Great video! I'm happy to see you sharing their stories. These narratives could have easily slipped into obscurity, but you're ensuring they remain alive and appreciated.

Watching from down in Saint Peter - the history of the tornado in ‘98 here is rich and connects this population. Hope to see a doc about it, too! The way the MN community came together to help this area was extraordinary.

My hometown of New Richmond WI was struck by an EF5 tornado on June 12, 1899, and at 117+ dead it ranks the deadliest in Wisconsin and 9th in the nation.

Great video! There should be other stories like the 1965 twin cities outbreak that could be told-maybe they should do it in other videos! 😮😮😮😮😮

This was really well done, incredibly sad and terrifying to think of. I’d read about the Sauk Rapids tornado a few times before. There are so many horrifying tornado events in this country’s history.

Top-shelf documentary. Excellent content, quality, production and presentation. A great job by all who produced it. I was touched by the personal nature of the subject for Mary Lahammer. I wish our country was completely populated by people like those whose stories were told. Their perseverance and heartiness in the face of these tragedies is evident in their progeny right up to today's generation.

I’m a bit disappointed they didn’t talk about the Tracy tornado. Multiple people died in that one. I lived in that town for a year right next to a monument that was built for it. Even in 1999 people were still affected by it and talked about it.

While this was a good program, I was surprised you did not include the 1965 tornado outbreak in the Twin Cities where many were injured and died. It was a night of terror that many will not forget. You really need to do a program on that night, and also of New Richmond, WI in 1899.

Paul Douglas is probably the most trusted and beloved weatherman (meteorologist) in Minnesota ever!

A couple years ago, I was in St Paul for a concert and I went to the historical museum and experienced the weather exhibit, including the tornado simulator. It actually helped me overcome my fear of tornadoes!

Great video Mary!!!! Hope you are well.

Hearing swift county was so weird because I'm literally in college the next county over! Pomme de terre??? I know her!

I saw a tornado starting to twist down in Bloomington when I was a teen. Was walking to meet my kid sister bc a storm was coming. As an adult w my own kid and my mom we moved to rural Minnesota. I experienced a scary tornado that made the air pulse hard. Wild thing ever. That one hit my sisters yard in silver creek. Another most recent one killed my cat. Woke up after sleeping in and my mom said there's a storm coming. Didn't even have a chance to get the cat inside. Something must have clobbered her in the head. Had to put her down bc she was seizing and unconscious but made it home first 😢...but I knew it was a tornado by the sound of it. Sure enough I went for a drive and a small tornado skipped along across the country side. Happy it skipped over our area but twisted up some oaks 1/4 mile away

What a beautiful story (book) to pass down.

Thanks for this video! I learned several things I had not known before. I like that the warning time for tornadoes has gotten longer and I hope the same eventually happens for earthquakes. When I was young, there would just suddenly be an earthquake and, at best with the hearing abilities of young ears, you might hear it coming if you were awake, but it didn't give you enough time to do much about it. When it comes to being close to the source of something dangerous, it doesn't warn you until you've already taken shelter, which seems similar to tornadoes that form right near you except for at least you know there's some weather coming before any tornado touches down. So far, I've been warned for three earthquakes: two that I didn't feel and one that I felt before they were able to send out the warnings. One of the warnings I got but didn't feel the earthquake was the result of the computer overestimating the magnitude of the earthquake and sending out the warning for a larger area than could feel it and I was in that larger area that didn't feel it. The other one I got that I didn't feel was probably one I didn't feel when it passed through because I was driving. Everyone I talked to who wasn't driving felt it. Then, for the third one that I did feel, the warning came right as I was heading for shelter because I had already felt it but it was maybe a second or two behind the actually shaking waves. That was pretty good considering that the earthquake started just a few miles from where I was. I'm glad tornadoes have a longer warning time because they are dangerous and damaging just if they pass near enough to you. The VAST majority of earthquakes are ones no one even feels and, of the ones that people do feel, the VAST majority of those just raise a person's heart rate and blood pressure. Even for the ones that do damage things, people are very likely to be fine if they take cover and, even if they don't, the VAST majority of people who feel the earthquake survive it even if it is really big and even if maybe their building has to be demolished because of all the damage. As buildings have become better built for the kind of motion that happens during an earthquake, you just have to be unlucky basically to die in an earthquake anymore. Then there's the fact that there really aren't that many serious earthquakes compared to how many legitimately dangerous tornadoes there are per year but I think it's a little bit similar when it comes to whether the building you're in is going to take a serious hit. Of course, tornadoes do hit outside of tornado alley and I've even seen one here in California but there have also been a few earthquakes in tornado alley and, interestingly, the largest earthquakes in the continental US have happened in Missouri. In any case, the strategy is similar: don't be scared but be prepared.

What a sad but beautiful story,even though tragedy and loss of life, it was an inspiring story, Thank you to this family who shared their story with us. God bless all of you.🩷

How was the sauk rapids not a ef 5? That damage was speechless. Immovable objects moved.

My grandfather told us about the Rochester tornado.😏

Darn I didn't think Minnesota got tornado's

State neighbor that gets way more tornadoes than our state. Probably not a great state to chase in though.

I'm curious to know how they rated these tornadoes that happened DECADES before tornadoes started getting rated? Dr. Fujita did not start rating tornadoes until 1971-2 and only RETRO rated back to 1950. The reason being was because it's impossible to rate tornadoes based on nothing but pictures and "stories", or number of deaths/injuries. Houses and structures built back in the 1800's weren't built and anchored to a foundation... most of them were "simple" wood frame structures (some weren't even "framed" at all). Pictures of damaged trees would probably be the best indicator, but even so, it could only be an "educated guess".

Hey come to Texas like right now 😮

Does not feature tornadoes. This video features narratives of people who experienced them.

Not "settlers", *invaders*.

What the hell happened to KZfaq? This is _awful_ !! Please restore it to how it looked earlier today.