I have been in Andover several times visiting my son, daughter in law and granddaughter. Seeing this was shocking. All I could do is pray and be thankful that they weren't affected like others. Prayers to all.
This is why it's good idea to be a good neighbor. It's a simple phrase. Love thy neighbor. Oops, almost forgot that most people forgot just a few simple words. Guess the one's who weren't good neighbors. Will just be homeless. Where you have only one choice. To be good. BY the good grace of God. Have a nice decade.
This wasn't even the worst of it, if you can wrap your mind around that. Those people are seriously lucky. Houses can be re-built. Lost loved ones are gone forever.
I live in Andover and have been a certified spotter/chaser for around 5 years, I have never really had the chance to chase due to the fact that I didn't have my own vehicle to chase in. Last night I had my first experience reporting an at the time funnel cloud. I had left my home to go check my horse after the cell that we were in had lost its severe warning, the meteorologists were saying that the cell was falling apart, so I felt comfortable leaving my 3 siblings at home while I went a few minutes away. As I pulled into the driveway of the barn I saw a funnel cloud forming, the strange thing was that there was no mesocyclone, I immediately called my sister as the funnel was extremely organized and I had just got an alert that they were reinstating the severe warning, I told her to get to the basement with the other 2 and to wait for me in the safe room. I then called the EMA office as the funnel was dropping, I was about 8 minutes from my house and quickly drove home to my sisters. My parents were not home and I couldn't leave them at home alone while I sheltered in place, my gut was telling me that I needed to be with them I was willing to do whatever it took to get to them. I made it to the safe room about 5 minutes before the tornado tore through my neighborhood of Reflection Lake. We were lucky and don't have much damage, a neighbor's roof went through our window, the siding is in bad shape, and we have minor roof damage. Overall we are very lucky, no one in our family was hurt our house is still standing and livable. A lot of our neighbors are not as lucky, quite a few only have a foundation left. I don't think that I will ever forget that feeling when I saw the funnel forming over the direction of my house and not being able to gage how far away it was or the sound of the window being smashed in and the tornado only 50-60 yards away. The calm and silence right before the tornado hits is the most eerie sound you could ever hear. Currently there are no known fatalities, I believe that it was rated EF-3. This tornado took place 3 days after the anniversary of the April 26, 1991 EF-5 tornado that haunts this town, anyone who lived here at the time can tell you in detail where they were when the tornado hit. They say that the tornado that hit yesterday was on the ground for more that 20 minutes. My plan for the evening if my parents decided to stay home was to go out and chase, I never thought that I would be racing a funnel to my house. When I called I asked before I hung up if anyone else had called and if there were other spotters in the area, I was told that I was the first to report, I can only imagine what would have happened if I had done anything differently, would it have been reported in time, would my siblings and I have seen it in time to get to safety, how many lives would have been lost. I think these questions will haunt me for a while as I prosses what happened. I feel that when you have grown up around tornado alley and have lived through multiple tornados that never directly affected you, you almost get this sence that it couldn't happen to you that it is something that happens to other people a few miles away, but you never really know, it could be you being dug out of the rubble of your home next time. I will forever be grateful that we were spared, and I will never forget that feeling of driving hoping and praying that I would make it home in time, and the feeling of relief when it was all over and seeing my parents and grandparents safe. Looking at the footage and walking through the neighborhood I have come to realize just how close we were to being hit, the Lake and 3 home separated our home from those that are leveled, I pray for those less fortunate then us and plan on helping with clean up as soon as we are given the all clear.
My heart goes out to you and your family. It narrowly missed my neighborhood.I cannot fathom the horror of your experience. Praying for everyone affected.
the fact that you can see a car on the second level of someone’s house at 3:41 is insane!! luckily we didn’t get hit on my side of the town but the destruction is immense in some places
Crazy to think this is essentially only 60% power of a full blown EF5. Imagine had this ramped up to an EF5 in a populated area like this. Glad there were no fatalities. Horrible situation for those affected by it but glad it was only property damage.
It was almost exactly 31 years ago to the day for the 1991 EF5 in Andover, April 26th. I was in Wichita on business from Atlanta and hadn't been there for more than 2 hours when the thing hit. I was staying at the Residence Inn off E. Kellogg somewhere near the Cessna plant and remember having hotel staff banging on my door to come to the storm shelter. Scary as hell.
My phone was dead, live in trailer court, ran with dog, helped 3 elders on way , dude with baby, made it to shelter and met my brother /mom n there 5 dogs. Amen
How sad and devastating for all who suffered loss. Dreams of owning a home gone. I was in a terrible tornado in Emporia Kansas a very long time ago. To this day storms frighten me.
