MAN FILMS MONSTER TORNADO HITTING HIS HOUSE! Fairdale IL  

I agree

Ditto! But now it seems to me that it's more like what one would hear if standing on the launch pad of a huge rocket at take-off, which of course no one would survive. And it is truly miraculous Mr. Schultz survived the tornado. What a horrifying thing to experience.

I've heard a few but nothing like this. I graduated from Rochelle Township H.S. and knew some of the victims who survived as the storm barely missed that town to the North. (Fairdale is 19 miles from Rochelle and was along the path it took from the SW to the NE) so this hit home for me. I lived well into the Chicago area by then, but I was frantic to make sure everyone out there I knew was okay. Anyhow, the saddest part of this video, is while the man who filmed this survived despite being on the top level of his home, his wife, who was downstairs, didn't make it and died as a result of the injuries she sustained.

A tornado does not sound like a fright train it sounds like 20 of them when it’s right on top of you, I’ve experienced it

That was unreal.

@Majakanvartija definitely better to assume it’s coming towards you.

It’s best to play it safe instead of just vibing to the sound

@Majakanvartija yeah I mean I wouldn't assume that though

Usually trying to flee from a tornado is discouraged but had he and his wife got into their car and got the hell out of there then she might still be alive.

@@DrLuke49 nah, they would be stuck unable to drive or see where they were driving. You don't think torrential rain with several hundred mph winds hinders driving? Also what tends to happen is everyone tries to leave, meaning everyone is stuck in a traffic jam during a tornado.

Correct. Unbelievable.

It saved his life too, whereas the floor beneath him collapsed onto his wife below, which is deeply sad.

Poor guys wife and her friend died downstairs while he was upstairs.The whole second floor collapsed on them.He was lucky.

​@osorissalgado3831 I think he passed, they survived

@@dreadred92 No, he survived. His wife passed away.

Well said 👍

@@ryans6280 Except, there already has been. I would be careful about making absolute statements like this in the future. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h0IdDj3y5l8.html

@@realtsavo 2 very different videos, he was right, there will likely never be footage quite like this video, the video you linked just didn't have the level of insanity as this video, the video you linked wasn't a extreme very unsurvivable event like the tornado in this video. Iv seen videos similar to the video you linked, tad above average tornado,very impressive (like all tornados) but NEVER have i seen a video quite like this one though, who knows maybe never will again.

@@realtsavoBe careful about what, his statement is still correct. that second video is pretty intense but no where as intense as the silence before a EF4 looking tornado quietly walks towards your house. Doesn’t get any realer than that.

no sorry that video you linked is nowhere near as terrifying as the one here@@realtsavo

It was like seeing something out of a horror movie.

I didn't hear anything. No shaky breaths, no cries of fear. I just heard the wind. Are you hearing something I didnt?

@@MrKirk94 Basically the only sound you can hear for the first 1 minute and 23 seconds is his shaky breathing.

I can even hear his swallow his saliva

@@cleotorres5632 Ew wtf

You got that right !

Unfortunately his wife didn't survive

His wife did not survive. She was downstairs. Gone Outta Here 😮

@@mantis10_surf85 How unfortunate. They tell you to get as low as possible.

The same tornado, there is a guy from Rochelle where the tornado passed literally right in front of him

I feel bad at the same time but, he is stupid how he is just recording tornado about to suck him in, he probably wants to meat death

@@user-ws8yg8ns6j he is 85 years old. he couldnt have out ran that or had time to get his wife dog start the car and drive away. oh and by the way its meet not meat

@@user-ws8yg8ns6j saw someone saying he's wheelchair bound, upstairs. not much he can do.

He sincerely thought the tornado was passing to the right of his house and you can see at first it looks so but if the tornado looks bigger and bigger to you it is coming at YOU.

​@@Yyyyzyyylost meaning she died as a result of this tornado she was in the home along with him just downstairs

He was stuck in his wheelchair. He had no choice sadly. He took that opportunity to document one of the most horrifying natural disaster videos I have ever seen though. I feel horrible that he lost his wife.

I’ve watched this vid before but I didn’t realize til now, in the beginning you can kinda see the dead man walking which means multiple vortices

@@mazzy1cobrafan835 the camera man died here?

