Tornado
(2010)
June 17th, 2010 MN Tornados - Fox News
" June 21, 2010 — This is the opening clip from our newscast from June 18th, 2010, with stories about the tornadoes that devastated Minnesota towns such as Wadena and Mentor."
YouTube Video: Minnesota Tornadoes 2010 – Tornadoes in Minnesota, Damage, Death Toll,
June 18th, 2010 cnmnewsnetwork.com
"YouTUBE Video Minnesota Tornadoes 2010 – Tornadoes in Minnesota, Damage, Death Toll The death toll is currently at 3 following a slew of tornadoes in Minnesota. There were 36 tornado reports in all, and they caused mass devastation. This was a record day for this type of activity in the state if all reports are confirmed.
The previous record was 27 twisters in one day, set in 1992. Two people were killed in their homes, and one person was killed at a gas station. The man who was killed at a gas station has yet to be identified.
Minnesota is only the latest state to fall victim to mother nature. Michigan and Ohio experienced massive damage from tornadoes last month, and Arkansas and Oklahoma just experienced flash flooding. In addition, massive flooding in April caused billions of dollars in damages to Nashville, and the historic Opryland area remains devastated and closed until mid-November.
As more information about the Minnesota tornado damage surfaces, we will pass that information on to you."
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Minnesota Tornadoes Kill 3, Injure Dozens citizentube.com
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Wadena, MN Tornado Damage
"June 18, 2010 — Following an afternoon outbreak of 21 tornadoes across the Red River valley, storm chaser Eric Whitehill contributed this video surveying the damage in Wadena, MN. (June 17, 2010)"
Wadena MN Tornado (Minnesota Tornadoes pictures and video) news updates., freakygossip.com
"...The Police and the National Guard soldiers blocked the entrance to tornado smashed neighborhoods in Wadena MN as the northwestern Minnesota town prepared to begin cleaning up after the destructive storms. Wadena is a town of about 4,300 people and it lays 70-miles southeast of Fargo...
Tornado Lands Bluffton Calf in Basement , Updated at: 06/25/2010 9:31 AM | KSAX.com
"..."My boyfriend [Gene Schwab] comes in and goes, 'Sam, get in the basement.' And I go 'No, hang on, hang on.' And he goes, 'Get in the basement now!" tornado victim Samantha Wittstruck said.
"I looked at him; her cousin [Manly Beach], and he's like, 'this ain't happening, this ain't happening. And I'm like, 'Yeah, it's happening," tornado victim Gene Schwab said.
"Looked over and there was a cow on top of my cousin," tornado victim Manly Beach said.
"I went to crawl out, but I couldn't because it was so heavy on top of me," Wittstruck, 16, said. "So I looked over and there had been a cow that was laying from my back all the way up, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!'"
"I was like, 'Holy crap, it is just like the movies.' You see cows flying around and there was one that landed in the basement with us, pretty scary," Schwab, 18, said.
"[Samantha] slapped it a couple times, it got up," Beach, 20, said.
"It had a big hole in its head and it was bleeding like crazy," Wittstruck said. "I was like, smackin it, [and yelling] 'Get off me! Get off me! Get off me!'"
"We were just trying to get it away from us, it just kept trying to cuddle with us," Schwab said. "He's probably scared too."
"Kinda weird, you know," Beach said. "I mean, I never thought a cow would land on there."
"Afterwards, we were at the hospital and I was like, 'We need to get the cow out of our basement," Wittstruck said.
"They pulled it out, I guess with a four-wheeler and a rope, and then there was people behind it trying to pull it up out of the basement, so he's ok," Schwab said. "They took all of the cows and moved them out of here."
"The left hind hoof got sliced maybe a couple inches long I suppose, and then the left side of its head was swollen," Dale Mann, the calf's owner, said.
"I heard he was still alive, so ... He's still kickin it," Wittstruck said.
"If I can give it another round of shots, I'll watch it a few more days, and put it out with the rest of [the cattle], and it should be fine," Mann said.
Mann said the four-month-old calf doesn't have a name but thought "Lucky" might be fitting.
"Well, you always wonder, you hear goofy things happening," Troy Manselle, the owner of the now-demolished home said. "Something like that, you just wonder how it even got there you know. I don't know if it just fell out of the sky or what but, it's pretty amazing what those tornadoes will do," he said.
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Wadena Back in Recovery Mode after Day of Rest, Posted at: 06/28/2010 6:00 PM | KSAX.com
"WADENA, MINN. - After a day of rest, Wadena storm victims and volunteers are back in disaster recovery mode.
Dump trucks have hauled more than 1,800 loads of tree debris since the June 17 tornado hit the Wadena area, and about 2,600 volunteers have come to help with clean up efforts.
Judy Jacobs, a Minnesota Department of Transportation representative who has been working with the city for the past week, said many Wadena storm victims are working hard but shouldn't be afraid to ask for help, and should remember to think of their personal safety and stay hydrated.
"The amazing spirit and the resiliency of this community is something that I am in awe of every day," Jacobs said. "They've been really traumatized and yet they're pulling together as a community, they're helping their neighbors. I get calls all the time from someone saying, 'I haven't seen my neighbor out. I don't know if she's getting meals delivered to her.' We're hearing that kind of thing from people."
To make a donation, visit http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Wadena-Tornado-Relief-Fund.
Written for the web by Joe Nelson.
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