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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish
I've seen this type of destruction before. I was a kid living in Topeka when an F5 in tornado hit the city on June 8th 1966. An 8 mile path of destruction that was about 1/2 mile wide as it cut through town.
Only lost 16 lives. 14 during the storm and 2 from heart attacks before and after. Bill Curtis, who would go on to some fame at CBS later in his career, uttered the famous words:"For God's sake take cover" over the air at WIBW.
The most vivid memory was picking up law school documents that blew into my yard from Washburn University about 10 miles away.
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We had family friends that worked for the Shawnee County Sheriff Dept. that lost homes but all survived. I remember as a kid, my uncle and his sons, Dad, my brother and I to go help them. It was the 1st tornado damage I had ever seen as a kid.I remember always taking cover for one but never seeing the destruction on one till then.
So much for the theory / myth that the hill on the west side would shield Topeka from a twister.