RARE Northern Michigan EF-3 TORNADO Hits the Town of Gaylord. 5K.

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@TLK9419]

This is by far the most detailed information I've been able to find about the tornado. Thank you so much for putting so much effort into this and publishing it. My grandparents live up there and it's a common vacation spot for my family, so naturally it's tough to see it like this. They're ok but I am still very interested in seeing how everything is and this video is definitely the best source to see that. Thanks!

[@ChrisHarden]

Thank you, glad that this video was informative to you on what happened!

[@sincerelyzee521]

fudgie

[@MrLuke-ll4sz]

Thank you for the footage! This was a very rare occurrence to happen in northern Michigan. Crazy to see a town I’ve driven in be destroyed

[@lorainestjames4181]

good video and excellent information shared here, covered all the details to where Gaylord is the route the tornado took and exposing all the damage... Filming the storm and viewing the aftermath are both equally overwhelming. Thank you Chris , amazing.

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks for watching, Loraine!

[@shelbyz1974]

Great job to all first responders and the community as a whole for coming together! The video was well done and even had weather facts and figures. Good job Chris!

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks, Shelby!

[@megacap55]

Nice work documenting things and states, also my prayers to the Gaylord,MI residents in this hard time

[@cgimovieman]

Pretty wild. I was in Gaylord lots of times growing up, and even a handful of times after moving from Michigan as an adult. It was always a good stop off driving north, and where we got off to head west to go ski over near Traverse City and Petoskey. I also shot a show there over 2 weeks in 2003. So it’s a place I know pretty well. I’ll be back up visiting Michigan in early to mid-June. I almost feel like driving up there just to give the town some business.

[@griffinswrath]

It's so pretty up there (coming from a farm in way lower Michigan), I LOVED going "up north". Gaylord was always a pass-through town, but I always enjoyed stopping there for ice-cream. I'd have never thought a tornado would hit that far north! :O

[@coreycoyle9548]

Great Video!!!!! Chris, F+L, Corey, I see that the Culver's just miss tornado path.

[@Paramount531]

Thank you for the video! Gaylord looks like a nice place with good people, hopefully they will get everything rebuilt quickly!

[@fburejsza]

Gaylord trivia: Gaylord is 1/2 way between the equator and North Pole. The 45th parallel is just south of town.

[@exmichigansnowskier2150]

I know that too! I seen that sign north of Mancelona on U.S. 131 Highway traveling from Wyoming, Michigan(southwestern Grand Rapids area) going up north to where my parents lived in Indian River back in the 1980's into the mid 2000's years.

[@anthoniusalphaproject1588]

Great documentation of this tragic event, God bless you and God bless our beloved Michigan.

[@45AMT]

Nice job on the video. I'm sure this video will be useful for people who are concerned about there loved ones in the area.

[@joycetrembath499]

My daughter and I were there that day for my Dad's memorial service. We left town at 121p for home. We were up and down 32 several times and passed thru the neighborhoods in town that were hit. Freaky.

[@johncriske6368]

The news media should have hired you----excellent video--born in GAYLORD and lived their for 15 years===your video brought back a lot of memories of the palaces that I knew--left in 1955 for warmer weather--talked to a few friends their and they were lucky---the tornado missed them--

[@jonathanmanning5358]

I hope everyone is safe and well. I couldn't imagine how bad this must be I wish the residents of this state a fast recovery and hope for the future to rebuild what they lost sending love from the UK 🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@TheChadonYouTube]

I live in Gaylord and am employed at that Culver's. Thank God everyone made it out ok. As soon as I could, I began walking to my work to see if everyone was ok. Some guy on the way told me that two people died in Culver's and I started to panic, thinking that some of my dear friends may have passed. God, I don't know what I would do if that info was true.

[@exmichigansnowskier2150]

