The 1974 tornado was terrifying, but it taught me an important lesson

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Once I was in eighth grade, and my sister Valerie was a junior at Ballard Excessive College. We arrived dwelling about an hour previous to the 1974 twister hitting our dwelling.

The birds stopped chirping and our household canine uncharacteristically did not need to exit within the yard. Our dad known as dwelling and warned of the information of storm harm in Brandenburg, it was heading our means. We noticed an enormous oak tree in our yard flapping within the wind like a twig .

With Dick Gilbert on a radio, we hurried to the basement simply in time to really feel a dramatic change in air stress adopted a loud sound like a freight prepare and airborne particles smashing into basement home windows. The violent shaking of our home made us concern for our lives till all of a sudden it ended.