@Beauty4Aspies Yes WIBW is still on the air today...I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was seven years old and remembering that I had just put on boots and rain coat to go feed my pet rabbit. I was on my way out the door when we heard the sirens sound. We immediately took cover the basement and waited it out. It sounded like a jet airplane was landing on our roof it was so loud.
@LJBevensII I remember the skies had an eerie pink and orange tint to it and we could see clear path from the mound across the VA hospital and Kansas Neurological Institute all the way up to the above mentioned shopping center. Washburn university was only a few blocks away and the path ran straight through there leveling everything in it's path.
@LJBevensII It wan't until the next day when my father who was in dental school in Kansas City returned and we drove around to check on other relatives as there was no phone service and little information was available for checking on family. I remember also helping my family clean up the debris from the yard which filled more than three large military dump trucks.
@LJBevensII We were down there for what seemed hours yet it was all clear in a short while. When we came up from the basement we were thrilled and surprised that there was absolutely no damage to the house. Not even a broken windo or a lifted shingle on the roof. The grocery store and shopping center along with a gas station about three hundred feet from our back door was not so lucky. All had been leveled to the ground and not a shard of glass left in any frames.
@LJBevensII There was in the front of our home a very new 2"x6"x14' cut ceiling joist laying diagonally across our front lawn. It was presumed that this had come from the apartment construction on Burnetts mound. This was actually the closest to any damage that our house would have sustained as it lay only ten feet or so from the large picture window in our front room.
No place like Kansas in springtime. We had a very active year a few years ago. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Seemed like every single strong storm dropped a funnel or wall cloud & many of them dropped cyclones. Tornado warnings every storm. Same year Joplin got hit I believe. I've never seen a more active tornado season than that one.
ikr? I've lived in Topeka, KS my entire life and just reading about the Topeka tornado and the damage it did to my hometown is just chilling because you don't think it would happen to you (I'm watching the documentary "June 8th, The Topeka Tornado")
I live in Topeka, Kansas and I know what you mean. Not that I want a big tornado to hit but I'm a big weather nut so I love thunderstorms...I'd love to see a tornado...even just off in a field, not destroying a town.
@Beauty4Aspies
Yes WIBW is still on the air today...I remember the day as if it were yesterday. I was seven years old and remembering that I had just put on boots and rain coat to go feed my pet rabbit. I was on my way out the door when we heard the sirens sound. We immediately took cover the basement and waited it out. It sounded like a jet airplane was landing on our roof it was so loud.
@LJBevensII
I remember the skies had an eerie pink and orange tint to it and we could see clear path from the mound across the VA hospital and Kansas Neurological Institute all the way up to the above mentioned shopping center. Washburn university was only a few blocks away and the path ran straight through there leveling everything in it's path.
@LJBevensII
It wan't until the next day when my father who was in dental school in Kansas City returned and we drove around to check on other relatives as there was no phone service and little information was available for checking on family. I remember also helping my family clean up the debris from the yard which filled more than three large military dump trucks.
I was 6 yrs old and my dad was stationed at Forbes AFB. We watched the tornado from the air base sitting in our car. I’ll never forget that memory.
@LJBevensII
We were down there for what seemed hours yet it was all clear in a short while. When we came up from the basement we were thrilled and surprised that there was absolutely no damage to the house. Not even a broken windo or a lifted shingle on the roof. The grocery store and shopping center along with a gas station about three hundred feet from our back door was not so lucky. All had been leveled to the ground and not a shard of glass left in any frames.
@LJBevensII There was in the front of our home a very new 2"x6"x14' cut ceiling joist laying diagonally across our front lawn. It was presumed that this had come from the apartment construction on Burnetts mound. This was actually the closest to any damage that our house would have sustained as it lay only ten feet or so from the large picture window in our front room.
No place like Kansas in springtime. We had a very active year a few years ago. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Seemed like every single strong storm dropped a funnel or wall cloud & many of them dropped cyclones. Tornado warnings every storm.
Same year Joplin got hit I believe. I've never seen a more active tornado season than that one.
ikr? I've lived in Topeka, KS my entire life and just reading about the Topeka tornado and the damage it did to my hometown is just chilling because you don't think it would happen to you (I'm watching the documentary "June 8th, The Topeka Tornado")
Is WIBW still around today?
@LJBevensII Oh my, that must've been scary.
how old were you then?
Getting to be that time of year again.
I live in Topeka, Kansas and I know what you mean. Not that I want a big tornado to hit but I'm a big weather nut so I love thunderstorms...I'd love to see a tornado...even just off in a field, not destroying a town.