Thursday, April 28, 2016

January 1936 F3 Tornado Fyffe/Greens Chapel




Just an F3 in January 1936 with one line on the NWS page. It was plenty more though. It killed two people in Fyffe and in Green's Chapel my Grandparents put their 3 kids under the kitchen table for protection. Their home was moved off the foundation but next door Rudolf Rowell's home was destroyed and his small daughter and his father were killed. Mr. Rowell's back was broken and he never walked again. Grandpa and other neighbors had to get the living and dead from under the rubble in the rain. Grandpa Potter was still talking about it 50 years later and I'm sure everyone else hit by it did the same.   

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