I was 9yrs old at the time & lived at 72 & Lafeyette. My mother was in Bergan Mercy hospital. Neighbor couple houses down. Was screaming for us kids to go with her to Bergan Mercy hospital, to be with my mother. My older brother & I ran towards them. While my older sister & younger brother, ran to the next-door neighbor's house. After my brother & I made it to the neighbor's. We were told to stay together with sister & brother. Running back to the next-door neighbor's house. I could see the huge tornado. It looked like the size of Creighton Prep (a mile wide). Creighton Prep is on the other side of 72nd street, from my home. We were about to enter the neighbors' garage & basement. When my neighbor grab me & threw me inside, slamming the door shut. Seconds after the door closed, the tornado hit the house. Sounded like a freight train going right through the house. We were all safe, damages to the neighbors & my home, was pretty minimal compared to some of the neighbors. My neighbor at the top of the hill was deaf & no-one thought to inform her. Sadly, she was one of the people who lost her life. My dad was electrician working at the time. With all the construction noise, didn't hear the tornado siren. When a worker pointed out to my dad the tornado. My dad turning to look, what worker was pointing at. Tornado sucked my dad, out of the building. When my father landed. It was backwards on his back, snapping his back. My father had sever back troubles, until the day he passed 2006. Was a scary night May 6th with both of my parents now in the hospital. My neighborhood were all on mandatory lock down, after dark. Felt like a war zone. With all the military trying to keep, what was left of people's belongings safe. I remember hearing & seeing the military helicopters. Flying over my home at night, shining their lights. Looking for looters.
My friend was at her grandmother's in Ralston, near 84th and L and they barely made it into the basement before the tornado hit. My ex-husband was not quite 5 years old at the time and he can still recall looking out the kitchen window at his grandma's house, about a mile east of Benson Park and seeing the dark, swirling clouds in they sky and hearing the sirens going off. What's eerie about that day for him was his great-grandma was buried that morning as she had died a few days before.
I survived this. Lived in Benson neighborhood near 65th and Bedford. Most of the neighbors were complete idiots standing in the middle of the street watching it approach. It decimated our neighborhood. Took months to clean up. We had half of someone's roof in our backyard and the horse tank was drained of water and left bone dry in the tornado's wake.
This brings back a lot of memories. I was a weather observer stationed at Offutt AFB the day of the tornado. Myself and another observer were out at the weather site and extremely busy taking observations since the weather was changing rapidly. The chief observer made sure there were two qualified people instead of only one which was the norm. Two names that came to mind watching this were Jim Zoller and Ed Zorinsky.
I used to go to Westgate elementary a few years ago, we do all sorts of memorials of this storm as it is educational on safety. There's a sign in front of the school saying 1957-1975, referencing the years of the first building's construction and it's demolition from the tornado. The other memorial is, every year on the day that that tornado happened, we would learn about the damages and everything around that
I was at my girlfriends house having dinner.i think it was around 4:30. We went to the basement.i remember her mother falling asleep and hearing the news guy crying on the radio.
At the age of only eleven I had to choose to run southward toward home AND the approaching tornado (which was heading northerly) or ditch that and find shelter somewhere, leaving my mother to possibly go out looking for me, putting HER in the path of that ... thing. I chose to shakily run homeward bound, toward the tornado. Fortunately for me the tornado went more eastward after the railroad tracks and I80 interstate. Instead of continuing its apparent path north toward us there in westridge. What a relief to get to my basement, though. Regardless if the tornado was passing along, nearby, east of us, through Westgate.
I lived in an apartment at 82nd and Blondo and had come down 72nd street, north from Interstate 80 about 10 minutes before it hit. At Creighton Prep high school on 74th and Western Avenue, it literally sucked the grass out of the ground by the roots, leaving a brown bare path across the athletic field. It also partially crushed the roof of Nebraska Furniture Mart on 72nd St.. 72nd St was the main North/South street and had the tornado hit just a little later, it would have been bumper to bumper with people just getting off work.
I was 4, I was at my friend playing in her yard. I ran her up to her house and grabbed my other friend and ran her down to the other end of the block got her inside and ran up to my house. I was told to go downstairs in the basement, I was terrified if the basement. I had to go by my self.
