The Black Wind

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Chase the storm until it chases you. Tornadoes! They don’t look like they do in the movies. When you’re in the path of one, all you’ll see is a wall of black wind. This week, Snap is heading directly into the monster’s maw to chase storms that should be left alone.

Big thanks to Craig Wolter! Thank you, Windom High School... especially Sarah, Benny, and Danielle. Crystal Frank, another student on the trip, shared her home video with us. This story would not have been possible without her.

Many thanks also to Sue, for sharing your story with us. Sue’s memoir is titled The Lake Turned Upside Down.

Produced by John Fecile, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot.

If you listened to our radio broadcast and want to find out what happened to the 24 people that shut themselves in a beer cooler to wait out one of the strongest tornadoes in recorded history, you can listen to the full length version of the "Eye of the Storm" story here.

Season 15 - Episode 38

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0:00.0	Snap Studios.
0:10.0	It's Madeline Baron from In the Dark.
0:13.0	I spent the past four years investigating a crime.
0:17.0	When you're driving down this road,
0:18.0	I'd plan on killing somebody.
0:20.0	A rough.
0:22.0	A four-year investigation, hundreds of interviews, thousands of documents, all in an effort to see what the U.S. military has kept from the public for years.
0:32.0	Did you think that a war crime had been committed? has kept from the public for years.
0:32.5	Did you think that a war crime had been committed?
0:35.5	I don't have any opinion on that.
0:37.9	Season 3 of In the Dark is available now,
0:40.9	wherever you get your podcasts. The Arigora, the Plains People, they call it the Black Wind.
0:55.0	To the Rappahole, they're the work of the whirlwind woman.
1:00.0	Dernados have always held a special place in the American imagination because more than happen here than anywhere else.
1:08.0	75% of all tornadoes occur in the continental United States.
1:13.0	12 hundred a year, dozens of people perish every tornado season, but some folk,
1:18.0	when they catch sight of nature's vortex, they don't run away. They run toward. Rule Michigan. As a kid in school, the film they make us watch with a pretty lady on
1:42.2	a yellow dress.
1:44.0	It instructs us that if you see a tornado,
1:48.0	go immediately to the basement
1:50.0	or to the middle of a sturdy building or to a ditch, but no one in a trailer park has a basement,
2:01.0	a sturdy building or a ditch. I look up from our front yard and off in the far
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