We live near St Joes, lost power for the week. This was the second severe storm we've had. The last one was in May and I think that one was an EF1 traveling down 80 headed East.
You must be pretty young. I know when I was about 9 there was one (so roughly 40 years ago), than in 1990 there was an F5 on August 28th that claimed 28 lives and 353 were injured here in the Plainfield/Joliet/ Crest Hill area. In April 2004 30 tornadoes formed in Utah and hit us here in Midwest Illinois(around & in Utica, Illinois) with an F3 tornado. The 1990 tornado traveled 16.4 miles tearing through & destroying everything in its path.
Me and my mom were in the mall that the tornado in 1990 hopped over. Even at 7 years old i knew enough about what was happening to be scared for everyone. Usually tornado alley in Plainfield got hit, but Joliet usually only had storm damage and not actual tornado touch down
@@jayaskme2942 where it hit parts were considered Joliet, but i think they're all Plainfield now. Like cartoon farm/essington there's a school just west of that corner that the roof lifted off and they had no school for 6 months or so. I think it's considered Plainfield now. Not 100% certain. But that tornado bounced all over there before and after running down quite a bit in a row of houses and such. You were probably in louis Joliet mall. I was 21. Glad you made it through that horrible tornado though. 😀 it had gone through over 16 miles of stuff in our area.
@@MamaJas88 well I am 46 now. I stayed on "the Hill". Went to Reedswood until they closed. Got transferred to Cunningham. Junior high I went to Hufford. Up to 7th grade l moved to Chicago. My family is still there. I was born in Joliet. St. Joseph hospital in 1974. My family are the Dail, Anderson, Bates and the Wright family. My name is Stephanie Washington- Morgan-Bey. No we NEVER had an tornado when I was living there.
I live just off of Renwick and Gaylord (0:29). I was fortunate to be at home and not needing to go anywhere that day, with only very minor outdoor damage. My indoor cat was not happy with the sounds of the debris blowing around outside. The next day I recall that the stoplights still were flashing red.
I live in Joliet and i went rafting on a river on the day of the storm. Of course It was before the storm was happening. Anyway. We were on the river and people kept on telling us to hurry up and get out of the water there was an imminent weather alert. So we were about 15 minutes away from our end location and then we heard about 4 Tornado sirens go off. So now we new it was about to get real. We looked over to our left and saw a house. It wasn't ours though. We got hit with some wind so we started getting ready to put the raft in a random persons back yard. We hadn't reached our end location yet. But when ne and my friend looked up. Directly above us there was a funnel cloud. Twisting so fast. So I pointed it out to my parents and we rushed and threw the raft up on to shore. I took my little sister and my moms friends kid and held them against a tree. We then ran to there front porch and knocked on the door. No one answered. So we waited on the front porch of a random persons home. Then it started hailing golf balls and then there were 100mph winds gusting in our face . We called my grandma asking her to come pick us up. And she did. We got home safely.
We’ve been in Joliet since 2017 & this was by far the craziest storm we’ve endured. Our electricity was out for a few days. Others were without for about a week or so. This storm did cause some damage throughout.
It's crazy how people just strolling along why the tornado siren is going off like it's just a normal day....😆🤣(no need to worry it's just a tornado)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m from Joliet originally. This was the last bad storm we experienced in Illinois before moving out of state, and this was one of the only storms to ever scare me besides the tornado that hit Coal City and Diamond in 2015. It went from being a beautiful day to the sky suddenly turning green and the sirens going off, we barely got to the basement before it hit Campbell. It sounded like the house was being rattled around, and I could see how green the sky was through the storm drain in the basement. So scary.
Are you talking about August 3, 2004? If so, that day was horrible my house got flooded and it was BAD it looked like a damage hurricane Katrina would leave. I remember being a little 8 year old and it left me traumatized for years!
Yeah, you're right. I hate it when drivers use the shoulder as their personal turn lanes and use every excuse in the book. I'm pretty much certain that pisses off many drivers to no end...