For those who don't know, Gaylord was previously called Barnes. The village changed their name by the village town council to Gaylord to honor Augustine Smith Gaylord in 1881 who was a attorney helping people in the area at that time. He was a descendant of relatives who came to what we know as eastern U.S. He was an attorney for the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad. He died in 1881. I was in the USAF and my last base I was at was Sheppard AFB; Wichita Falls, Texas. I'm a Vietnam War Era now disabled veteran. Less than a month before honorable discharged this city had what was determined to have a "High End" F-4 tornado on April 10, 1979. We just lost electricity. The tornado dissipated about 6 miles to the south where we lived. To this day I remember the story of what happened to this woman. She is woman "B". My wife knew this early 60's age couple "A" more than myself. I worked on the base doing shipping work 8 a.m to 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. So this couple knew this woman "B". She was either married and husband working somewhere, or divorced, or widowed. Anyway she got her two young kids in the bathtub and a mattress on top of them. When the tornado was blowing away the roof of her house she got on top of the mattress as a paperweight. Just like a mother Grizzly Bear to protect her cubs, she was protecting her kids. The tornado sucked her up in the air and she was flying through the air for ten miles to the area where the tornado dissipated itself. She could have died any length of time in the air. By debris or like a sliver of wood the thickness of a pencil to go through your body like a bullet. I think the windspeed was over 250 MPH. They found this dead woman's body in a tree. If those kids are alive today, they would be in their late 40's age wise. KZbin videos to look at. 1. Terrible Tuesday, 1979 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak by AIRBOYD, length 23:06 minutes I forgot now which video of this one or next one of a woman saying she had a leg amputated. She was wearing pants in interview. Another woman describing she thought this was the end of her life. She had two broken limbs and two bad cuts I think. Another describing she survived by being in a bank vault. Most of the bank got blown away. At 14:52 a pink desk telephone. 2. Terrible Tuesday by Lauren Roberts, length 18:39 3. The Top Ten Worst Tornadoes in the U.S., by the Weather Channel #4, was Joplin, Missouri an F-5 tornado. This was the most expensive cost wise in U.S. History. 2.8 BILLION DOLLARS!!! After this happened in the middle of the path, 360 degrees around everything is destroyed as far as the eye can see. 161 people died that day, the worst since 1937.

[@paulklockowski3495]

I was in this tornado. I had just turned north onto I-75 headed towards Vanderbilt when my phone alarm went off to let me know a tornado was within a mile of my location. My parents were there also staying at the Best Western Inn in Gaylord. The trailer park was destroyed and thank God nobody was seriously hurt.

[@snazzysportstacker]

former Gaylordite here. I lived here when the tornado hit. The upside down blue truck at the 3:00 mark was actually being test driven that day from the dealer. There was someone unfortunate enough to be stuck in traffic on M-32 with their family inside. They got swung around pretty bad, but the father driving was able to protect their kid from any severe injuries. I knew a kid living in the trailer park at the time. Poor guy had almost nothing left after everything was said and done. People would come up from downstate and ask us at work where they could go to gawk at the damage. Some were very insensitive about the fact that most of us were picking up our entire lives at the time. Even though I was lucky enough to be outside its path, I was still pretty fucked up about it. Thanks for sharing what happened.

[@Tipp_Of_The_Mitt]

Petoskey is also comparable in size and some of the injured were sent to the Petoskey hospital. The injured count has went to 48.

[@tannerplayz2422]

The tornado was a few hundred feet south of my house before it hit the trailer park

[@RootPCSales]

I lived in Gaylord for only 8 months while doing a store remodel of Walmart in Petoskey. I'm originally from that state (lived near Kalamazoo for a while, and lived in the Cadillac-Houghton Lake area). It really does hit a little different when you know the places that have been hit. Hope everyone recovers quickly. I know it'll be a while, if ever, to get completely back to normal. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of mobile home pads in the mobile home park remain empty. I plan on trying to stop out during the first week of July, curious to see how much is "fixed" by then. If/when you visit North Dakota (I wouldn't be surprised if Fargo is in your list of places to visit) take a trip out to Gwinner. It's the birthplace of the Skid-Loader, and has the manufacturing plant for the Doosan Bobcat Skid and Track loaders, as well as the toolcats. It's also Bobcats main steel fabrication plant, where sheet-steel and other various metal parts get made to be shipped to the other plants. If you look at a map, you'll see that Gwinner in terms of housing and town size is extremely small. A majority of workers travel an hour and 20 minutes to and from Fargo every day to get to work, while a number of others live in the other very small towns surrounding Gwinner. If Bobcat didn't exist, it's safe to say that this area of the state, in terms of towns and people, likely wouldn't exist today.

[@ChrisHarden]

Oddly enough, I'm really looking forward to the days that I start venturing through the great plains. There are so many interesting places out there that never get talked about. Especially if you like ghost towns.

[@rebeccacurtiss7737]

We live about 20 minutes from Gaylord. Gaylord is our town we go to for everything. My last trip to town for my usual errands was definitely impacted. We just make due or have a hour drive in another direction. Aldi's has been greatly missed.

[@jessechaskey7205]

Thank you for this great video. I drove thru town but stayed away from the hard hit places. That little tune you played sounded like it came from The legend if Zelda!🤣

[@alex6326]

Crazy to think I was only 4 hours away from that tornado I live in the Grand Rapids area.