Weird that it took almost the same path as the 91' tornado. That system went right over my house at the time. This one missed us to the south this time, thank God.
No EF4 - EF5 type damage in any of the relevant aftermath photos or videos.In fact NSSL said initial windspeeds are consistent with strong EF2 -EF3.This will not be upgraded.
Oh wow! I have never seen these scenes of tremendous devastation in Andover KS before. The photographic evidence of so many homes ripped to pieces, Vehicles tossed around like toys and trees just twisted and torn, unrecognizable as trees. My Heart goes out to those Andover folks who list loved ones, whose homes and lives were torn up by the horrifying.power of that storm !
A very sad video to watch....But important! All the structures have interior walls standing. Anytime facing a tornado, it is ALWAYS better to shelter in place. This video shows that sheltering in place in the center of your home will save you! Just like the warning says from the National Weather Service. I ain't saying it is not scary af, but it is safer than running in your vehicle.
That was one wicked tornado! In Ihe live drone footage it plucked about 15 to 20 rooftops in less than 1 second!!! Better to lose the roof than have entire house sheared off its foundation.
There needs to be more investment in weather proof housing in areas prone to it. This is getting out of hand. Every week all you hear about are severe thunderstorms hitting the South and Midwest on a widespread basis
These drone videos are enough to explain visually what happened. Lose the dramatic music. Nothing emotional needs to be added unless you are so called "woke".
There is no way there were no deaths. Was no one in any of those houses ? A guy in Kentucky that was in a town hit by the EF5 last December reported that there were several more deaths than reported. I'm just really wondering why current tornado deaths are being under reported.
@@jonesfarm6501 I'm sure shelters saved some of them. But many houses don't have them. And even if they do, people are slow to get into them. So many just don't think they will get hit.
It's impractical to build every home strong enough to survive a tornado, simply because of how rare tornadoes are compared to how expensive it would be to survive them. I suspect it would cost less to build two homes each with a small shelter. Force scales with the square of wind speed, so to go from surviving say 90mph winds to 180mph winds, you'd need to build 4x stronger. To survive the strongest recorded tornado, you'd need to build 10x stronger, or build entirely underground. There are 3M people in Kansas, and tornado damage is about $100M/year. So in a lifetime each person will lose on average ~$3k to replace property lost to tornadoes. There's no way you can reinforce a whole house to survive a tornado for that much money, so it's more practical to get a small shelter to protect your life, and insurance to cover the risk of losing your property. There's also the fact that most people don't have the option of choosing a tornado-proof home. You'd only have that option if you're rich, and building a new home instead of buying one that's already on the market. Most people have to choose between buying a house and renting.
I don't know if this makes any sense But shouldn't our government be giving financial aid to our citizens to help in these disaster instead of sending billions to a corrupt country that essentially are killing their own. I would like to think my taxpayer dollars are going to a worthy cause to help my fellow American in need. FJB.
It was a powerful Tornado but I can just tell buy looking at many of the homes that the build quality is garbage. These mass builders are just spitting out homes and putting in the bare minimum and city codes are way to weak. That Tornado would of done minimuim damage in Florida due to the code requirements for hurricanes...but in Kansas....homes are paper thin.
@@millhousemillard2140 Concrete would help...but require metal straps around the roof trusts and make sure they are anchored into the concrete foundation at least.
@@millhousemillard2140 Have you ever built a house before Millard? No one said the house would look like it wasn't touched, but anchoring in the roof and fortifying the walls for maybe 2000$ dollars worth of material would be a drastic difference in those pictures you see. I linked you a video of one of a dozen products that are out there that should be STANDARD...but builders only think about the end profit.
Lets hope in the next week or so a violent mile wide plus ef5 mega wedge with 280 mile per hour winds hits a major populate region and tracks for 100 miles. Lets get a monster and get a record high casualty count🌪🌪☠️🙂
Don't bother your neighbors. Even if thy loved thy neighbor. Those untouched homes most likely will be taken out in a week or two. Don't forget this 21st century is for EVERYBODY. AND, GOD MEANS EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTIONS. HAVE A NICE DECADE
No one denies the heart ache and damage here. Yet when anyone suggests these are not natural but ma n ma de. That the facts, patents, testimonies and documents prove it The conditioned mas ses Scoff it off as cons pir acy. Our sweet smiling lea ders would never co nspi re to hu rt & exp loit us ? Imagine how much better our world would be.... If the large scale blind faith in man, was put back in the hands of Our Creator & God..... Instead of forked toun ged smiling bea uticrats... Keep us fe arful and dependant and blind to the truth. And get away with day light ro bbery and mu rder. Who do you want to spend your eter nity with ? Putting ones faith in man instead of God never ends well !!
