Searching for Remnants of the 2008 Parkersburg EF5 Tornado
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- In this video, we investigate the scars of the 2008 Parkersburg EF5 tornado. We search for ruins and even get a few interviews from those who witnessed the tornado first hand. This was definitely a major change up from the usual videos I make but it was fun to take a lil break. We will be back in a few weeks with another video.
Special thanks to Wendall and Nancy for the interviews! Also BIG thanks to my friend Jaccob for joining me. No I did not spell his name wrong, He really does spell it with 2 Cs lol
Contents
0:00 intro
0:30 mural
1:12 Background on the Parkersburg Tornado
2:00 Approaching the tornado path
2:50 Wendall Interview
4:38 Nancy Interview
6:12 Last House Standing
7:00 New Part of Parkersburg
8:40 Abandoned Driveways
9:00 EF5 Damage
10:40 Forest Tornado Destruction
Decided to change it up a bit from the usual studio video for a "Bald and Bankrupt" style on location video. Def a good change up but I'll be back with another normal video next. Thanks again for watching! Where should I go next? Special thanks to Wendall and Nancy for the interviews! Wendall is 91 (legend)
Phil Cambell Hackleburg tornado should be next
Wow 91 he don't seem like 91!!
You should totally go to Waco or Lubbock, cool towns with great tornado history
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First/third person walkthroughs? Locals lending interviews? this one was great! I hope you do more of these in the future!
I was going to comment this! This could become a series
Ooh a verified dude!
Yeah I just love how the lil lady walked out saying she’s got a story to tell
Thanks Aesthics!
Want to second or third this, what a fascinating way to highlight the impact of any given tornado! Awesome work!
I hope this becomes a full fledge series. Joplin, Mayfield & Jarrell would be something to watch
Joplin and Greensburg are next on my list!
I think Moore would be another one on the list
I live 30 minutes from Jarrell in Austin TX
Don’t forget about Plainfield! I was there last year dropping off baby bunnies (technically crest hill) and holy shit there are NO TREES!
I'm a current resident of Joplin. There's definitely a lot that's changed!! My husband and sister-in-law have interesting stories.
The interviews made me emotional. Far too often the emotional toll of storms is overlooked. Bless these kind people and may they never have to experience this horror again. ♥️
My man. This is incredible. Thank you for putting the respect on the town by bringing attention to their resilience!
Thanks John!
@Swegle Studios I hope you do a deep dive on the Pilger twins. I moved 15 minutes away from where they hit. Wayne nebraska a year before them had a monster side skirt the town.
Please do more interviews with tornado survivors. It's so interesting to hear their experience.
There was a website that was up for years where you could see the various lots in town before the tornado, right after the tornado, and the most recent picture of the lot. It got taken down some time ago, but it was certainly an educational tool to use learning about the various types of damage buildings could have.
That is the QUIETEST town I've ever seen. It looked like a very peaceful walk though.
I liked this new style of video! Very different yet cool! Also I wonder if the areas where homes were not rebuilt were deaths or just people not wanting to come back to the town? Nature will ALWAYS reclaim what is taken from her and this shows it. Very cool stuff!
I am from the area, and can say a lot of the towns around here are like that! Mine is just a bit smaller with about 1,000 people, but the same quiet nature. Makes for some very enjoyable walks. Most places in town can be reached by walking too
@@lorddeez1385 That's so cool! I live in a big city so you HAVE to drive to get anywhere useful and it's noisy depending on where you are. (Though my area is pretty quiet) You get used to the noise and can tune it out, but I do like the fact small towns can just walk everywhere. That sounds so nice!
I'm originally from a small town in Northwest Iowa, and this quiet, peaceful, friendly ambiance is par for the course. I miss it sometimes.
@@lorddeez1385 Sounds perfect. My city almost has 200k people and I hate it...
@@meijelly Mine has over 1.3 million. :)
I love the tornado stories about how crazy the wind can be.. You could be in the middle of an EF5 and everything obliterated but your flippy floppys are still in the same spot you left them..
Thank you for interviewing Wendall and Nancy. I'm so glad they made it out okay and that her friend had her "miracle" of flip flops and finding her rings!
Oh, also I looked up what it means when a community is StormReady! Thought I'd pop it in here for anyone who couldn't make out the URL on the sign. To be officially StormReady, a community must:
1. Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center
2. Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
3. Create a system that monitors weather conditions locally
4. Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars
5. Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.
@@funnyusername8635 I'm gonna talk to my county EOC about this. We have a brand new full siren network, but they stopped using them in favor of just WEA and EAS.