Drove right through its path on my way to work. It had downgraded to 70-80 MPH by the time it hit me, but while I was driving I suddenly heard a loud sound. I turned off my music and could still hear and looked all around to see if anyone else could have been playing it through their car or something but nope. Sounded like when you drive on a highway superfast and get that typical sound but much louder. There was zero visibility, tons of hail and twigs thought my car windows were going to shatter from hail and debris hitting it so hard.
I drove from Gelena to Kankakee right through the heart of the derecho that day. I wasn't aware that the storm was coming, and we started back to kankakee in the early afternoon. It was absolute hell; should have honestly just stopped somewhere for the night. I could barely see anything the entire way and probably pulled over a good 50 times. At one point in the middle of some cornfields I thought we would die because the wind was so insane, and transformers were blowing up. Ended up hugging close to the only building out there, a fire station, for awhile. Made it back in one piece, albiet my sister and her friend we had taken were traumatized, lol. Thank God for not letting our stupid butts die that day🙏
I live in Homer Glen. As it came in it looked gnarly. Sirens went off. Then we just got rain and maybe 20mph winds. Crazy how so many places all around me got wrecked, but my area got almost nothing but a heavy rain for 30 min.
I'm not far from Joliet. Route 30 was completely out of power, and I still believe that there was likely a rain wrapped tornado in there. All of the damage we had lined up with one where I live. It got so humid beforehand too.
Your driving east on division then north on 53 but being a storm chaser my question is , why weren't you turned around heading west , where the storms actually come from %90 of the time ?
I'm from Joliet living in Plainfield now, and I was sleeping when this shit hit. I was so surprised I never lost my power. Before I moved out here that's all I would here when there was a storm was how hard Plainfield Always get hit. This shit was wild tho. It woke me right up.
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I remember when I stood outside to hold peoples carts so they could get their cars and bring them up cause my manager wouldn’t let any carts outside I volunteered it was fun especially cause a cart corral fell over Edit: It hit a employees car
Man I love sitting right in the path of a tornado until the last second, kinda like playing chicken with your car. I've only been hit once, kinda a glancing blow and flung about 200 yards into someone's cornfield, I walked away from that one with only stiches in the top of my head from flying debris, hasn't stopped me though . . . I'm game for dangerous activities and you know why ??? because we keep coming back to this shithole planet, we keep coming back.
don earl I didn’t cut off anybody get your facts straight. I put my windows down and asked nicely. I was originally going to go right. GPS said left last second. Stop being a dick, and get off my video.
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Agreed! I've lived in Joliet all my life (53 years) and we've had worse storms... I actually watched this from my big bay window while watching t.v and eating popcorn. Only thing that sucked about this one? My lights went out shortly after and were out a week (thanks Comed🤬).. even in worst storms we never went without power for longer than 24 hours.
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We live near St Joes, lost power for the week. This was the second severe storm we've had. The last one was in May and I think that one was an EF1 traveling down 80 headed East.
Weird to see a bunch of locals here that I'll never know in real life lol
Nice to meet you.
I was born there I left in 90
Lol true
I'm from Joliet. We NEVER had an tornado coming up. But we ALWAYS had tornado drills.(when I was coming up)
You must be pretty young. I know when I was about 9 there was one (so roughly 40 years ago), than in 1990 there was an F5 on August 28th that claimed 28 lives and 353 were injured here in the Plainfield/Joliet/ Crest Hill area. In April 2004 30 tornadoes formed in Utah and hit us here in Midwest Illinois(around & in Utica, Illinois) with an F3 tornado. The 1990 tornado traveled 16.4 miles tearing through & destroying everything in its path.
