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IN 1927, POPLAR BLUFF,MO. was hit by a f-5 tornado at 310 pm on a monday afternoon. my father, was 4 years old living at home!!
He has told me about the devastation of the huge tornado..Over a 100 people were killed and 300 injured in poplar bluff,mo. It is a small town on the Black River, in se Missouri.
The town, was left in complete ruins. It seemed as though an atom bomb had been dropped on this small town.
By true grits and determination everyone pulled together to rebuild the town. Yhe bricks from the buildings were used to pave main street in Poplar Bluff.
My father was always scared of tornadoes from 1927 till his death in 1996. He passed this on down to yours truly.. We spent countless hours in a storm cellar built my grandfather…
In 1962, this all was about to come to an end. My father, a radio telegrapher from world war 2 applied and was hired by the government in Tucson, Arizona,,,We all were loaded into a 57 buick and moved to Tucson in the summer of 1962, No more tornadoes and baseball year around was very welcomed news for me.
IN Tucson, and most of Arizona, the summer time is a period of thunderstorms for the months of june and july. Its a weather condition called the “monsoons” of the southwest,Ahigh pressure system builds over the four corners area. This draws moisture out of mexico into the south west.
in 1962, my father and sister visited the san xavier mission southeast of Tucson. ,,,What happened next was freak of nature on afternoon in july 1962.
Athunderstorm came in from mexico..a tornado, a category 1 came down out of a cloud and killed 2 people on the indian reservation. My father and sisters had to run for their lives to get away from the on coming tornado.
We had been in Tucson little over a month and the first tornado in over 50 years decided to make a little noise. It was all over the national news the next day,
You can imagine the jokes that came in from our relatives and friends in missouri,,Aday to remember …Atime to never be forgotten by the living. a time known as the good old days in amrizona!!
Romeo and Juliet? no, Bobby and mccall,no!!Ike and Tina,,not hardly,well who was it dennis?