Plainfield Illinois Tornado Damage 1990
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- I shot thisn two days following the tornado of August 28th, 1990. Its unedited. I hope to add footage to show changes that have taken place up to 2010. The high school that I graduated from in 1973 is shown destroyed, along with footage on James Street and Commercial Street. A very sad day that, oddly enough, put Plainfield on the map. I personally know several people who moved here after driving thru to survey the damage.
Rt 59 has changed so much since then.
Ya it did, that strip mall they showed, now its a huge complex. It completely changed, no doubt.
I drove a School Bus for Plainfield from 1984-1991. From '85-'90 I drove bus #24 & am glad you have footage of it, along with the other buses that were kept at the then Plaza Dr. location. Thanks for posting!
That was a strange and sad day. I was there four hours before the tornado hit and my son was born on the 27th the day before which was the same day Stevie Ray Vaughan died
I was 10 when this happened. We lived right behind the mall. I can remember this as clear as can be.
I was 5 years old and lived not far away, I'll never forget the way the temperature dropped so fast or how the sky looked that day. The street lights came on at 2:30 in the afternoon and it looked like it was midnight in a matter of minutes
Did you live off Caton Farm or Essington?
I did to.
my moms friend was driving through that tornado and the tornado threw her car into the cemetery, then when she got out to her moms house during the tornado her mom kept yelling at her to go get their sister, even after she had been thrown into the cemetery. Now she's deathly afraid even of rain storms, she teaches college and the students say she leaves the room when it rains.
I worked at St. Joseph Hospital, working Surgical Intensive that particular day, and it will forever leave an unremovable memory in my head. The pain of loss that was all around....I have managed to forget alot of things in my old age, but not this day, or the few months after as well to be honest.
At 9:18 - 9:26, is that Parks Bros Grocery Store? I think it is! Crazy! I was 8 years old when that tornado blew my house away. I was in the 3 ft deep basement with my family and we servived! Nothing but foundation left. Wheatland Plains neighborhood.
I was just down the road going to the high school as a teenager picking up a friend who was walking back to the school for us to pick them up. When we felt the SUV like it was going being lifted. We jumped out and ran for safety we had to hit the deck. We searched for our friend thru 8 hours of kaos they also hit the deck too! The sirens didnt go off till the tornado was 10 minutes on the ground. It wasnt going off when we left the SUV.. I remember it black and couldn't see it at all or where it was at. My dad rushed from St. Charles looking for me because he knew my friends and I were already there. He walked 10 plus miles because they stopped everyone. Boy we all looked like wet dogs gone wild but we made it out alive! Then 7 years later almost to the day. I moved to the out skirts of Plainfield/aurora after graduating and another tornado made an appearance across from my apartment building. It was unreal! My license plate says Skittn1 for a reason lol Sh*tting kittens to honor those who lost there lives that day.
I drove there a few days after and remember seeing a dumpster up in a tree across a field. Very bizarre.
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K Miller
THANK YOU! I didn't dream it.
I saw that too.
Nice footage. I was 17 at the time. Grew up in Joliet, about a quarter mile from where the tornado finally stopped. 20 years. Still can't believe it.
I remember my work manager at the time telling me that she had looked at buying a home down there the day before. It was gone when she called about it. I was about 45 minutes north in West Chicago at the time the storm went through and I felt my ears pop at work! That was one seriously huge tornado.
Thanks for sharing this, Don.
- Laurie McCarthy - Class of '81.
I was a survivor I was in that tornado and I broke my leg the damage was so devastating and my brother died REST IN PEACE:JACOM
My cousin and her 5 week old baby was killed in this storm. Rest in peace Leticia and Titiana
I lived in Plainfield for this tornado. I'm sorry for your loss and sending thoughts and prayers your way.
Were killed* No Ebonics , please. Use english
@@JimHerbertOutdoors based
Wow I heard about this! 🙏🏾
@@JimHerbertOutdoors really? you just had to be that ignorant 💩
Was in Michigan that day and you could see it across the lake. Love Plainfield and raised my kids there for 13 years, God bless those who lost their lives. Xoxox
This tornado has forever made me scared of severe weather. I was 8 going to a Joliet elementary school when this happened. My Mom's best friend and her 2 kids were hurt, but they survived. Good thing we didn't make it to her apartment on time or else we would've been hurt too 😳
I'm a Ham Radio operator. I remember this like it was yesterday. I, along with thousands of others, spent the next 11 days helping with relief efforts. Very little sleep... I was spending 8+ hours a day helping there, then going to work in Elk Grove Village at night. I almost lost my job when I called in to say that I wasn't going to be in for my night shift, because my boss didn't believe me. But up there in Elk Grove, it was sunny. There wasn't any Internet then, and we didn't have a radio at work so they hadn't heard the news yet. He thought I was lying. Only because my boyfriend at the time was a field supervisor and he was in the area and saw the devastation for himself was I able to keep my job. He fought for me. Had it not been for him, I probably would have been fired. PS... I lived in Plainfield at the time. I was also going to the mall when I heard of the storm. If I didn't peel off I-55 when I did, I would have driven straight into the path.
Bedford Park sunny no clouds.