@@tens9100no he survived, there’s a whole story behind it. I don’t remember it exactly, you’d have to find it

@@tens9100him and his dog survived. His wife and neighbor lady who were huddled in the bathtub downstairs did not, regrettably. Just goes to prove what I’ve always said: I don’t care who you are or what you are doing, when it’s your time to depart from this world, you will. If it’s not your time, you won’t……

Dope

For what? To know what death and destruction @ 200mph sounds like?? It's just a whole mess of darkness. It's the path that should be recorded (safely).

Agreed, its crazy how it only has 700k views to. There tornado videos with 5m+ views that isnt't as intense and crazy as this video

@@Diabolical05 it was stolen and reposted dozens of times

Ofc he lived, he’s the camera man.

He shouldn't have been dumb

@@joshheaton2361 he was 84 he couldnt outrun it

​@@joshheaton2361 you shouldn't have been this dumb

@@joshheaton2361 maybe you should think before typing🤣

@@Gabriel-nv3ib don't care

Apparently Pretty Accurate As Well. I Mean This Thing Made A B-Line For Clem’s House, And Scored A Direct Hit.

Some tornadoes forward speed can reach up to 50 mph and some are as slow as 5 mph. It’s rough to distinguish unless you’re chase or in the direct path of it

I think the faster it's moving the better, the one that hit Jarell, or Jarrel forgive my spelling, was moving so slow it was almost like sitting on top of them doing EF5 damage.

@@icalloutthenerds correct. The Jarrell Tornado had a moving speed of 10-15 mph but it was so strong, that it managed to shred structures and shred flesh from livestock. Truly a gruesome storm.

@@luishernndez8367 Brutal. It also seems to have taken a very strange path, like it wanted to go right for that subdivision.

Oh the sound of reapers howling while a massive funnel of wind hurls your direction?...

Its like his phone got fucking deepfried

You're telling me!

2:04 sounds like a portal to Hell opened up

it truly is

Use headphones, then turn the sound to the max and its like that

@@unbanzua5533 I just did that and it was terrifying. It was so fast too. It was gone within 3 seconds of arriving.

@@ashsworld9990 the sound would be terrifying enough alone, but the pressure drop inside a strong tornado like this would easily burst eardrums.

@PlusDZN honestly no clue but it’s pretty incredible that the phone’s mic wasn’t ruined when the noise got to “demons screaming” levels

Yea phones audio can’t really pick up sounds this loud

Yeah, and even then a video doesn't do it justice.. Winds so strong you can feel the ground shake is terrifying in person!

​@@fredrikcarlen3212 Wow! I bet it is. 😱

The wind literally screams like a demon yeaa man i hear that too. this shit is scary and dark.

His wife died in this tornado...the finger of god

Same. Absolutely terrifying video. It chills me to the bone every single time.

Agreed, it’s very terrifying the closer it got

Look into the super outbreak of April 27th 2011. You may already have but if not, it's a fascinating and terrifying outbreak. I'm in North Alabama which was extremely hard hit. The most severe EF5 of the day went just north of me by a few miles and destroyed homes of people that I knew. One of my friends at work helped clean up the town of Phil Campbell which he lived about 2 miles outside of. It was hit devastatingly hard by the EF5 and the town was basically wiped off the map. He told me gruesome stories that I'm not going to mention here publicly. Stuff that I truly didn't know was physically possible. These things are freaking scary y'all. But I kind of have a phobia LOL.

Whats his name?

​@MUKJEB bru -- Clarence "Clem" Schultz. His step-daughter is Michelle Rowan who posts on a lot of these posts. Michelle's mother was killed on the main level. Apparently, Clem now lives with or near Michelle and is about to turn 93. He was not wheelchair-bound when the tornado hit, as a lot of uninformed people post.

@@rbsolol The guy recording is "Clem" Clarence Schultz and his wife was Geri Schultz. Unsure of the neighbor's name. Clem is actually a tornado safety advocate these days and he's done interviews of his experience, which you can find on Google.

@@rbsolol clem schultz im pretty sure

It the man Fault his wife died He should have just went downstairs and Got his wife to take shelter

And yet, for some reason, most houses down there don't have basements. You'd think they would, but no. Let's not build basements under our homes. It makes no sense lol

@@thegrandpencil4374the guy in the video wife died from hiding in a basement.