I have been in Andover several times visiting my son, daughter in law and granddaughter. Seeing this was shocking. All I could do is pray and be thankful that they weren't affected like others. Prayers to all.
Prayers to all those effected by the Tornado 🕯🌷💖
We had a F4 Tornado in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1987 it was very frightening!
It’s amazing how houses right across the street are untouched in some places.
This is why it's good idea to be a good neighbor. It's a simple phrase. Love thy neighbor. Oops, almost forgot that most people forgot just a few simple words. Guess the one's who weren't good neighbors. Will just be homeless. Where you have only one choice. To be good. BY the good grace of God. Have a nice decade.
The devastation is unimaginable😢🙏 💔
This wasn't even the worst of it, if you can wrap your mind around that. Those people are seriously lucky. Houses can be re-built. Lost loved ones are gone forever.
I live in Andover and have been a certified spotter/chaser for around 5 years, I have never really had the chance to chase due to the fact that I didn't have my own vehicle to chase in. Last night I had my first experience reporting an at the time funnel cloud. I had left my home to go check my horse after the cell that we were in had lost its severe warning, the meteorologists were saying that the cell was falling apart, so I felt comfortable leaving my 3 siblings at home while I went a few minutes away. As I pulled into the driveway of the barn I saw a funnel cloud forming, the strange thing was that there was no mesocyclone, I immediately called my sister as the funnel was extremely organized and I had just got an alert that they were reinstating the severe warning, I told her to get to the basement with the other 2 and to wait for me in the safe room. I then called the EMA office as the funnel was dropping, I was about 8 minutes from my house and quickly drove home to my sisters. My parents were not home and I couldn't leave them at home alone while I sheltered in place, my gut was telling me that I needed to be with them I was willing to do whatever it took to get to them. I made it to the safe room about 5 minutes before the tornado tore through my neighborhood of Reflection Lake. We were lucky and don't have much damage, a neighbor's roof went through our window, the siding is in bad shape, and we have minor roof damage. Overall we are very lucky, no one in our family was hurt our house is still standing and livable. A lot of our neighbors are not as lucky, quite a few only have a foundation left. I don't think that I will ever forget that feeling when I saw the funnel forming over the direction of my house and not being able to gage how far away it was or the sound of the window being smashed in and the tornado only 50-60 yards away. The calm and silence right before the tornado hits is the most eerie sound you could ever hear. Currently there are no known fatalities, I believe that it was rated EF-3. This tornado took place 3 days after the anniversary of the April 26, 1991 EF-5 tornado that haunts this town, anyone who lived here at the time can tell you in detail where they were when the tornado hit. They say that the tornado that hit yesterday was on the ground for more that 20 minutes. My plan for the evening if my parents decided to stay home was to go out and chase, I never thought that I would be racing a funnel to my house. When I called I asked before I hung up if anyone else had called and if there were other spotters in the area, I was told that I was the first to report, I can only imagine what would have happened if I had done anything differently, would it have been reported in time, would my siblings and I have seen it in time to get to safety, how many lives would have been lost. I think these questions will haunt me for a while as I prosses what happened. I feel that when you have grown up around tornado alley and have lived through multiple tornados that never directly affected you, you almost get this sence that it couldn't happen to you that it is something that happens to other people a few miles away, but you never really know, it could be you being dug out of the rubble of your home next time. I will forever be grateful that we were spared, and I will never forget that feeling of driving hoping and praying that I would make it home in time, and the feeling of relief when it was all over and seeing my parents and grandparents safe. Looking at the footage and walking through the neighborhood I have come to realize just how close we were to being hit, the Lake and 3 home separated our home from those that are leveled, I pray for those less fortunate then us and plan on helping with clean up as soon as we are given the all clear.
My heart goes out to you and your family. It narrowly missed my neighborhood.I cannot fathom the horror of your experience. Praying for everyone affected.
A well-written and enthralling account. I hope your town is recovering: you've had so much tornado horror to deal with.
the fact that you can see a car on the second level of someone’s house at 3:41 is insane!! luckily we didn’t get hit on my side of the town but the destruction is immense in some places
Crazy to think this is essentially only 60% power of a full blown EF5. Imagine had this ramped up to an EF5 in a populated area like this. Glad there were no fatalities. Horrible situation for those affected by it but glad it was only property damage.
