TORNADO HITS WEST ST. LOUIS – Search & Rescue in Process- 3 Dead Near Rolla (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, December 31, 2010, 1:19 PM
Police broadcasts were the first to report that a tornado touched down in West St. Louis County.
Search and rescue teams were dispatched to the area just west of St. Louis City.
Emergency teams rescued West County residents from their homes. (Video here)
O’Leary’s Restaurant was hit today and is marked on the map.
The local channels are not yet reporting the news.
Thousands were left without any power.
Update: Local KMOV is reporting on the destruction outside of St. Louis.
The South County Times reported:
Severe weather blew through St. Louis County New Year’s Eve at midday with high winds and possible tornados causing damage in Crestwood, Sunset Hills and Fenton.
Telephone poles are down in Crestwood near the intersection of Watson and Sappington roads. In Sunset Hills, Lindbergh Boulevard is closed south of Watson, where a possible tornado caused extensive damage to a business complex that includes O’Leary’s restaurant. Homes across the street from the complex have been completely devastated. There is more damage at Watson and Interstate 44.
Their are reports that 3 women died near Rolla, Missouri.
Here is amateur video of the tornado moving through the Rolla area, via KSDK:
The local media has not yet confirmed that it was a tornado.
I was within 10 miles of the destruction and we did not even experience high winds.
Sunset Hills, Missouri took a direct hit from the storm with widespread damage along south Lindbergh Boulevard. (KMOV)
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 59 Comments
Jet Jaguar commented:
It’s Bush’s fault.
Kenny Solomon commented:
My thoughts and prayers to anyone affected and in the path of the storms.
ar05075 commented:
My prayers to all in the area.
Wading Across commented:
Heard sirens several times this morning. Yeesh.
bigkahuna commented:
GLOBAL WARMING Call Al Gore.. Maybe he can fly his private plane in and save everyone.
Wading Across commented:
Natural disasters like this continually remind me of the common sense desire for emergency preparedness for my home…
Sadly I’ve not got our home as prepared for an emergency as I’d like.
Chisum commented:
Al Gore? He’s everywhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7hdtzp-P8&feature=player_embedded
Ginger commented:
The area on Lindbergh, I saw a electric pole down, several nice homes just torn apart. WE were watching it on Fox 2. So far no one injured are killed. They are going to do enother sweep.
One tornado was sited going over Bonne Terre, Missouri.
egoist commented:
Have 2 portions of my family in the Sunset Hills / Sappington area – within 1/4 mile of all of that. And about 4 other households within areas hard hit. None of them are in trouble. Crestwood sounds like it got slammed – poles split & hanging from wires.
Let’s hope the new congress blast into power with this force, and uproots a lot of statism that managed to settle in over recent times.
bg commented:
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At least 5 dead in Ark., Mo. tornadoes..
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JeremyR commented:
Sigh. The weatherlady on Channel 5 apparently blamed this on global warming.
One of the the last big tornadoes to hit St. Louis was back in 1967 and it was in January. (I remember as my mother was working at the library where it hit. She was okay, but saved the newspaper clipping about it…)
egoist commented:
“The weatherlady on Channel 5 apparently blamed this on global warming.”
There are those that are weather-wise, and those that are otherwise – B. F.
NYT claimed that the extreme cold results from climate change. Not sure how people that dumb will fare when they’re freezing to death for lack of 1st world energy production. Unfortunately – for us – I think we’ll find out.
Jeffersonian commented:
My home was Ground Zero for the April tornado in Kirkwood, while we were in Atlanta visiting relatives. We were in Atlanta again today and now this. I think we need to stick closer to home, for everyone’s sake.
Big Mo commented:
I have family and close friends scattered about this area. Three families with whom we are very close live literally next door to the hard-hit Sunset Hills. On their respective blocks, nothing. But a street or two over are cars tossed, roofs ripped and trees down. Like Jim Hoft, we experienced very little of the storm, while a mile or two away it raged.
Weird thing is, my wife, boys and I were going to be shopping right there today in Sunset Hills, and in fact were about 10 minutes away from leaving for the shopping complexes at Lindbergh and Watson (Borders, Home Depot, etc.) when the first siren went off. Glad we were running behind as usual!
William O. B'Livion commented:
The big question is who put a trailer part in Sunset Hills, and how did they keep it hidden for so long?
Mike Smith commented:
If you would like to read how the tornadoes were tracked and warned, go here: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/01/thank-you-missouri-governor-nixon.html
Diane Valencen commented:
No word yet from Pat Robertson on what sin these people committed to be targeted by the wrath of G-d?