Tornado in Portland Michigan, Lastnight

[Michibacy]

Well, our wonderful Michigan weather kicked up an F1 tornado and did a whole lot of damage. Still waiting to hear what total damage cost was, but from the looks of it, millions for sure, and a lot of historically old buildings are damaged, some beyond repair. No one killed, only 5 minor injuries.

Keep us all in your prayers!

(pictures not my own, they are gathered from a community page on Facebook)



No sirens were alerted, some Tornado watches were issued, but this thing popped up out of nowhere.

http://wlns.com/2015/06/23/tornado-twists-up-city-of-portland/ <--- Local news article

 

[Michibacy]

 

[darren1979]

Looks awful reminds me of the photos you see from airaids over Britain during wwII. Hope the people injured make a speedy recovery and keep safe.

 

[Hasse SWE]

It happens alot around you..

 

[Ben Brand]

Best of luck to you all. So glad we don`t get those in SA.

 

[Michibacy]

Latest update from the Chief of Police for Portland as well as one of the main clean up crews hired to clean the area. A projected 2 year time span until everything is all cleared up, over 600 good sized trees are down, 70 houses effected, still no one hurt, all electrical and utilities are back in operation.

Some people were arrested for looting a store, after the roof was taken off and the shop owners were almost taken up into the tornado,

Police were on scene for 2 days keeping onlookers out of the immediate area.