Periodically showing your location on a map makes the video so much better.Great job!!
One of the very best tornado channels on the internet. Really appreciate the great content and wish you much more growth and success with the channel! 🌪️🌪️🌪️
2008 was just a bad year for Iowa, not only the devastating tornado, but also horrible floods. Also this shows just the loving and relaxed nature of people and how much they are able to just talk. Nothing like living in a small town in Iowa. I love my state (for the most part xD)
You gave these people a chance to tell their stories to a lot of people. A lot of people in small towns don’t get to do that. Awesome vid man!
Do more like this, you are on to something huge. Consider using people who lived through it to provide more history, context and detail, as well as proof of their resilience. The satellite mapping was awesome. You rock!
Thanks so much! I got a long list of places to visit!
Really like the idea of visiting these places in person. If you do another one it'd be really cool to interview someone like a town official at the time or the local weather crew or something like that. Really liked the talking to the people that lived it
Those interviews you did with Nancy and Wendall were very interesting, keep up the good work Mr Swegle love the vids
Top notch video, Jake, and love the first-person take on the tornado as well, both people were lovely and obviously loved talking to you! More of these in the future would be cool for sure!
Do more of this content sweggle, been following u from the very beginning. And this is the kind of tornado content youtube is lacking. Interviews with survivors, and the live aspect of seing the city hit. This is something really interesting for a guy like me, living in Denmark. Thanks for the video sweggle. 🙏😁
Thanks Nick!
Been a long time subscriber of yours. This is one of your best videos. Thanks for highlighting a "smaller" F-5 tornado. Hearing from the locals who lived through the storm certainly adds a new perspective.
I really enjoyed this style Jake. Very compelling content. Plus it's always good to highlight the positive people and stories from events like this. The gentleman and lady that you spoke were very kind and genuine to share their memories. Top work.
Thanks so much Tornado Stories!
I love that you did these interviews. It connects with the people and they get to share their story. Nice job! ❤❤❤
Thanks!
@@SwegleStudiosI love your content, and would love to see more tornado town walkthroughs! (I’m from Tuscaloosa so Ik how it is)
I loved hearing the stories told by that nice elderly couple, truly a one of a kind experience
It’s always a great day when THE SWEGGS™️ uploads
Same Along with Pecos Hank
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@@AllergicFungus Pecos Hank or Hank Schyma is a Texas Storm Chaser and he makes a lot of Awesome Tornado videos :)
thank you for covering what happened in this small town. i am in boone iowa and thankfully safe from alot of tornados as boone rests ontop of a valley. however we help supply alot of towns for after storm damage. The entire state is still rebuilding after 2020 derecho. its amazing that your talking to the locals and really supporting the community!
It gives a dark feeling knowing there was once joy in that spot, then in just minutes it can be taken away and wiped from existence... insane
Thank you for the terrain realism and interviews. Nice approach.
This was a great video. From actually walking through the town itself, to the interviews by the awesome residents. A lot of people have some truly amazing stories, so it's great that you could share theirs.
Your content is rapidly evolving and I’m so happy to be able to watch your channel grow. You are such a class act, keep up the hard work man!
You should look at Greensburg, for remnants of the 2007 EF5, I find it amazing how much they rebuilt so fast
You and Carly have given me a brand new fascination!
you know its a good day when this guy uploads
Thanks for doing this video! I was there helping clean up after the tornado and being able to see how things have improved since then is amazing. It was definitely a flattened town on the south side. I mean, everything to the foundation was gone on those houses and about the only untouched spots in the basements were underneath the stairs. Will never forget that experience, for sure.
Slight side note: Wendell and Nancy remind me of the couple I met then who told me that the husband was picked up in a recliner and placed in their driveway, still in the recliner and not a scratch on him. So weird how stuff like that can happen yet half a town is blown away.
dude great video, honestly super interesting seeing remnants and how well they’ve rebuilt - would be super cool to see you go to other towns affected by tornadoes as well!
This is great content! Love the change-up. First hand accounts are awesome.
I work at a lumberyard about 15 minutes away from Parkersburg and often make deliveries there! Thanks for covering this!! Just happened to stumble across your videos and I was thrilled to see you covering this and speaking with the wonderful people of P’burg. Everyone there is so incredibly kind.
Congrats on 100K subscribers! You deserve WAY more than this amount, but either way it’s about time you reached this milestone.
Thanks so much! I mean I was happy with 10K so 100K just seems insane
This may be my favourite video of yours.The respect you showed the town, the way you let that couple tell their stories, great work!