@@notthatguy7578 You're suppose to hide in the basement. If that's how it happened, she was doing the right thing.

No shit man. I am amazed that you couldn't hear him breathing heavy or anything.

He had no basement and he couldn't go anywhere else, he probably was filming it and accepting that he wouldn't survive. If that were me, I would do the same thing.

​@@jhenxou4721 If it were me I'd run for my car and get tf out of there lol. If the guy in the video was younger he could have easily escaped

@@rileyxbell you and everyone else would just be jamming up the roads. Even without traffic, tornadoes are hard to outrun

@@rileyxbell he was 84

Well as this was being filemd, the wife of the man holding the camera, was dying as the house fell on her and crushed her as soon as it hit. Just a little dose of reality for you

@@rebeccareich6574 yeah also keep on mind they’re in their 80s. He probably couldnt just sprint down the hall and down the stairs. I bet he thought “i’ve lived a good life. This is how I go.”

@@boyceway5947 I bet that's what he was thinking to!

The tornado 321 km/h and 200 mp/h

Omg

Some people are calm no matter what happens, my husband is one like that. Someone once turned in front of him and he couldn’t stop in time and he merely said very quietly, ‘oh no’ just before impact.

Reed Timmer is paid to freak out for dramatic effect.

Gee thanks, always wanted to know what hell on Earth sounds like in macro detail to brighten my day. 🙄😂

@@netweed09🤡

@@allahmoe1557 Hm, so you can post selfies. Do you always look like that?

@@netweed09 hmm?

@@allahmoe1557 ?

Maybe you can explain to me why people move into or build houses as cheaply as possible in tornado alleys. I mean on a large scale, it's definitely a scam by land developers who build these houses knowing full well they will get knocked down and have to be rebuilt. However, people choose to live in these types of places. They obviously aren't poor so what am I missing? Why endanger your life and the life of your family?

God bless and keep on blessing you and your family.

@theartist359 You can't just abandon some of the most fertile land in the United States on a maybe. I live in the city and there are certain houses at a handful of intersections that over the years get nailed by drunk repeatedly( usually speeding as well). That's far more often than any individual Place gets hit by a tornado except possibly Andover, Kansas and Moore Oklahoma.

@@Smedley1947 living in tornado alley is not a maybe... the state should mandate building requirements for tornados. atleast tornado shelter should be mandatory in every house. this shit happens every year in the tornado season. seriously makes 0 sense not to have safety requirements. is like telling car manufactures that they dont need to make seat belts for their cars because maybe drivers wont have a crash.

Lived in KS and NE for a good portion of my life and was lucky enough to never be hit by a tornado though there were a few close calls. But yes, that pressure drop especially just makes my blood run cold. It’s the wildest feeling and you’re just waiting for something to come out of the sky right on top of you.

I don't think Congress gives an award for bravery, but if they gave one for stupidity they could retire the Award in his name.

​​@@DSelwyn21bruh this was an old 90 yo guy who was in wheelchair He lost his wife and couldnt walk or move the wheelchair on his own

@@willg1088 Really, the guy was in the kitchen when his wife spotted the tornado from a window and then he went upstairs to get lanterns.....in a wheelchair ???? He was standing next to the chimney when it collapsed on top of him, but he was in a wheelchair ?????

Don't confuse bravery with stupidity

Brave??? I don't think that's quite the right word for it.

Man is a legend for recording this.

@patrick k Didn't even scream to take cover

@@kcfilmstudio He knew they were toast. You can’t cover from an F4.

@patrick k Old folks are rational. You can't hide from a massive tornado. There's nothing he could have done to save his wife.

have you seen pecos hank and his recording of the el reno tornado?

Dude literally froze with fear can’t say I wouldn’t do the same honestly

Glad to hear from a Storm Chaser!

I grew up in Waterman just South of DeKalb, but ended up graduating high school in Rochelle in 2006. When the storm hit, I lived in the suburbs, but was frantically calling everyone I knew out there. I too traveled out there once it was allowed. The mere destruction still sticks in my mind like it was yesterday.

Wonder if it was an F4 or F5?

