Fairdale Tornado Survivors Share Stories of Loss
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2015
- Clarence "Clem" Schultz and Donna Peek remember his wife (Geraldine Schultz) and her mother (Jacklyn Klosa) on April 11, 2015. Both died in a tornado that destroyed much of Fairdale, Ill., two days before.
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The fucked up thing is that this man did the things you weren't supposed to do while his wife did everything you were supposed to and yet she was the one to go (not that this man should have died or anything). Just crazy how luck is
not luck. doom
He had the camera.
Cameraman never dies
Even after a big bang.
No matter what, even if you hide in a basement, a basket, or in your tub, or if you’re away from the window or inside. If it’s your time to die, this way, you will die this way no matter what. If it’s not your time, then it’s not time for you to go.
Unfortunately, if it's your time, it's your time. No one dies, on any given day, who isn't supposed to. Regardless of age, race, religion, social status. Death, does NOT care about who it takes, as long as it can take someone.
RIP Mrs Schultz.. Mr Clem Schultz (not to be vulgar) has balls of steel he watched and took a direct hit from this huge twister and rode the chimney down as it fell.
Thats the definition of hardcore
That’s the definition of foolish
Don't get bravery mixed up with foolishness.
@@George_uh_Glass he wasnt a fool, he noticed and accepted his fate i think
@Rach you are such pathetic childish moron, judging behavior of that guy who survived probably by miracle. What do you know? What you achieved and experienced? Gtfo
That chimney saved the guys life
He survived a head on collision with an EF4 Tornado
That breaks my heart. R.I.P to all the victims, and God bless everyone effected.
I wish I could just meet these people. You look at them and you just know if you lived near them you'd love them both.
If no one has seen Clem’s footage of the tornado hitting him head on, plz do so. It’s possibly the most terrifying video I’ve ever seen. At about the 2:05 mark you can hear the demons being unleashed.
ua-cam.com/video/SfcF5mHmL4c/v-deo.html here he is in the street after it happened.
I was chasing this tornado and saw it first hand. Seeing this just breaks my heart. Nature is so cruel (disease, natural disasters, death, etc). I saw this tornado hit this town head on. Nothing I can do about it either, not a feeling a storm chaser / researcher wants to see. Seeing this really sucks. God bless everyone from sticking together.
To be honest and with due respect ... The footage Clem shot was absolutely incredible - Even having viable scientific value. Better footage than any storm chasing probes or unmanned drones sent into such monstrous storms. His video is stable, high quality, and just amazing (from a research standpoint).
I send all my condolences for his wife and his recovery, as well as those losing their lives and property in tis devastating storm. Illinois people are some of the nicest and down to earth folks I ever came across.
Nature isn’t cruel. It has no intent. But it is incredibly powerful, and should never be taken for granted, or ignorantly dismissed.
Living things are what matters most in this universe. For all we know, we might be the only life ;I doubt it, but the possibility remains). We must protect ourselves and our other living cousins jealously. We payed for our place on this earth with incalculable deaths. It’s our job as a species to stem the flow of unnecessary death, IMO. Tornadoes included.
wish I could donate to him!I live in the east coast ,Massachusetts to be exact & I'm speechless, I've never seen a tornado pass thru a town before,even on video only in books .....and WOW this is scary, but thats mother nature for you,absolutely terrifying ,you literally can't run anywhere if it's coming your way,literally nothing you could do except hide & hope for the best !! anyone else been thru this?!
+acruz691 Did you ever see the video taken by this man of when that exact tornado hit his house?
You can outrun a tornado but must zigzag in order to fool it from taking your life.
Clem. My prayers are so with you. One of the very finest, bravest videos of a violent windstorm I have yet to see. And, yes, this was deadly. But, it is nothing mean or evil. Just very bad luck. Mother Nature simply balances air pressure via tornadic wind storms. The vast majority NEVER go to populated areas. That is all. Very bad luck. God Bless You!!!!!!
The man named Clarence shot a video of the tornado!
One hell of a video! But until now, I had no idea that tornado had taken his wife too :( :( :(
@@tanyasmith2173 yeah when his neighbors dug him out said don't look down he asked why she was dead under him
Very tragic
@@davidbutters4207 how do u know this?
@@andymspragg watch mrballens video on it
That's so heartbreaking.
We all go through times of losses. I had a year that I lost nearly everything, but not from a tornado. I truly feel sorry for these people.