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I was 9yrs old at the time & lived at 72 & Lafeyette. My mother was in Bergan Mercy hospital. Neighbor couple houses down. Was screaming for us kids to go with her to Bergan Mercy hospital, to be with my mother. My older brother & I ran towards them. While my older sister & younger brother, ran to the next-door neighbor's house. After my brother & I made it to the neighbor's. We were told to stay together with sister & brother. Running back to the next-door neighbor's house. I could see the huge tornado. It looked like the size of Creighton Prep (a mile wide). Creighton Prep is on the other side of 72nd street, from my home. We were about to enter the neighbors' garage & basement. When my neighbor grab me & threw me inside, slamming the door shut. Seconds after the door closed, the tornado hit the house. Sounded like a freight train going right through the house. We were all safe, damages to the neighbors & my home, was pretty minimal compared to some of the neighbors. My neighbor at the top of the hill was deaf & no-one thought to inform her. Sadly, she was one of the people who lost her life. My dad was electrician working at the time. With all the construction noise, didn't hear the tornado siren. When a worker pointed out to my dad the tornado. My dad turning to look, what worker was pointing at. Tornado sucked my dad, out of the building. When my father landed. It was backwards on his back, snapping his back. My father had sever back troubles, until the day he passed 2006. Was a scary night May 6th with both of my parents now in the hospital. My neighborhood were all on mandatory lock down, after dark. Felt like a war zone. With all the military trying to keep, what was left of people's belongings safe. I remember hearing & seeing the military helicopters. Flying over my home at night, shining their lights. Looking for looters.
My friend was at her grandmother's in Ralston, near 84th and L and they barely made it into the basement before the tornado hit. My ex-husband was not quite 5 years old at the time and he can still recall looking out the kitchen window at his grandma's house, about a mile east of Benson Park and seeing the dark, swirling clouds in they sky and hearing the sirens going off. What's eerie about that day for him was his great-grandma was buried that morning as she had died a few days before.
Was you guys ok 👌 this is Justin Flack
I lived there then... I was a teenager and was so scared. The sky was dark as night.
I remember that day well, we lived in an apt. and went under the stairs. Nice to see Jim!
I survived this. Lived in Benson neighborhood near 65th and Bedford. Most of the neighbors were complete idiots standing in the middle of the street watching it approach. It decimated our neighborhood. Took months to clean up. We had half of someone's roof in our backyard and the horse tank was drained of water and left bone dry in the tornado's wake.
This brings back a lot of memories. I was a weather observer stationed at Offutt AFB the day of the tornado. Myself and another observer were out at the weather site and extremely busy taking observations since the weather was changing rapidly. The chief observer made sure there were two qualified people instead of only one which was the norm. Two names that came to mind watching this were Jim Zoller and Ed Zorinsky.
I used to go to Westgate elementary a few years ago, we do all sorts of memorials of this storm as it is educational on safety. There's a sign in front of the school saying 1957-1975, referencing the years of the first building's construction and it's demolition from the tornado. The other memorial is, every year on the day that that tornado happened, we would learn about the damages and everything around that
I was at my girlfriends house having dinner.i think it was around 4:30. We went to the basement.i remember her mother falling asleep and hearing the news guy crying on the radio.
I hope 🤞 those people are ok 👌 during the 1975 tornado 🌪
I live Omaha Nebraska
Same
I will never forget that day ever, I was 10 years old . I still remember . My friends horses were killed in Ralston.
Was that across the street from Ralston HS? I was at soccer practice, watched it form, touch down, then we ran in to school locker rooms.
At the age of only eleven I had to choose to run southward toward home AND the approaching tornado (which was heading northerly) or ditch that and find shelter somewhere, leaving my mother to possibly go out looking for me, putting HER in the path of that ... thing.
I chose to shakily run homeward bound, toward the tornado.
Fortunately for me the tornado went more eastward after the railroad tracks and I80 interstate. Instead of continuing its apparent path north toward us there in westridge.
What a relief to get to my basement, though. Regardless if the tornado was passing along, nearby, east of us, through Westgate.
I lived in an apartment at 82nd and Blondo and had come down 72nd street, north from Interstate 80 about 10 minutes before it hit. At Creighton Prep high school on 74th and Western Avenue, it literally sucked the grass out of the ground by the roots, leaving a brown bare path across the athletic field. It also partially crushed the roof of Nebraska Furniture Mart on 72nd St..
72nd St was the main North/South street and had the tornado hit just a little later, it would have been bumper to bumper with people just getting off work.
I was 4, I was at my friend playing in her yard. I ran her up to her house and grabbed my other friend and ran her down to the other end of the block got her inside and ran up to my house. I was told to go downstairs in the basement, I was terrified if the basement. I had to go by my self.
OMG 😲
It started at 132nd & Q not 84th & L
I remember i wasn’t born…
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