Me and my mom were in the mall that the tornado in 1990 hopped over. Even at 7 years old i knew enough about what was happening to be scared for everyone. Usually tornado alley in Plainfield got hit, but Joliet usually only had storm damage and not actual tornado touch down
@@jayaskme2942 where it hit parts were considered Joliet, but i think they're all Plainfield now. Like cartoon farm/essington there's a school just west of that corner that the roof lifted off and they had no school for 6 months or so. I think it's considered Plainfield now. Not 100% certain. But that tornado bounced all over there before and after running down quite a bit in a row of houses and such. You were probably in louis Joliet mall. I was 21. Glad you made it through that horrible tornado though. 😀 it had gone through over 16 miles of stuff in our area.
Idk how old you are but I’m 31 and we’ve ALWAYS had tornadoes 🌪 🤷🏽♀️
@@MamaJas88 well I am 46 now. I stayed on "the Hill". Went to Reedswood until they closed. Got transferred to Cunningham. Junior high I went to Hufford. Up to 7th grade l moved to Chicago. My family is still there. I was born in Joliet. St. Joseph hospital in 1974. My family are the Dail, Anderson, Bates and the Wright family. My name is Stephanie Washington- Morgan-Bey. No we NEVER had an tornado when I was living there.
I live just off of Renwick and Gaylord (0:29). I was fortunate to be at home and not needing to go anywhere that day, with only very minor outdoor damage. My indoor cat was not happy with the sounds of the debris blowing around outside. The next day I recall that the stoplights still were flashing red.
I lived in Plainfield in 1990 when we had that big one it leveled my home
I’ll never forget it. 👀💯
I live in Joliet and i went rafting on a river on the day of the storm. Of course It was before the storm was happening. Anyway. We were on the river and people kept on telling us to hurry up and get out of the water there was an imminent weather alert. So we were about 15 minutes away from our end location and then we heard about 4 Tornado sirens go off. So now we new it was about to get real. We looked over to our left and saw a house. It wasn't ours though. We got hit with some wind so we started getting ready to put the raft in a random persons back yard. We hadn't reached our end location yet. But when ne and my friend looked up. Directly above us there was a funnel cloud. Twisting so fast. So I pointed it out to my parents and we rushed and threw the raft up on to shore. I took my little sister and my moms friends kid and held them against a tree. We then ran to there front porch and knocked on the door. No one answered. So we waited on the front porch of a random persons home. Then it started hailing golf balls and then there were 100mph winds gusting in our face . We called my grandma asking her to come pick us up. And she did. We got home safely.
Did you happen to be around DuPage river in Shorewood? I looked up too around that river and also seen rotation
Glad that you're okay. That stuff is sooo scary. People who have never been through it don't understand how terrifying it can be.
Thank goodness you all are safe.
@@juan_f150 thats were I was that is exactly were I was. I was rafting on the DuPage river
@@DailyShortsForYou9000 you probably seen us working on that big retain wall! We had berly cleaned up when it smashed us on the way back to the shop.
We’ve been in Joliet since 2017 & this was by far the craziest storm we’ve endured. Our electricity was out for a few days. Others were without for about a week or so. This storm did cause some damage throughout.
3 years? Wow thats long........
@@JimHerbertOutdoors ... Glad you can count...
It's crazy how people just strolling along why the tornado siren is going off like it's just a normal day....😆🤣(no need to worry it's just a tornado)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats how chicagoans are. I've always ignored sirens.
@@andyk4621 🤣
That's bcuz we always get tornado warnings in joliet but nothing this serious. And truth be told it could've been a lot worse.
Because they always over exaggerate but this one was legit lol
Yeah I know right?
I had the pleasure of driving in that from Joliet to Lockport the minute it started, until it ended.
It was insane.
Why do you have to lie though?
Got stuck in the Walmart on Jefferson St. in Joliet with my friend. That shit was wild.
I’m from Joliet originally. This was the last bad storm we experienced in Illinois before moving out of state, and this was one of the only storms to ever scare me besides the tornado that hit Coal City and Diamond in 2015. It went from being a beautiful day to the sky suddenly turning green and the sirens going off, we barely got to the basement before it hit Campbell. It sounded like the house was being rattled around, and I could see how green the sky was through the storm drain in the basement. So scary.
