Growing up in Florida. I've been through my share of tornadoes and hurricanes. I've witnessed a house right across the street get leveled and ours not touched. It's a scary experience.
Thanks for this awesome video I live 2 miles from Rye Cove and have a crazy coincidence my great grandmother was a student at Rye Cove at the time of the tornado but luckily she stayed home sick that day. My grandfather may never had been born and inturn I may never have been born had she went to school that day!!
Thanks guys ! This is my favorite subject... weather especially tornadoes. I'd not heard of this tragedy before. I appreciate your teaching history in an awesome way !! God Bless you both !!❤🙏
I was raised in Rye Cove. I was born in 68 in Kingsport Tenn because it was the closest Hospital. I have 3 siblings, and we all attended the old rebuilt Rye Cove School, it was elementary, middle and high school all in one building about the size of an average modern church..... it has long since been torn down, but we still have a monument with the old school bell atop.
A couple of comments, 2011 there was a tornado just north of Abingdon in Glade Springs. Also, I think the Rye Cove storm was the tornado that frightened my uncle OM Cross so badly that for the rest of his life he would go in his neighbor's basement in Mendota any time a thunderstorm happened near him
I recall sometime about 20-30 or so years ago a tornado had touched down near Dungannon in Scott County. No one was injured. A couple of days later myself and some friends made the trip to survey the damage. Mostly just trees busted up and twisted into splinters but there was this one farm house that had a tobacco barn approximately 50 yards from their house. The barn was completely obliterated and not so much as a single piece of tin ripped off the house. I would like to see you guys make a documentary of the flood of 1977 and the blizzard of 1993.
