Episode 178: The 1990 Plainfield tornado
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4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We are so used to receiving all sorts of warning on our phones - Amber alerts, COVID exposures, weather watches. One weather app on our phone is all it takes to be warned of flood conditions or upcoming storms. But in 1990, people in northeastern Illinois received absolutely no warning that a powerful late-summer tornado was about to tear their lives apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today, |
| 0:04.6 | I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. If you've been wanting to hear a particular |
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