:49.0 | And at about a quarter to 11, several of us got messages in our little group. We got messages on our |
| 1:57.3 | cell phone that said that a tornado was on the ground or sighted. I'm not sure exactly what the message said. |
| 2:06.1 | Bob and I foolishly got in our car and drove home. We weren't the only ones. There were others doing |
| 2:11.7 | the same, but the majority of people were going into the |
| 2:15.3 | storm shelter or actually the kitchen and bathrooms in the interior of the facility. |
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