Absolutely fantastic video. Your channel is quickly becoming one of my absolute favorites. Thank you for your hard work for our entertainment & education!
Fantastic, well detailed & respectful video!! Videos like these are amazing yet also heartbreaking. Especially the befores & afters. Keep up the great content. You'll easily reach 100K & well beyond very soon.
THIS IS FANTASTIC!!! PLEASE visit areas that have been affected by natural disasters and get as many stories/facts that you are able to. Believe it or not, these records will be absolute treasures to future generations! Regards from Northern Indiana!
Love this type of video! It's so interesting to revisit these places and hear stories and look back
Great work! Appreciate the live on the ground footage and cutting to the overhead map before and after the damage. Well done work! 👍
Congrats on making it to 100k man. You’ll be at 1M in no time
Thanks so much! I honestly doubt I'll reach 1M that's just insane haha
i’ve loved being able to watch this channel take off, the devotion is insane 🔥🔥
Absolutely adore this video, its nice to cycle through the in person views and the google street views, and getting to hear Wendall and Nancy's experience with storm itself is so awesome!!! I hope we get to see more videos like this ❤
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I currently live in Bosnia and have seen similar patterns here... patches of abandoned homes and evidence of war, alongside older areas that were less affected and areas of active rebuilding. Often within mere blocks of each other. It's hard to take it all in.
Side note: I work remotely. I would not mind living in this town. As long as I had a storm shelter. Preferably one large enough to share with neighbors and well stocked with provisions and lots of beer. Ok, not a bomb shelter. But a place that might feel safe if even for a few minutes and had an emergency generator.
All joking aside.. I really like the vibe of this place. I'm also binging on your videos. Thank you for all of them!
I live about 30 minutes east of Parkersburg. I remember going with my dad to help clean up. While I know everyone has heard what the aftermath looks like, actually experiencing it is sobering. The two things burned into my memory are coming into town on Iowa 57 and seeing everything was just gone, and getting out of my dad's minivan and the smell of the earth. Thank you for making this video.
Another epic video from THE
SWEGGS™️
Awesome video, one of a kind. Its so satisfying to see you go from such a small start to this, and the videos never losing their quality and the ideas always being fresh.
Perhaps sometime you can do a “top 5” (for lack of a better phrase) tornadoes outside of the us. There have been some relatively big ones in countries like Germany, china, and argentina.
This twister, the Rainsville EF5, and the 2011 Piedmont-El-Reno (yes 2011, not the 2013 twister) EF5 are 3 of the most violent twisters that are lesser known. This tornado produced some of the most violent damage recorded in modern history.
Don't forget Smithville MS in 2011. The damage it caused is unreal and it rarely gets talked about.
@@ericwatts6291 Smithville is talked about less than a lot of the other tornadoes in the 2011 outbreak, but it is more talked about than the Rainsville EF5. It's arguably the strongest tornado recorded and it looked like a fast-moving photogenic version of the Joplin tornado.
This was very interesting...I like that you were able to talk to people who were there! Hope you can visit other town's tornado paths.😍
I like the plot twist of touching grass. Changing it up once in awhile is a pleasant surprise.
Man this is great. Love the change up with the walkthrough of the town. Watching it now for the second time now that i can watch it listened to it earlier while driving home from work.
Almost 100k congrats!!!🎉
This was so cool! Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much for putting this tornado story on the map once again.
I love hearing especially older people tell stories like this, idk why, even if it's about a horrifying tornado, it's still so comforting to hear. It makes me miss my grandfather. We had so many interesting stories and was a very good storyteller.
These style videos are absolutely amazing. I know how much work it must’ve been and it sure as hell was worth it! Your channel is so awesome. Tornadoes are becoming my heavy special interest and youre fueling this. Am i complaining? Nope🙃💙
I enjoyed this video and hearing the folks in the town describing what happened during the tornado and you touring the area. It certainly was scary what they went through. 👍 Chris
This was great thanks for the hard work and dedication it really shows and is paying off!
i love your channel so much 😭😭😭 thank you for this upload
i love how he’s just 😁 the entire time talking about a ef5 tornado
Congrats on 100K!!!! Been around since 8,000. Always happy to see a new vid!
I love this style of video! You did an amazing job. I love to see the town now and any damage that remains. Very interesting! Thanks! ❤
More like this please. So much potential for great content revisiting these towns. Great format.
i've watched and loved all of your videos for a while now, congrats on 100k!! :)
Love this new format! Hope to see more in the future (though also love your sit down videos too)!