I was a freshman in high school at Wabonsie Valley High that day.. As I got on the bus I remember saying to a classmate, god the sky looks green.. Not to long after getting home the skies rolled dark and that was all she wrote.. I lived in Aurora at the time and it missed us by inches.. To this day you can still drive down Rt. 59 and see the reminders...
Nice video-thanks for sharing! You graduated with my dad :) Plainfield class of '73!
So SleestakRule, you drove there just to see all of our wrecked houses? Nice. Thanks for contributing.
Not unusual. Many friends I have first saw Plainfield in the days after the tornado and then moved here because they liked our town so much.
thanks for having a good video cam.
crazy seeing st marys church again.
what a day...
I’m class of ‘92 I was 16 when this happened and supposed to start my jr. year the next day. Still hard to watch.
The most severe building damage was rated F4 while a cornfield near US-30 was rated F5.
I remember this. I was living in Joliet at the time. This was horrendous!
Hit my parents High School and almost hit my grandparents house, I’ve seen pictures and I was wasn’t born yet to even experience this, but seeing this is just totally different to what Plainfield, Cresthill and Joliet look like today.
My teacher was in this tornado ;( Bless her
For what it's worth fujita rated it a 5 based on the cornfield next to rte30 saying it was some of the worst indications of strength he had seen to that point this tornado varied from f1-f-5 most if not all bldg damage was from f-3 to f-4 damage there was evidence of it being a very high end f-5 with wind of 300+ for a short time before Plainfield if it hit the populated area of Plainfield at its max strength you would have seen damage similar to Joplin or Moore this was a very violent tornado nonetheless
I lived in Lisle at the time and now live in naperville i was just a child 6 years old but i do remember going there to help out and donating food. Scary thing.
I was at the dealership that got hit me and my friend left the dealership 5 min before it was hit we were very lucky to get out. I went back the next day to help but was told to leave it was to dangerous due to all the unstable conditions RIP to those who lost their lives that day
I lived in an apartment on James right across the street from the HS. We still have similar video we took the next morning walking around downtown. So many stories all of us can still tell about that day.
Any stores you willing to share?
Right now im sitting in plainfield watching this video..
I was 12 & in the Wheatland South subdivision near Route 59. Way too close for comfort.
My mom was a teenager when this happend and she worked at a mcdonalds and the tornado passed it.
I worked at Stone Container on Rt.30 just 1 mile north of where the tornado wen't through I worked the 11 PM to 7 AM shift and they had power and I had to go to work that night took me over 1 hr. to get there from Lockport they let us all go home around 1AM because nobody showed up to work.
Hello, I am producer at Univision Chicago and I would like to request permission to use part of this footage in a special show about Tornadoes. Please let me know if that is possible. Thank you
I was 8 at the time and recall visiting my mom's work at Realty World on 59. One thing that stuck in my mind was the damage to the old St. Mary's church across the street. Lot of devastation.
I remember there was a lot full of 1950s junk cars on rte 30 just past the junction where 126 merges. I went back there 2 weeks after and all that remained was a 1956 Buick and that was across the street. There had to be atleast 40 cars in that lot that got sucked up into that tornado.
Great video.
I drove through that part 15 years later because I was born 2001 one in Plainfield
I lived in Chicago until I was 14. Then I lived in Hanover Park, til I was 24. I never once saw a tornado. 24 years in the midwest, and nothing like this.
What and why were the helicopters spraying?
Still looks the same today
If it hit the same area today the damage would have been far worse Plainfield and surroundings areas were mostly rural except for crest hill and Joliet from Oswego southeast to Plainfield then was very sparse population it was between Oswego and just before the Plainfield high school that this killer tornado was maxed out it weakened slightly when it hit the high school at a high end f-4 still very strong it also varied in width from 700 ft to a half mile wide multi vortex monster
We lived in Elburn then. So sad...
Zero video of this tornado anywhere..
Drive through plainfield alot. I was 2 when it hit and I'm from New Lenox; so we were safe. But even now my parents say they never felt such uncomfortable, sticky humidity as they did that day.
Still weirds me out sometimes driving around 59 when I see videos/pictures of what happened. Crazy storm.. A very historic one at that.
What Fujita rating did this storm get?
F5
I know that they say this tornado was EF-5, but the damage I've seen shows EF-4 or EF-3. Usually an EF-5 levels everything to the ground and massively de-barks trees, wraps cars around trees, picks up concrete parking stops and throws them a mile away. This didn't show me any of that. In fact, a lot of the houses and buildings were still mostly standing. That's just my observation. If you want to see EF-5 damage, look at Moore, OK 2013, Joplin,MS 2011, Jarrell,TX -- now that was EF-5 damage, this wasn't even close. Sorry, but this "is not EF-5 damage".
it did do that in other areas of the tornado path.. just not what is shown in this video Flashy
Barbara Stiles Okay, I stand corrected.
See my reply above. Ted Fujita rated it an F5.
26 years ago
a teacher from my high school was there when it was hit. I think he was a teacher or a student not sure
This is more like F4 than F5 damage, at least in Plainfield.
Ted Fujita himself rated it an F5, he told Tom Skilling that it was the worst damage he'd ever seen.
i go to tht high school right now
I live in Plainfield
I mean JACOB
Or actually 2001 I drove through it
Ayo i wanna move out of Chicago and go to seattle
4:58 that’s a dirty truck