Scary😳 look at those trees! I live in the northeast and am used to cold, snow and Nor’easters. I would freak out.
What a great birthday this literally happened on my birthday and it SUCKED we had no power for 5 days straight
Sorry. Happy belated birthday to you.🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Thank you for sharing this awesome video. This is my home area!
I live in Crest Hill but was in Lombard when the storm hit. It was horrifying. I genuinely thought I or someone else was going to get hurt.
My window shattered on the second floor and a tree fell on my pool the power cut and I was scared
Yep I was in that storm yesterday. it had our power go out
Con ed did a very slow job at restoring power.
@@george25199 ikr
Rob Zombie yeah but this storm did damage sll over northern Illinois
What you are taking about I am from Joliet to in 2004 we had a big one many houses were destroyed.
this one also destroyed many houses. what's your point?
Are you talking about August 3, 2004? If so, that day was horrible my house got flooded and it was BAD it looked like a damage hurricane Katrina would leave. I remember being a little 8 year old and it left me traumatized for years!
LMAO i was in naperville and friend hit himself with a frying pan when the sirens went off
Yeah, you're right. I hate it when drivers use the shoulder as their personal turn lanes and use every excuse in the book. I'm pretty much certain that pisses off many drivers to no end...
These fucking assholes should be shot!
@@johnmills837 Well if they refuse to listen to good sense, then they deserve any misfortune that pursues them. Bring it on!
Love those 2001s going off at the start!
Drove right through its path on my way to work. It had downgraded to 70-80 MPH by the time it hit me, but while I was driving I suddenly heard a loud sound. I turned off my music and could still hear and looked all around to see if anyone else could have been playing it through their car or something but nope. Sounded like when you drive on a highway superfast and get that typical sound but much louder. There was zero visibility, tons of hail and twigs thought my car windows were going to shatter from hail and debris hitting it so hard.
I drove from Gelena to Kankakee right through the heart of the derecho that day. I wasn't aware that the storm was coming, and we started back to kankakee in the early afternoon. It was absolute hell; should have honestly just stopped somewhere for the night. I could barely see anything the entire way and probably pulled over a good 50 times. At one point in the middle of some cornfields I thought we would die because the wind was so insane, and transformers were blowing up. Ended up hugging close to the only building out there, a fire station, for awhile. Made it back in one piece, albiet my sister and her friend we had taken were traumatized, lol. Thank God for not letting our stupid butts die that day🙏
UGH… 1990 Tornado Flashback!!! 😩💅🏾💯
I live in Homer Glen. As it came in it looked gnarly. Sirens went off. Then we just got rain and maybe 20mph winds. Crazy how so many places all around me got wrecked, but my area got almost nothing but a heavy rain for 30 min.
I’m from Joliet and we ALWAYS had tornado’s and siren 🚨 growing up! FACTS!
Thanks to this, my fence bye bye, my roof bye bye, $20,000 insurance claim.
I drove through this storm at it's worst through new lenox. worst mistake I've made in a long time.
I'm not far from Joliet. Route 30 was completely out of power, and I still believe that there was likely a rain wrapped tornado in there. All of the damage we had lined up with one where I live. It got so humid beforehand too.
same
That is some fantastic footage, wow!
It wasn't a fantastic experience
Is this that late August storm about 25 yrs ago??i helped clean up and repair
Fantastic sky!
wow! impressive wind!!
I live in Texas this is normal for us. Was this the result of the hurricane that came upon land went through a few states?
Nope. It was the result of a cluster of thunderstorms that started in south Dakota and turned into a super derecho in Iowa
Your driving east on division then north on 53 but being a storm chaser my question is , why weren't you turned around heading west , where the storms actually come from %90 of the time ?
From joliet, went inside just before a big tree branch crashed through my skylight
Beautiful shots, I was hoping for that rain to hit northeast Ohio but it all went south.
