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CELINA, Ohio The tornado screeching across southern Ohio on Monday night triggered a cellphone alert that roused Rich Schlarman. He ignored it. Then came another. That was enough to persuade him to hurry his 83-year-old mother toward the basement.
We only made it down about four steps when I heard a loud boom, Mr. Schlarman said. If we hadnt made it down as far as we had, we would probably not have made it.
On Tuesday, his home was a shambles: walls bent, doors tilted, the roof gone another house crippled amid a stretch of severe weather that has tormented communities from the Rocky Mountains to the Mid-Atlantic in recent weeks.
Now the severe weather had come to Celina, a city of about 10,000 people about 60 miles northwest of Dayton, causing the kind of devastation that has left state after state with ruined buildings and grieving families this spring.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/11-straight-days-of-tornadoes-have-us-approaching-uncharted-territory/ar-AAC2Hz5?li=BBnb7Kz
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,931 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)All is well. I wonder if this is going to change any minds in the red states. I don't want any harm to come to anybody, but it seems to me that weather is getting more extreme everywhere, especially in this part of the country. You would think some people would eventually wake up and realize that this is not just a one-off.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,505 posts)of the damages there as well as for this eight-state outbreak:
At least 130 injured as tornadoes touch down; Ohio man killed
By Ben Deeter, The Columbus Dispatch @BenDeeter
By Beth Burger, The Columbus Dispatch @ByBethBurger
Posted at 12:40 PM Updated at 6:04 PM
Read here: https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190528/at-least-130-injured-as-tornadoes-touch-down-ohio-man-killed
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Celina, in Mercer County in western Ohio, and communities near Dayton bore the brunt of the storm. Theres areas that truly look like a war zone, Celina Mayor Jeffrey Hazel said Tuesday.
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Storm reports posted online by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Storm Prediction Center showed that 14 suspected tornadoes touched down in Indiana, 11 in Colorado and nine in Ohio. Six were reported in Iowa, five in Nebraska, four in Illinois and three in Minnesota, with one in Idaho.
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Outbreaks of 50 or more tornadoes have happened 63 times in U.S. history, with three instances on record of more than 100 twisters, said Patrick Marsh of the Storm Prediction Center. That includes a deadly April 27, 2011, super outbreak of 173 tornadoes.
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