
Mark Skid
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Just 12 years after rescheduling their passage to America aboard the the RMS Titanic, my grandmother's cousin and husband could not escape fate. While driving east on Erie Blvd, an F4 tornado swept-in off of Lake Erie. Their vehicle was struck by a sign that was torn from the Broadway Building, killing both of them instantly. My dad (only 5 at the time) and grandma took refuse in the Lorain National Bank building which proved to be the safest place to be. They watched out the window as cars and people were being sucked into the air, never to come down. Vehicles (with people still in them) were thrown in every direction, some as far as 5 miles from where they sat. The stories of carnage still ring clear today. My dad said he could hear people screaming for someone to save them, bodies in trees... Why a movie has never been made about this event, I do not know? These clips are worth checking out...
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