1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak - various reports

Name: 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak - various reports
Uploaded: 2025-03-15
Duration: 1163 s
Channel: malgent
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Uploaded: 2025-03-15

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:01] from high above it looks like someone

[0:03] Dropped a Bomb on this trailer park

[0:06] homes tossed together like matchboxes

[0:09] semi-trailers tipped on their sides

[0:11] Twisted Metal and debris everywhere

[0:14] Edward Taber was watching TV shortly

[0:17] before 1:00 this morning when all hell

[0:20] broke loose like it sounds like a train

[0:23] I spun around once the storm hit there

[0:25] was little time for victims here to do

[0:27] much of anything eyewitnesses tell us

[0:29] the storm that flattened their trailer

[0:31] park lasted little more than 3 minutes

[0:35] tab suffered just a few cuts and

[0:37] scratches but he's one of the lucky ones

[0:39] the woman who lived next door to him was

[0:41] killed Florida's governor and lieutenant

[0:44] governor came by this afternoon to view

[0:47] the damage well we're talking about now

[0:49] whether we need to move some uh to get

[0:51] some temporary housing in for some of

[0:52] these people the tornadoes that ravaged

[0:54] this Four County area have so far

[0:56] claimed 34 lives making this a far

[1:00] deadlier storm than even Hurricane

[1:02] Andrew Sheriff's officials fear the

[1:04] death count will climb even higher we

[1:07] still have uh eight folks that are

[1:09] unaccountable for right now meanwhile

[1:12] survivors like Edward tab can do little

[1:14] more than look on and give thanks that

[1:17] they were somehow

[1:22] spared

[1:24] say first thought was my kids you know

[1:27] to get them covered up and um

[1:30] the next thing was just it just it it it

[1:32] seemed to go in slow motion like it was

[1:34] happening in slow motion but it really

[1:36] took just seconds for a tornado to whip

[1:39] through Cathy shell nut's apartment

[1:40] building tearing down her walls a