EF4. Also to note, that the difference between an F0 and EF0 is because the National Weather Service used an New Tornado Rating system in 2007, an updated version of Dr. Ted Fujita's Tornado Rating scale. @@bkkorner

​@@bkkorner F4 I believe

He's a savage for standing there like nothing was coming

And to lose his wife in the storm afterwards.😟

Damm fr they didn’t have a basement

He wasn’t recording in awe. He went to the attic to get flashlights and he saw the tornado and figured he didn’t have time to get to the basement so he started recording, though it seems he had more than enough time to get to safety if he moved fast enough and his wife died waiting for him to come back down

@@yelhsanosnhoj6602 dam that’s horrible even though I’m not with my bm because she don’t like me I still love her for giving me an amazing kid I guess I would be hurt if she died so I can’t even deal with losing a love one .

Notice the closer it got, the less color existed. Literal black and white

Weirdly fitting for Wizard of Oz!

This isnt 2019.

NC redbird his wife died

I was in a tornado before when I was only 3, to this day I am still traumatized. Every time there is severe thunderstorms I am scared shitless, I am 21 years old

How did it sound and feel? How strong was it? That’s so crazy I can’t even imagine living through something like that. The power of nature is scary and mesmerizing.

@@erko78 it was loud, very loud. Made of ears pop painfully. The strength of it is really hard to put into words that describe it well enough. It felt like being both blown and sucked from different directions, so strong that trying to lift an arm to Brace felt hopeless and in an instant all strength goes away... And so did the storm. It took ages it seemed before we could properly put any coherent thought together for us. That was the first and hopefully last time I have to see that. Our daughter was only a year old, we went to have a vacation.. Well I'll just say it sucked ass. It terrified us and thankfully none lost their lives that I'm aware of . I'll just study them from the safety of the screen, once was enough for us. I will say it left me with a whole new respect for mother nature. Crazy she is.

This storm hit close to home for me. It is sometimes referred to as the Rochelle/Fairdale Torando. I used to live in Rochelle, graduated H.S. there, and knew many people affected by the storm. It took a path that damaged parts of several townships, including parts of Rochelle, along with flattening Fairdale mostly. Anyhow, I get what you're saying, but this couple had one small cellar they didn't have time to get to. You need to understand, these kinds of violent tornadoes are so very rare for that part of Illinois, that most warnings amount to nothing. My guess is these older people didn't realize how dire the situation was until it was too late. By that time he knew he didn't have time to take cover really and he opted to film instead. He is also quite elderly and maybe thought it was his time to go anyhow. And what a way to go, creating some of the best footage most have ever seen. With that said, his wife unfortunately did perish despite her being on the lower level of the home (not the cellar).

Me to I’m physically shaking it’s insane

I myself am beginning to have nightmares of this video so much so that it’s not even funny like why?😭

@nozzzzy I'm fortunate enough to have never witnessed a tornado first hand despite living in the southern US. I hear they're loud as hell, sound like a freight train, according to others. In most cases, you can survive a tornado if you are prepared or alert. The vast majority of houses in the south don't have basements, so your only chance of survival is in a bathtub or closet...

⁠@@jrountree584​​⁠I live down south but unfortunately I’ve seen a few in my time. The scariest one was back in 2011. Came at 3 am when we were completely asleep. Got woken by the loud clap of thunder that came as the power was knocked out. Was able to make my way down the hallway towards my roommate’s room w my dogs. We just got back to their bedroom when all hell broke loose. And yes, it does sound like a train. It got so deafening that we couldn’t hear each other, even when screaming & sitting right next to each other. It was utterly terrifying. The whole house started shaking. I honestly thought I was going to die. I had serious PTSD anytime a storm came for years afterwards. Thankfully we were lucky, as it was a smaller tornado. I can’t imagine going through something like Joplin or Moore. The small one I went through was bad enough. About 10 mins after it was over, I got a text on my phone letting me know a tornado was in my area 😑🤦🏼‍♀️ I was like GEE thanks for the heads up. It really helped 🤦🏼‍♀️ This footage is the scariest video I’ve ever seen. The Joplin one is scary too inside that gas station. But scary in a diff way since you can’t see the tornado in it. Still terrifying though, esp w headphones on. Ur lucky to have never experienced one firsthand. I’ve been through more than I can count, though luckily they were all fairly small and didn’t do much damage/hit blocks from me. The one in 2011 by far was the scariest, due to proximity and the fact of having ZERO warning since it struck at night.