I have so much respect for these people. Great video as always, keep it up!
Wow. Great job. Very nice of the locals to share their stories, what wild experiences. It's a beautiful small town.
@SwegleStudios, excellent video exploring the scars these storms leave. I'm fascinated by tornados and I've been loving your videos because instead being exploitative or morbid you have a respect for victims of these storms. Keep it up!
Love the new format. Takes things to the next level
Just remember me when you become the future of weather content on UA-cam 😂 bringing something new every time I love it
I'll never forget you, Matt
I really like this style of video and the interviews with survivors and visual 360 references you gave us by walking around the debris. you should make more like this :)))
Greeting from Wisco! I have to say its always a good day when you upload a new video. I also want to add that I usually chase Iowa extensively when the conditions are right.
Congratulations with 100K! You deserve so much :) love your content
Thank you for doing this. I grew up not far from there and this was devastating.
Love all your videos bro. Watched em all several times, really really like your approach on this one bro. You should have kept driving east stopped in Milwaukee. It's where I live and grew up. Such an underrated beautiful city.
Nice work! This brings back memories of my Parkersburg, IA visit in 2014.
I absolutely loved this video. Giving respect to a town and actually going there to see it first hand. Hearing the local's first hand experience on the disaster.
This was an awesome video. Back in March my home town of Little Rock was hit. Thankfully I lived about an hour away at the time, but I live here now, and the damage is extensive. You can pretty much drive along damage path through town. People are still recovering and will be rebuilding for many years to come.
You should do more of these. I really enjoyed this one.
I'm an engineer for the CN and the forest area by the cemetery and silos is Sinclair. I started in Iowa in the fall of 2013. When I ran trains west the sheet metal was still at the top of the debarked trees and along the track. In the past few years they've finally fell down and the tress have started to regrow foilage. The easternmost silo is a few years old plus a couple that had to be rebuilt because they were destroyed. Sheet metal is still along the right of way by the tracks. It was said the tornado tore up houses like wood chips, even knocking down basement cinder block walls and sweeping away it's contents, even a resident. Scary stuff. Great job with the ground approach. Keep up the great work 👍🏾
Absolutely love this video concept man. Please do more of these!
I find this so interesting, especially the interviews.
I think that this could become a very cool series, if you plan to make more I look forward to watching
I went to Parkersburg with several nice film cameras back in 2012 also hoping to document some visual history of what was still visible of the damage, and the local people were so kind and took me around without hesitation. Parkersburg is one of those small town that thankfully we still have in the US full of real, kind-hearted, down-to-earth people.
Also, I would not categorize this tornado as a 'low grade' EF5...some of the damage in New Hartford was extremely, horrifically catastrophic, and this tornado was deservedly ranked #11 in the List of Strongest Tornadoes Ever Recorded (post 1970) in terms of damage done on Extremeplanet's list. Maximilian Hagen's list at that site is still the best-researched and most-convincing compilation of strong tornado lists of any website (and more than nearly any book), although I have some minor disagreements with his rankings.
MAKE MORE OF THESE PLEASE!! Its so much more intersting when you go the ACTUAL place that was affected
I love your videos they are always so well researched and so well produced please keep doing that I love it ❤❤
Always ready for a new video by the goat of weather youtubers, also you're almost at 100k hope all is well
I wasn't in that tornado but I was there the day after and it was absolutely beyond words how bad the damage was. It still gives me chills. Nice video.
This video is great! Loved the walkthrough style!
Really neat way to change things up! Keep up the good work.
Thank you alot For actually Visiting somewhere for our Own Enjoyment thank you so much your a legend Also Congrats on 100K subs you deserve it also im the 300th commet lol
I just started watching your stuff a few months ago and I really like the style of video. very cool 🤟😎📸
Dude WTf. Wendell and Nancy's interviews were heartwarming AF. I was NOT ready for those feels...
Loved this!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really wish more storm UA-camrs went to hunt for remnants from past storms, its so interesting. Keep it up!!!!!!
It’d be very interesting to do Joplin
love the new kind of vlog of the tornado and the interviews keep it up
This was... well I hate to say enjoyable about the lives impacted by tornadoes, but you know what I mean! It was really informative to see and I would love to see more like this again. The fact that even after so long, the scars are still clearly visible says it all. It's good to see how much was rebuilt, however.
You put a Lot of effort in this I appreciate it!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂
I found this little field trip really enjoyable. Good job.
I very much enjoyed the interview with the older couple ❤ very nice 👍🏾