Episode 41: The Tri-State Tornado

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🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It's 1925 and you leave the house on a Wednesday morning three weeks before Easter ready to go to work delivering mail in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. While passing near a rural field in your horse and buggy, you see the telltale swirl of a newly formed tornado touching down. But what you and no one else in the Midwest know is that you just saw the birth of the deadliest tornado in American history.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise, and I'd like to take care of a little housekeeping first.
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0:44.1	And I'm going to keep this short and simple today, since it's taking me a little longer
0:48.1	than I would have liked to record this episode.
0:51.2	So with that in mind, thank you for listening and for being patient and welcome to disaster area.
1:01.4	Episode 41, the Tri-State Tornado, March 18, 1925. Approximately 750 deceased, thousands injured.
1:15.9	This is no disaster. It is a crucifixion. A crying grandmother looking through the bodies of dead school
1:21.7	children at the Carbondale, Illinois National Guard Armory following the Tri-State Tornado.
1:31.3	If you don't like the weather here, stick around for 10 minutes and it'll change. It's an old saying that depending on where you live can get a lot of use.
1:36.3	On March 18th, 1925, the forecast in Missouri called for rain and strong winds,
1:41.3	but for the most part spring was in the air, and the weather was
1:45.1	the nicest it had been since the year started. In a rural area in central Missouri, a male man riding
1:52.1	along in his horse and buggy spotted something few people at the time got to see, the birth of a tornado.
1:58.6	A wiggling worm of a funnel stretched towards the earth once, twice, then another time or two before it finally stuck.
2:06.6	What started as a relatively small tornado would soon enough grow until it turned into one of the deadliest storms of its kind in recorded history.
2:16.6	Now, when I mention the 1920s, you probably have an image in your head.
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