You said the truth!!

Yes, and this one was apparently travelling at half the speed of a typical tornado.

@@thedoctor2102 oh god

Lol dude he literally had so much fucking time to hide from this. What in the fuck was he thinking just standing in a window with this thing right beside him? Even if you dont have a basement literally anywhere is better than that.

I heard from reports the man was elderly and frail and unable to get to saftey

@@WereAlreadyHere Apparently from what I've heard he was disabled and too old to get to a safe place quickly, so he accepted his death and decided to record it. Luckily, he survived, but unfortunately his wife died, who was in a much safer place.

The guy filming this survived by pure luck, despite being upstairs. His wife however was in the basement of the same house but was crushed to death when the house collapsed. He's an elderly man in a wheelchair, so had no time to seek cover downstairs.

@@fredrikcarlen3212 Oh damn! So sorry to hear about his wife’s tragic loss, it’s a miracle he even survived; thank you for telling me this; my prayers and sympathy go out to him in this tragic event, yes it does

​@Pig Asus I've read that he needs assistance with walking and they just didn't have enough time so he told her to leave him. Since he knew he wasn't going anywhere that's why he recorded.

@@Orly90 That's a lie. He himself said that they just assumed it was going to head West and bypass them, and then he went up into the attic to get lanterns.

@@pafanboy She... stayed downstairs in the kitchen after they assumed it would bypass them. Not sure that's "doing what you're supposed to do".

I heard a story of a lady who did everything she was supposed to, getting into the basement in an interior room. The tornado was so powerful it not only leveled her house, but it dug down into the floor, ripped off the covering of her basement, and took her with it. Sometimes even when you 100% do what you are supposed to, nature is too powerful. An underground storm shelter is the best thing you can have if you can manage to build one.

@@dracofirexin the Jarrell, TX 1995 F5, the people that survived it hitting their community were the ones that left. The ones that sheltered in place in interior rooms and hid in bathtubs were dismembered. The only ones that stayed and survived were underground. Some tornados you HAVE to be underground, and like you said, sometimes that’s not even enough. Tornados are terrifying.

Miracles still happens

camera men never get hurt

The act of filming the tornado saved his life because as we all know camera men can't die

​@@EEE-1409i have 3 cameras >:) Sony CCD TRV16 8mm Cassette Camcorder Red digital camera Tablet camera

@@huhnx5 Keep those cameras with you at all times and you should live to be ancient LoL

He had no basement.Their was no place of refuge..no escape.

Although they take and destroy,there rotating mass is mesmorising to beholed, like a moth to light !

He held on to a bed sheet, dunno if that helped tho.

He probably saw God and his wife, as his wife was being killed

@@niagra898 - They had a cellar, but it was tiny, and I don't think they had time to get into it by this point. The tornado was probably hauling through there.

I recommend the tiv tornado intercept “inside the tornado”. These two are the greatest videos

Yeah that clip sent chills down my spine at how fast it’s approach, blackness, and the sound of open air

If you watch carefully at around the 1:43-1:45 mark, you can actually see the ghost train - aka the inflow jet - seconds before the tornado hits the house.

"I have become death - the destroyer of worlds".

Never test the wind demons

Exactly

Terrifying

I'm from the Midwest I still once or twice per month have a terrifying tornado dream.

That roar when it bellows to a larger funnel was spine-chilling!

​@ryans6280 I graduated high school in Rochelle, the nearest city to Fairdale. I had a lot of friends in the area when it hit. I'm sorry for the families of the 2 who perished and all that lost their homes. But man, it could have been SOOOOO much worse if it was a bit further Southeast, as it would have hit Rochelle directly. (Much more populated).

It's kind of incredible that he even managed to survive despite being upstairs when the house basically collapsed.. The same collapse that crushed his wife to death despite her being in the basement two floors down.

With a hurricane you have plenty of warning to get to higher ground. You have minutes with a tornado to get to a safe place in your house.

No storm chasing but a literal front seat of the tornados approach and destruction. No music or drama. Raw.

