Rochester F5 Tornado: 125 years ago


	Rochester F5 Tornado: 125 years ago
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6-8-2009 7:27 AM
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Thanks to the partnership of W.W. Mayo, his two sons, and the sisters of St. Francis, who all cared for the injured afterward, Mayo Clinic would eventually be formed. All because the sky turned black.
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6-8-2009 11:22 AM
tanyamm
Nature can be so cruel and unpredictable. And sometimes from this tragedy, something good happens.
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                                <P><SPAN><STRONG>BEFORE TORNADO</STRONG></SPAN></p> <P><SPAN><STRONG><BR /></STRONG></SPAN></p> <P><IMG height=" " width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/before-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg" /></p> <HR />
<P> </p> <P><SPAN><STRONG>AFTER TORNADO</STRONG></SPAN></p> <P><SPAN><STRONG><BR /></STRONG></SPAN></p> <P><IMG height=" " width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/after-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg" /></p> <HR />
<P> </p> <P><IMG height=" " width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/cascade-park.jpg" /></p> <HR />
<P> </p> <P><IMG width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/me-church.jpg" /></p> <HR />
<P> </p> <P><IMG height=" " width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill.jpg" /></p> <HR />
<P> </p> <P><IMG height=" " width="600" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill-2.jpg" /></p> <BR /></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171" href="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kttc.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171"><P>Cheryl Finnegan, an educator with the Olmsted County Historical Society, says, "The cyclone came in the evening. Um, 6 o'clock, the clouds turned green. And it hit Cascade Creek and destroyed Lower Town."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171"><P>The Lower town Chery Finnegan is talking about is north Rochester. And what looks like this today, looked like this on August 21, 1883. An F-5 twister, the strongest rating a tornado can have, tore through the northern side of town.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171"><P>Cheryl says, "It was devastating. 29 people were killed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171"><P>Cheryl says, "The cyclone came so fast. And it was over in 10 minutes, and afterwards the sky was clear."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171">And no one was warned the storm was coming. All they heard, was a loud roar.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://kttcweather.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/rochester-f5-tornado-125-years-ago/" href="http://kttcweather.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/rochester-f5-tornado-125-years-ago/" style="font-size: 11px;">kttcweather.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kttcweather.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/rochester-f5-tornado-125-years-ago/"><P></p> <P>Before
<A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/before-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg?w=300"><IMG height="168" width="300" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/before-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg?w=300&h=168" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-922" /></A></p> <P>After
<A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/after-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg?w=300"><IMG height="169" width="300" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/after-tornado-hit-rochester.jpg?w=300&h=169" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-923" /></A></p> <P>Cascade Park
<A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/cascade-park.jpg?w=300"><IMG height="178" width="300" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/cascade-park.jpg?w=300&h=178" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-924" /></A></p> <P><A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/me-church.jpg?w=231"><IMG height="300" width="231" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/me-church.jpg?w=231&h=300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-925" /></A></p> <P>View from Coles Mill
<A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill.jpg?w=300"><IMG height="168" width="300" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill.jpg?w=300&h=168" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-926" /></A></p> <P><A href="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill-2.jpg?w=240"><IMG height="300" width="240" alt="" src="http://kttcweather.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/view-from-coles-mill-2.jpg?w=240&h=300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-927" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kttcweather.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/rochester-f5-tornado-125-years-ago/"><P>Be sure to check out Steph’s story, including video, by <A href="http://www.kttc.com/global/story.asp?s=8880171">clicking here</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7CD36B9-B660-42F6-B7EA-AF8699191E42/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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