Dozens injured as 22 tornadoes reported in central Illinois

[JonLP24]

Source: ABC News

A rash of tornadoes broke out Saturday afternoon and evening across central Illinois, injuring at least 30 people and turning homes into piles of splintered wood.

There were 22 tornadoes reported to the National Weather Service on Saturday, all in central Illinois. The offices in Lincoln, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, will conduct storm surveys on Sunday to confirm the intensity and track of the tornadoes.

At least 30 people were injured in Christian County, Illinois, just southeast of Springfield, where many of the storms hit.

Mike Crews, emergency manager for Christian County, said there were no more than 30 people transported to hospitals. There are still task forces out with ambulances to make sure there are no more people injured or trapped. No fatalities have been reported.



Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/dozens-injured-22-tornadoes-reported-central-illinois/story?id=59555813

[LW1977]

1. What climate change?

[Achilleaze]

2. republican lies about climate chaos are profoundly dangerous

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[rurallib]

3. Yep we had family in the watch zones

We were just north of the watch zones - in Iowa - in freaking December for gawd's sake.

[OnlinePoker]

4. From 1950 to 2016 (this report was done in 2017) there were 57 December tornadoes in Illinois

To have 22 in one day is remarkable.

https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/Tornado/ilplots.htm

[displacedtexan]

8. Fingers of God

That's what they call them there. My daughter lives about an hour north of Springfield, and I taught in a consolidated school district there. We would stand on the loading dock and watch four or five twisters form at the base of a huge cloud.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. My grandmother was born in Mason City, Illinois.

Near that?

[displacedtexan]

11. Bloomington/Normal

My daughter moved back there when she married her 2nd grade sweetheart. They reconnected through Facebook after college.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. That's where my grandmother went to school, back when it was called....

Illinois State Normal University, if I'm reading the Wiki correctly.

[displacedtexan]

13. It was a Normal teachers college.

The town was named after the school. Abraham Lincoln and his law partner, Jessie Fell, had an office downtown.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. That makes more sense.

She was born in 1895, so she would have been attending school around the start of WWI. Her family thought that girls should be educated too.

[icymist]

5. I have lots of family in Central Illinois so I called my Dad.

His chief complaint was that his football game was interrupted with 'weather broadcasts' for four hours! "Who the hell wants to watch some guy drive around I-55 for four hours?" he tells me. Yup, that's my Dad!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Hmmm. My grandmother was born in Mason City, Illinois.

Near that?

Yeah, I know; I made the same post elsewhere in this thread.

[beachbum bob]

6. Tornado heading straight to where we live and veered

Away enough to miss us by 4 miles. Had it hit us, the devastation in lives and damage would have been record setting. West end neighborhood of Decatur,

[icymist]

7. The Taylorville tornado looks like the worst one from last night. I'm glad no-one died.

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