There's no reason for the people to be dying let's get tornado shelters start building them start getting under the ground with start doing something
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Ah yes, why did no one think of this before?
he didnt fit in the storm shelter i guess that's what i heard but i could be very wrong
@@davidbutters4207 That's nonsense. His wife was in the kitchen and he was upstairs in the bedroom getting oil lamps and candles for when the power goes out. They didn't think the tornado would hit but it did.
@@meghanh2511True. His age was a factor as it was too late to get downstairs to shelter in time once he realized the storm would hit their house. Apparently, his wife got into a small room (closet? bathroom?) next to the kitchen seconds before storm shredded their home. Some sources list an appliance or the falling debris as her demise source.
This incredibly brave man deserves an award for capturing one of the greatest Tornado shots of all time, Sean Casey of Storm Chasers series fame with his TIV ( Tornado Intercept Vehicle ) couldn't even capture such an incredible shot which he was dreaming about and striving for.
@erratic-LEE me and that's what he really wanted wasn't it?... obviously your not dense to see that his bravery was consequential, but bravery nonetheless, which is what most bravery amounts to.. "Nobody asks to be a Hero, it just sometimes turns out that way" - Black Hawk Down 2001
Im In the process of trying to buy a small Indoor shelter, ever since an EF3 touched down a couple miles north of my home a few days ago.. Its a scary thought that one of that strength hit so close..
Very brave man
He must have acquired the knowledge from his grandchildren. Cameramen never die.
So sad
In the tornado alley there are small towns with their small city center, which are very old, some with the date of when they were built 1889, 1850, 1900 and so on many more buildings, and all of them are still standing in those places where Tornadoes pass almost all the time, and all those constructions are made of very hard solid brick, they are there as an example of how to build something that resists both time and the attacks of nature. Why do they make houses out of sticks and cardboard today? Just so Home Depot and Lowes make more money? The bricks they sell don't weigh anything and the wood is light and not as heavy as before. If one day you have the opportunity to look at a 100-year-old house and see the wood it was built with, you will see that the wood is hard and heavy. Sorry, my English is not good, use a translator.
There was no basement in the house? Would of helped if there was somewhere else safe in the house
He was convinced it wouldn't hit and it didn't look like it was gonna hit and into it was too late
He wasn't fast enough
@@jerrygil1965 he had two minutes, there was plenty of time. But no basemnt apparently
His wife apparently was in the basement per other accounts. She was the one who perished, sadly.
if a tornado of this kind cant take him down what can
Very, very tragic. It's unbelievable the devastation a tornado can wreak. Isn't it unusual for a tornado like that to be so far north? They probably weren't expecting such a thing almost in Canada.
+zyxmyk Canada gets it's monsters too.
This tornade was not au Canada. merci
Canada get tornadoes of this strength too....
Jon Jukes They do but not as often.
Of course there's tornadoes in Canada, I don't know why you're trying to make it a bragging point.
If you live in a tornado area you better have a go to bag of all the valuables that mean anything to you so you can grab them and go.
That most the usa
Absolutely 👍
I call mine the "jump bag."
@@mkm44 Preparedness is key. I also have an envelope with copies of my social security card, birth certificate, etc, in case my fire safe chest with originals goes missing.
It's sad seeing them try to keep their spirits up with humor while breaking down crying.
True. They were processing the loss if their loved ones and their homes. Kudos to & for them. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
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He is the extreme.
He probably thought he was going to wake up meeting jesus because he was tired of his life.
If her granddaughter wasn’t there she wouldn’t have gone to the basement, she would’ve stayed and watched the show? I don’t get these tornado alley people. Do they all have a death wish?!
why he shot the tornado..btw thats stupid, he could leave the town, or be safe in aother place of the house.
Dude, there was no safe place in the house and if it were for not filming the tornado and if he was in any other place in the house he would have possibly died.
@@williams2652 how about the basement they had
there storm shelter didnt fit both of them is what i heard but i could be wrong and yeah no place in a house would survive even a ef3 tornado
It was expected to miss them and they didn’t expect it to be a direct hit. His dog ran away as it was coming near. His wife went to the basement as you are expected to do. He went upstairs to get lanterns. I hadn’t read that the basement was too small for them both. Clearly he was called to stand at the window and take the video instead of heading to an interior space. The polar opposite thing you do in such circumstance. But, ironically he lived and his wife didn’t. Apparently they found the phone with the footage in the wreckage.
It's things like this that make me objectively question my belief in a God. Because things are just too random to make sense. The wife takes cover and is killed, the Husband films a Tornado as it is barreling directly at him and he survives. I'm not trying to imply he deserved to die, it just kind of disprove how the bible says "God helps though who help themselves"
I believe "God" simply made an experiment and lets it go. Like a scientist in a lab.
