#43: A Tornado Is Coming

There’s a reason people are frightened by weather, especially significant tornadoes. In the last two hundred years, thousands of people have died in tornadoes. Two tornadoes in 1936, one in Gainesville, Georgia, and the other in Tupelo, Mississippi, killed a combined 600 and injured over 8,000. Thankfully, Elvis Presley survived!

However, these weren’t the deadliest. The Tri-State Tornado, seven years before, in 1925, killed 695 people in Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois. It spent over three hours on the ground, which is unthinkable, as the average tornado lasts five minutes. It also reached wind speeds of over 300 miles per hour!