The only other video I know similar to this is when storm chasers parked one of their armored vehicles in the path of a tornado and let it hit them. There’s a video on RU-vid. The only thing you can see is about a foot in front of the headlights and just blackness all around with a similar sound in this video.

@@razrv3lc I am very curious to watch that video. Do you have a name for it?

The most

@@razrv3lc Link?

Clem rode it down, nly to find out his wife and her best friend perished in the basement (which is supposedly the safest place)

Probably because he was in the attic so less grubble fell on him I'm guessing

@@theGman402 If the house was one story then I dknt think his fall would be too bad, yet it's still cool how he managed to survive

The person who made this video died…

@@MrJonkidd74 I thought his wife died?

​@@MrJonkidd74 the guy survived but his wife died

1:45

The tornado is a lot louder than a train

@@Ethan_Odom he didn’t say it was louder nor was he comparing that.

Tornadoes sound ALOT LOUDER than a fucking train my guy

Chill out dickheads.

More like being at the end of a runway with large jets taking off.

The dog was far smarter than he was.

@Loveabun Don’t disrespect a dead man

@@percy6070 The man isn’t dead, he survived the tornado, the same unfortunately can’t be said for his wife.

@@ayylmao575 That's fortunate, still extremely disrespectful of this commenter though

Omgosh ok i listened to this 5 times believing that I heard a dog yelping.

Oh god that’s both terrifying and sad

sure is

You dont know what its like she was downstairs she most likely got crushed people dont just get sucked UP into tornadoes my house got destroyed by one last month

@@exo_1727getting sucked up by tornadoes are very common if they are at least an ef3. And that guy filming is stupid for being upstairs when he clearly saw the tornado about to hit his house. He could’ve filmed from the windows in the basement

@@TrainSpotterLiam2011 yeah but he’s an old man so i feel bad for him either way

Shut up

You can easily tell when a tornado is moving. Watch the ground in front of it and pick out objects. Don't look at the entire thing. If you see it eating power poles like a kid eats M&M's, get moving.

This was an EF4 (though a portion of the tornado-loving weather community argues it should have been an EF5). This guy is very lucky to have gotten the footage and lived to tell the tale.

But the wife ⚰️

How do yall know his wife passed and how do yall know he even had a wife

@@MsCarringtonsRU-vid other videos on this storm that happened many years ago and news reports about it. He went upstairs to grab some lanterns and started recording while his wife was downstairs. She didn't make it. A neighbor was also killed.

@@MsCarringtonsRU-vid he got interviewed genius.

It was too late anyway, he couldn't go down

Maybe his wife would've survived if his dumb ass wasnt more worried about getting the recording than manning the hatches and getting to where she was...

As far as I’ve seen, I think the guy was very old and possibly wheelchair bound. Either way, what a strange twist of fate.

at that point it might be preferable to die with your wife than to survive. he is too old to start over, now he must live out the rest of his life alone.

He didn't die though bro lol

often stupidity is mistaken as bravery.

He survived mate, but his missus who was on the bottom level died. Condolences to him and family

@@ferris-nk4rv he couldn’t do anything though, he was bound to a wheelchair and was 84. Besides, he was the only one in the house that survived

I feel like he selfishly wanted to die. But instead our creator did not allow that and took his wife instead

Yes he's an idiot for just standing there while his wife died alone

F5Storm1 what is shocking is that he didn’t die and he was very much exposed

AEROTRAP yeah he was 85 at the time so yeah not very much he could have done tbh

@@F5Storm1 you're an idiot for not knowing the full story because there was really nothing he could do

@@karidior5937 facts

He didn’t died tho

1:28 This would definitely be the time to make your way downstairs to the basement *NOW!* Like ASAFP!

​@@manifestingqueen8680his wife did tho right

@@blackheartbev3098 I know

@@rockwellrhodes7703 third floor my ass , you see A tornado coming your way Gtf out the house.

his wife died have some respect

@redactedinformation2357 He didn't say anything disrespectful

Some things render people utterly speechless.

So scared you're brain causes you to go into shock and cannot speak...I assume it's the body way of saving energy for necessary organs.

Him And his wife just got into a huge fight. He went up stairs and saw this and started filming. She was downstairs. He never even Told her to take shelter. She did not make it

@@RyanWehr thats false, stop fucking spreading misinformation, idiot.

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