Morning Glory,
... but the Bible does *not* say, "God helps them who help themselves".....
We have made up our *OWN* rules here, and that is *not* how it is supposed to be.
*NOPE*
God's *WORD* is *ETERNAL* ,and we are *NOT* allowed to just make it up as we go along because there is also consequence for that action too. (Jesus reproved the Pharisees of His day too for *USURPING* the WORD with their OWN man made "religion"! )
Honestly, God wants us to *obey* Him in *LOVE* ~~ which is exactly what His *eternal* Word is *all* about.
On a very personal note, some years ago, I died (yes, stone, cold dead) and went "over yonder"
*GOD IS LOVE*
So very Vast and Eternal that even those words can even begin to come close to aptly describing the *PURE LOVE* that God *IS*
The. Words. Do. *NOT* . Exist.
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The Bible does not say "God helps those who help themselves". Who told you that?
Can you not see things as they are? Why do you have to pull god into everything.. there were lesser chances of stuff falling over him compared to a person in the basement which is not a storm-shelter. So he kinda got lucky. Actually all the time it took to film it could have been used to go a safe distance, it was just one floor over the basement. He looks like he could do it. Probably his wife was also as mobile as him..
His wife could of been alive. If he would of not thought about himself and not taped the whole video
How would he being with his wife save her. The entire house collapsed and there almost no time to think where to go. Plus he said that he thought the tornado would pass the house
I've watched his video. After 45 seconds, it is clear the tornado is coming closer. After that, there is at least one full minute to at least yell at her to get in the cellar/basement. (Reports say she was in kitchen, because she didn't want to go to the basement because she was afraid of spiders) I bet if he hollered that it was coming, she might have been able to go in the basement. But nothing. Not a word. It's also weird the way he talks about her in this and other videos. No flashlights in your house that aren't upstairs? You don't take cover during a tornado warning? I live in Michigan. I take cover when there is a warning! I don't go looking for lanterns or videotaping.
@@christym6128 Um you got your facts wrong because there neighbor was the one who had a fear of spider and refused to go in the basement (her house is shown collapsing in the video when the tornado hits, she was found dead in the bathtub) they only had a little cellar that could barely fit a furnace and if at 45 seconds you noticed the tornado getting closer than he still wouldn't have had enough time to grab his wife and evacuate because the tornado hit quickly and if they would've tried to leave they both would've gotten caught in it and perished....there wasn't much Clem could've did to prevent his wife from dying so y'all need to stopping trying to downplay his courageous act by trying to act like if y'all were in his situation y'all could've handled this better 💯💯💯💯
Ah. Sorry.
wasn't his wife found dead under him?
The day Americans will start earning enough to be able to build brick/cement houses that will mostly withstand tornados will be the day I will start clapping for America.
@Allen Tokyo reported for profanity
We don't need your negativity
@@jerrygil1965 Cute. You think my facts are negativity. You're too young for the internet sweetie. Bye now.
@Allen Tokyo Aww baby. Calm down. I bet you wouldn't say that to my face. Of course tornadoes can destroy brick homes but it's much harder and the tornado has to be violent. Didn't you learn anything from the nursery rhyme about the 3 little pigs? They lived in a straw house and guess what, the big bad WOLF was able to blow their house down! WOW amazing right? Imagine if the pigs lived in a brick house, do you think the wolf would've been able to blow their house down? Hmm, have a little think about that sweetie.
@@meghanh2511 Dude in what kind of fantasy world are you living in? Are you really comparing a wolf out of a fairytail with a EF3/EF4 tornado?
what's really sad is that it was more important to film the tornado than to be with his wife. NO HEART or concern for his wife, just selfishness.
I don't know what the circumstances were, but yeah, I would have gone to my wife and try to protect her.
He stated that he thought the tornado was gonna pass them. He was getting lanterns. Then like always it changed direction with no predictability.
Exotic Butthurt yeah still, I would have taken care of my loved ones if I could, or anyone for that matter. Lives are irreplaceable, and it’s more important to try and save as many people as possible, if possible.
This guy literally faces death eye to eye and you saying he has no balls? Smh
@@Cuh007 ok, I will correct myself. He had balls, just no heart.
What a stupid decision, take car and leave..
Tornadoes are faster than cars
@@jessicasmith-lc2nw Ok, thanks, i will check.
You are right it was a stupid decision to stay not only that but this dude is a bitch for leaving his wife downstairs to die @Ally2_
@@elijahvan8119 shut up kid
thats not how it works kiddo