I lived in Monroe Township, just outside Conneaut, Ohio during this disaster. We were used to water spouts coming off Lake Erie and we had our share of tornados. The largest was an EF3. In May 1985, I saw the biggest, blackest tornado that was heading East just a mile away from my house. I yelled to my wife to get the kids and get them in the car. About this time, the tornado rolled right through a trailer park completely destroying it. We took of in the car heading North towards Conneaut, then West heading to Ashtabula. That tornado was an EF5 and two miles wide. This tornado completely destroyed the City Of Albion, Pennsylvania that day. Not one building was left standing and several people died that day. That was the scariest day of my life. I have never seen another EF5 since and I don't want to either.
@@crustyc1387🙄😒... Thanks for the clarification... OP, that was a harrowing story. I'm glad you and your family made it out safely. Did you lose any close friends?
One of those lost in Albion was my mom's aunt. House trailer gone, garage gone, car sitting on the slab where the garage was, missing a piece of trim. I was told by someone who lived near Cory that there was some animosity about the east end of Erie and Warren counties being forgotten. These guys seem to have forgotten Albion, even.
Thank you so much for posting this! I lived through this experience as a 17yo that day. Fortunately, me and mine were not directly affected but lived close enough (to Niles TWP, specifically) to have felt it. I’ll never forget seeing firsthand those HUGE smashed tanks in the road and homes on their sides. It changed that community much like 9/11 but on a lesser scale. There was before and after. I still have the yellowing Youngstown Vindicator front page “TWISTERS SMASH AREA; MANY DIE”. The following school year, we had many new students who were displaced from their homes/schools. A disaster like this has many tentacles.
I lived in Monroe Township, just outside Conneaut, Ohio during this disaster. We were used to water spouts coming off Lake Erie and we had our share of tornados. The largest was an EF3. In May 1985, I saw the biggest, blackest tornado that was heading East just a mile away from my house. I yelled to my wife to get the kids and get them in the car. About this time, the tornado rolled right through a trailer park completely destroying it. We took of in the car heading North towards Conneaut, then West heading to Ashtabula. That tornado was an EF5 and two miles wide. This tornado completely destroyed the City Of Albion, Pennsylvania that day. Not one building was left standing and several people died that day. That was the scariest day of my life. I have never seen another EF5 since and I don't want to either.
It was an f4
@@crustyc1387🙄😒... Thanks for the clarification... OP, that was a harrowing story. I'm glad you and your family made it out safely. Did you lose any close friends?
One of those lost in Albion was my mom's aunt.
House trailer gone, garage gone, car sitting on the slab where the garage was, missing a piece of trim.
I was told by someone who lived near Cory that there was some animosity about the east end of Erie and Warren counties being forgotten. These guys seem to have forgotten Albion, even.
Thank you so much for posting this! I lived through this experience as a 17yo that day. Fortunately, me and mine were not directly affected but lived close enough (to Niles TWP, specifically) to have felt it. I’ll never forget seeing firsthand those HUGE smashed tanks in the road and homes on their sides. It changed that community much like 9/11 but on a lesser scale. There was before and after. I still have the yellowing Youngstown Vindicator front page “TWISTERS SMASH AREA; MANY DIE”. The following school year, we had many new students who were displaced from their homes/schools. A disaster like this has many tentacles.
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Thank you Mark Henderson for posting
I seen the tornado that traveled past Dempseytown, Pa. I was 15 years aged. GOD bless the Best family.
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It could happen again .