Inside Texas Tech: May 11, 1970
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2014
- Roaring hail, rain and winds swallowed the walls of warning sirens the evening of May 11, 1970 in the city of Lubbock. We a take a look back at stories of resiliency and determination, and how Lubbock and Texas Tech rose to the challenge of rebuilding the city and understanding the power of these extreme storms.
I was 17. We lived out on 8th Place near MacKenzie Jr. High, so we weren't affected but we could hear it! About 1 am, I took my motorcycle into town. I spent the next 4 days first helping clear debris and then (somehow) I ended up driving a "roach coach" food truck out to the cops, National Guard, and people still sheltered in place in damaged houses and even living in storm shelters. I went with very, very little sleep for almost 4 days before collapsing on a heap of donated clothing. My dad worked for KLBK as an editor and radio news voice. Quite a time.
VERY EDUCATIONAL FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT BORN YET!
I've had field trips there when taking schools for events at the Memorial Civic Center which never knew there were plaques on a wall. The bect time I take a school there I'll have to look for them and look at them.
I lived through the 1970 Lubbock tornado as a 10 year old. I have always wondered why there has never been a comprehensive Documentary on that VERY important tornado. It seems as though every other Tornado has been documented in that way. It would be important to see interviews with survivors recorded at the time, of which there were MANY . there are numerous little stories mostly under 20 minutes in length But a Full Documentary cannot be found!
I lived there also. My hometown. It was 1 bad storm. I was 13 at the time.
I thought I waa going to see a tornado in my neighborhood at 54th Street and Salem Avenue March I think was 2 years ago which took pictures of the clouds and rotation of clouds above me. Was interesting but luckily no tornado formed.
I meant to mention: We had tornado touchdown on a Fri. afternoon in May of '87. Ch 28 had live footage of it. It touched down just west of Reese and did some minor damage out that way; but there were no serious injuries. Been trying to find that footage on YT but haven't found it.
I saw that storm also. I wound up parked right up against the side of the Church there in the Reese housing area. I was trying to keep the pick up I was in from getting beat all the crap with the hail that was falling. Funny It was me & a couple of other salesman there at Gene Messer Ford there. I hollered at these other salesman & I jumped in a brand new pickup, they hoped in & away we went to chase that storm. I just knew that pick up was going to get tore all up & I was going to get fired for getting in 1 of those new pickups to chase a storm, lol. We watched it hit the water towers out there. It actually had 3 tornadoes on the ground in that storm that we saw. Ole Gene Messer would have been really pissed off had that pick up got all damaged from a dumb move of a salesman, lol. Thank GOD no one was hurt & that truck didn't get hurt either. I have always been fascinated with tornadoes being Lubbock native. I have seen many of them out there & lived through the one that hit in May 11, 1970. That was a scary day for a kid of 13.
I WASN'T BORN UNTIL 3 YEARS LATER. MY AUNT WAS ABOUT TO BE 16 YEARS OLD, AND, MY MOM HAD JUST TURNED 17 YEARS OLD.
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I've always heard the Holy Bible always survives a tornado.
The reason the sirens were "stifled" because they never sounded! The LFD fire dispatcher was hit by flying glass and lost an eye and was never able to sound the sirens. I worked on an ambulance crew and we were busy! My partner and I made Nat'l TV that Tue. because a military transport landed with cases and cases of whole blood going to the Coliseum where a refugee center had been set up. While we were loading cameramen from all 3 networks walked up and got footage of us. One claim to fame!
Skip Goulet my mom was almost 9 months pregnant with me at the time and my folks lived off of 4th and Indiana in Lubbock. I’ve heard many stories about that night, one being that they thought I was going to be born.
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5 cousins killed that night.