Fuck that its been almost 30 hours since the storm and I still dont have power
@@kyle1751 same
No you don’t this storm was bad one of my windows shattered and a tree fell on my pool
@@MattCrabb10 I'm sorry
Sandra Shevel no it’s ok I am just saying this storm was bad and I don’t think you want it. ( I subbed to you )
I'm from Joliet living in Plainfield now, and I was sleeping when this shit hit. I was so surprised I never lost my power. Before I moved out here that's all I would here when there was a storm was how hard Plainfield Always get hit. This shit was wild tho. It woke me right up.
This storm was crazy, It worked its way just picking out trees and throwing stuff. Lost my chair but not my watering can. Go figure.
That tornado was above our house while my 3 of my siblings where crying in the basement
11 trees about 15' to 20 ' tall fell just with 2 blocks around my house
Romeoville man here. Was on RT.53 driving down from Wilmington. I hung out near the jail in Joliet and waited for like 15 mins. Was all good
You like Wilmington ??
I had to drive through that with my mom, we were on our way back from picking up our pizzas...it was pretty scary!
Yeah but the question is was the pizzas any good and where did you get the pizza
@@JohnKennedy-zi5oi Lol
@@JohnKennedy-zi5oi Well, I liked them, little caesars
thank you for showing this pray you are k
Hows youtube kno where i live?
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I remember when I stood outside to hold peoples carts so they could get their cars and bring them up cause my manager wouldn’t let any carts outside I volunteered it was fun especially cause a cart corral fell over
Edit: It hit a employees car
Yeah i was at a gas station and my gas cap flew away and I just froze. My daughter got me back into the car. It was a little scary
I broke my ankle , falling down stairs, power was out during that nightmare
I was working at a daycare and out light blew out while this was happening. We huddled up the kids and used our flashes.
I was at Michigan that time...
My neighborhood was a complete disaster I’m right next to joliet
My neighbor's tree fell onto the house next to it. No damage happen tho.
Yep sat in my tractor in the yard till it pass thru
Can you believe i was out in this shit smdh shit was crazy.
i was playing gta talking to my friend on facetime from england
he was like what the fuck?
oh damn that’s my city :)
Hopefully you didn’t have an accident
On the day if the tornado, a trampoline got knocked over a fence and over to the street.
Very cool!
Just missed it. 🙏🏼
Man I love sitting right in the path of a tornado until the last second, kinda like playing chicken with your car.
I've only been hit once, kinda a glancing blow and flung about 200 yards into someone's cornfield, I walked away from that one with only stiches in the top of my head from flying debris, hasn't stopped me though . . . I'm game for dangerous activities and you know why ??? because we keep coming back to this shithole planet, we keep coming back.
I hear Sirenhead coming
#savethetrees
I remember this lol
Great Vid...but you cut that guy off.in the middle of that storm."NotCool".sorry
don earl I didn’t cut off anybody get your facts straight. I put my windows down and asked nicely. I was originally going to go right. GPS said left last second. Stop being a dick, and get off my video.
How, do like the smashed house? Humm?
He,he,he,he.
This was the worst tornado I ever experienced
My Lord!
Please be careful posting where you live.
Thank you. But I got something for anyone who feels like they want to pay me an unannounce visit with out my knowledge!!!🤔🤨🥊🥋🏆🏅⚰
Hey I live here
Weather warfare
Absolutely. 100% modified weather manipulation. the vast majority of society has no idea that the government has this technology and use it on us.
Y’all a lil dramatic with these story’s....
That's what the comment section is for.... Duh, you read them. Why are you being DRAMATIC?! OH YOU JUST TROLLING LOOKING FOR DRAMA.....FIND SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE TO DO. PEACE......
@@rassanmorganbey1291 😕
Look at gods wrath
Weak
Agreed! I've lived in Joliet all my life (53 years) and we've had worse storms... I actually watched this from my big bay window while watching t.v and eating popcorn. Only thing that sucked about this one? My lights went out shortly after and were out a week (thanks Comed🤬).. even in worst storms we never went without power for longer than 24 hours.