Do you recognize what this is? I certainly did not.
It’s a home in Mississippi that was hit by a massive and powerful tornado with 170mph winds.
A man named Bruce Gilstrap and his wife drove past this house minutes after the tornado hit.
Here’s his story from the facebook page of the National Weather Service in Jackson Mississippi:
I just stumbled across this photo. My wife and I were driving north on Old Hwy 11, unaware of the tornado, and came across this very “house” just a couple of minutes after the tornado destroyed it. Along with others, we ran to the house and found a woman crying hysterically that her parents were still in the debris. From what was a two-story house, only one bricked wall was left, and it was lying on top of her parents. We were able to dig them out, and they were in stable condition when the paramedics took them to the hospital. Amazingly, if the wall had not fallen on them, they probably would have been blown away like the rest of the house.
Wow, sounds like a miracle to me. And look at this:
This is the damage at Oak Grove High School.
Can you imagine if this tornado hit on a Monday?
Instead, the United State’s first EF-4 Tornado of the year hit on Sunday February 10, 2013. Peak winds hit 170mph. Storm investigators know this by looking at the damage left behind. There’s an incredible science to what they look at and analyze.
This was in Lamar County, Mississippi. And according to the National Weather Service the only other EF-4 tornado to hit this county was back in 1908.
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