My heartfelt sympathies for all ya all in Andover! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU!
It was almost exactly 31 years ago to the day for the 1991 EF5 in Andover, April 26th. I was in Wichita on business from Atlanta and hadn't been there for more than 2 hours when the thing hit. I was staying at the Residence Inn off E. Kellogg somewhere near the Cessna plant and remember having hotel staff banging on my door to come to the storm shelter. Scary as hell.
I saw that tornado from my house it’s so sad that everybody lost their house 🙏🏽😥😓
My prayers are with you all! I pray that you all can rebuild your town and your lives much stronger! Know that God is with you!
Great footage, great audio choice. Thank you.
Great music, fits the scenes.
My phone was dead, live in trailer court, ran with dog, helped 3 elders on way , dude with baby, made it to shelter and met my brother /mom n there 5 dogs. Amen
Frightening to see how complete yet selective the damages are. Everything torn to shreds on one side and other homes left intact.
Prayers everybody gets to heal from this as quick as possible 🙏
My prayers to all affected 😇😇
How sad and devastating for all who suffered loss. Dreams of owning a home gone. I was in a terrible tornado in Emporia Kansas a very long time ago. To this day storms frighten me.
Gorgeous video. Insane damage...
EF3+. Will likely get upgraded. What a horrific tornado... The rotation was insane.
Weird that it took almost the same path as the 91' tornado. That system went right over my house at the time. This one missed us to the south this time, thank God.
No EF4 - EF5 type damage in any of the relevant aftermath photos or videos.In fact NSSL said initial windspeeds are consistent with strong EF2 -EF3.This will not be upgraded.
Just be thankfull no one was killed
I'm sending my prayers to everyone there seeing this is so heart breaking in all
prays for Andover, Kansas City, hope the community does wealth, i wish been there for any helping ppl and cleans up the destruction aftermath.
Kansans are a tough breed, they will recover better and stronger. God bless them all.
Oh my gosh! That was scary! I am prayer for you all people! I am so sorry about your loss homes.
Finally! storm chasers from my own state!
Oh wow! I have never seen these scenes of tremendous devastation in Andover KS before. The photographic evidence of so many homes ripped to pieces, Vehicles tossed around like toys and trees just twisted and torn, unrecognizable as trees. My Heart goes out to those Andover folks who list loved ones, whose homes and lives were torn up by the horrifying.power of that storm !
My heart is in pain seeing all this ,,i pray for all the victims and pray for them to recover soon
How sad 😭 can’t even imagine loosing my home hope those neighbors that still have theirs help all you that don’t anymore 🙏🏼
May God help everyone affected by this tornado.
Shocking... prayers for all affected.
God bless you all! I don't know how how you can live there! Horrible
Bravissimoo!
The sine-wave patterns of very viol*
It looks like a giant boat motor's propeller chewed through the neighborhood.
Or a battlefield that just had a bomb attack!
A very sad video to watch....But important! All the structures have interior walls standing. Anytime facing a tornado, it is ALWAYS better to shelter in place. This video shows that sheltering in place in the center of your home will save you! Just like the warning says from the National Weather Service. I ain't saying it is not scary af, but it is safer than running in your vehicle.
Je suis de tout coeur avec vous bon courage
That’s heartbreaking destruction right there… 🙁
SO AWFUL🙏LORD BE WITH THESE PEOPLE🙏🙏🙏
That was one wicked tornado! In Ihe live drone footage it plucked about 15 to 20 rooftops in less than 1 second!!! Better to lose the roof than have entire house sheared off its foundation.
first 1991 now 2022, i hope everyone is okay
My question is, why are they still using timber framing in those tornado areas?
Heartbreaking.
Did these houses have hurricane clips?
Those houses blew up so easily.
Nice video, but what's with the maudlin music? Try some lively "Oh no!" tiktok sounds to jazz things up a little!
There needs to be more investment in weather proof housing in areas prone to it. This is getting out of hand. Every week all you hear about are severe thunderstorms hitting the South and Midwest on a widespread basis
What do you suggest?
So sad.
These drone videos are enough to explain visually what happened. Lose the dramatic music. Nothing emotional needs to be added unless you are so called "woke".
They'll never look at homelessness the same ever again.
They can always rebuild over and over and over
the lady in the pink shorts is my spanish teacher😔
Oh man. I'm so sorry to hear that :( I hope her and her friends were okay!
As usual it looks like getting in your car would be safer than staying in your house.
we should live in sturdier dome homes
Time to build dome houses
Where is the sad emoji? Shocking devastation.
My house almost got hit by this tornado
A lot of people live on the plains urban sprawl perhaps mankind is just in the way
so sad
Complete devastation... God help 🙏us
PEOPLE OF USA THINKING OF YOU ALL ANDOVER PEOPLE AS WELL Barry new zealand
3:41
The only refuge is in Christ Jesus.
There is no way there were no deaths. Was no one in any of those houses ? A guy in Kentucky that was in a town hit by the EF5 last December reported that there were several more deaths than reported. I'm just really wondering why current tornado deaths are being under reported.
Tornado shelters
@@jonesfarm6501 I'm sure shelters saved some of them. But many houses don't have them. And even if they do, people are slow to get into them. So many just don't think they will get hit.
Actually, nearly all homes in these areas have basements or storm shelters.
99% have basements, and luckily the storm chasers and spotters called it in early.
They have got hit several times
All eat energy's now also prayers God Jesus Christ
no need to enhance the sorrow with dirge music....rejoice that so few folks were killed....
Nobody died 🙏👍 rebuilt . stronger homes ??
It's impractical to build every home strong enough to survive a tornado, simply because of how rare tornadoes are compared to how expensive it would be to survive them. I suspect it would cost less to build two homes each with a small shelter. Force scales with the square of wind speed, so to go from surviving say 90mph winds to 180mph winds, you'd need to build 4x stronger. To survive the strongest recorded tornado, you'd need to build 10x stronger, or build entirely underground.
There are 3M people in Kansas, and tornado damage is about $100M/year. So in a lifetime each person will lose on average ~$3k to replace property lost to tornadoes. There's no way you can reinforce a whole house to survive a tornado for that much money, so it's more practical to get a small shelter to protect your life, and insurance to cover the risk of losing your property.
There's also the fact that most people don't have the option of choosing a tornado-proof home. You'd only have that option if you're rich, and building a new home instead of buying one that's already on the market. Most people have to choose between buying a house and renting.
This is fuckin sad :(
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I don't know if this makes any sense
But shouldn't our government be giving financial aid to our citizens to help in these disaster instead of sending billions to a corrupt country that essentially are killing their own. I would like to think my taxpayer dollars are going to a worthy cause to help my fellow American in need. FJB.
It was a powerful Tornado but I can just tell buy looking at many of the homes that the build quality is garbage. These mass builders are just spitting out homes and putting in the bare minimum and city codes are way to weak. That Tornado would of done minimuim damage in Florida due to the code requirements for hurricanes...but in Kansas....homes are paper thin.
So make em all concrete???
@@millhousemillard2140 Concrete would help...but require metal straps around the roof trusts and make sure they are anchored into the concrete foundation at least.
th-cam.com/video/proGT6AtyJc/w-d-xo.html
@@SillyOne90 you know what an EF3 and higher can do right???
@@millhousemillard2140 Have you ever built a house before Millard? No one said the house would look like it wasn't touched, but anchoring in the roof and fortifying the walls for maybe 2000$ dollars worth of material would be a drastic difference in those pictures you see. I linked you a video of one of a dozen products that are out there that should be STANDARD...but builders only think about the end profit.
God did to us same what we did to Muslim
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Expensive d house for a flay of the life drop down? Is no funny
Pray first for Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria
Lets hope in the next week or so a violent mile wide plus ef5 mega wedge with 280 mile per hour winds hits a major populate region and tracks for 100 miles.
Lets get a monster and get a record high casualty count🌪🌪☠️🙂
So edgy, so brave!
Don't bother your neighbors. Even if thy loved thy neighbor. Those untouched homes most likely will be taken out in a week or two. Don't forget this 21st century is for EVERYBODY. AND, GOD MEANS EVERYBODY. NO EXCEPTIONS. HAVE A NICE DECADE
No one denies the heart ache and damage here.
Yet when anyone suggests these are not natural but ma n ma de.
That the facts, patents, testimonies and documents prove it
The conditioned mas ses
Scoff it off as cons pir acy.
Our sweet smiling lea ders would never co nspi re to hu rt & exp loit us ?
Imagine how much better our world would be....
If the large scale blind faith in man, was put back in the hands of Our Creator & God..... Instead of forked toun ged smiling bea uticrats...
Keep us fe arful and dependant and blind to the truth. And get away with day light ro bbery and mu rder.
Who do you want to spend your eter nity with ?
Putting ones faith in man instead of God never ends well !!
Let call Biden and remind him to help Ukraine ..He wanted 33 billion.. wow..
ALLAHC.CBOYLECEVAPVERIR...UNUTMAYIN..