[@matto5547]

Worth keeping in mind, although there is very little tornado activity in that region, the Gaylord area is a plateau, mostly flat compared to the rolling hills of the surrounding areas. It’s not any surprise from a geographical standpoint that the city is the area that has had both of the major tornadoes in the past 50years.

[@marysievers1598]

I live in Gaylord. LUCKILY I was out of state when it happened. Unbelievable. Is the best I can put it.

[@garystamour9817]

nice job reporting, thankyou

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

It's crazy how one building can be completely destroyed and the building next to it can look like nothing even happened

[@SilentEcho9194]

My parents used to live in Gaylord. This is shocking to see. When they lived there they had a derecho go through. That was late 90's.

[@MJforever245]

Would love to see a updated video on Gaylord now. I am hoping they recovered.

[@justme4016]

Good video We live in Gaylord and Unfortunately you didn't catch the video of the REALLY Bad areas hit the homes you got a lot of it but there are sooooo many much worse Our town is great and will be months before things get back to normal with the destroyed places 3 years ago a Bad storm went almost on the same path but stayed south of the main strip(m32) they said it wasn't a tornado but our neigborhood was REALLY messed up a LOT of damage and our pool was flying in a circle and MANY MANY huge 50-+ft trees down and a lot of damage just behing the woods from the trailer park that was hit this time. Again Good video but there was SO MUCH more damage ..like when you drove by BC pizza right before Hobby Lobby Behind the car was was a Lot they stored RV in and ALL of them were ripped apart but you were taping the other side of the street. Talk is that they are going to tear down the Hobby Lobby mall & build new... We'll see though.

[@Hurricane0721]

This was definitely an unusual event for Northern Michigan, but not completely unprecedented. According to tornado data, as the video said there have been a few strong tornadoes in Northern Michigan within the past century. Fortunately most tornadoes in Northern Michigan hit rural areas and impact few if any people, because most of the land up there is rural in nature. So this tornado really came down to bad luck in that it hit a highly populated area.

[@alanw2687]

Destroyed by a tornado yet still very beautiful of an area. Michigan people are known for their hard word work and looking out for each other. This town will be back to normal in no time.

[@Philc231]

I watched the storm go by at Traverse City . I work on the upper floor of our hospital in TC . Very scary storm .

[@teddys_goddess_becky3041]

Praying 🙏🏻 my. Mother in law is 2&1/2 hrs from it. In wood haven Michigan

[@misterj3133]

Woodhaven is a lot farther than 2.5 hours away from Gaylord.

[@sigsin1]

Thanks for pronouncing “Gaylord” correctly.

[@ronaldculp9774]

Loved ur Gaylord video thank you

[@griffinswrath]

I grew up in Southern Michigan, there'd be the occasional tornado watch/warning, and in 18 years there, I only heard of 1 in my area. I would have NEVER thought one would ever hit Gaylord, for the location reasons mentioned in this video. This is just crazy for a former Michigander to see! d:-O

[@leighz1962]

If you drive up US-23(N/S.. on the east coast) and cross the 45th.. you can hold your arm out the window and feel a temperature change. That is a couple miles south of Alpena (4:50).

[@bettygitzke4131]

Wow, praying for this town. 🙏🙏🙏

[@tannerplayz2422]

Thank you I live there

[@tannerplayz2422]

The nado was a few hundred feet sout of my house

[@LesterMoore]

Why do tornadoes always seem to seek out mobile home parks? It's uncanny.

[@ChrisHarden]

Seems like it sometimes. I think you just hear about it more because mobile homes aren't very structurally sound.

[@fburejsza]

I think that it is more about how vulnerable mobile homes are. Strong winds and even nearby tornados will make a mess of a mobile home but pass by standard housing with little or no damage.

[@marysievers1598]

And 22 is years ago we had " Wind Surges" that jumped ALL OVER Gaylord

[@noname-by3qz]

I sure wish people would build houses in such a way they would be able to withstand the high winds. Year after year it's popsicle sticks in disarray. Use bricks or cinder blocks and leave a space under for the wind to pass under. The roof I don't know. Maybe also bricks.

[@marysievers1598]

Oh yeah THE Pigeon River forest busted out a huge fire the weekend BEFORE

[@albertmyers7176]

great vid

[@imjusthereforthecomments4920]

I would think the less injured could have been taken to Grayling or West Branch. Not level one hospitals but closer than Munson in TC or Alpena.

[@rebecca1431]

Chris, can u do some videos from Australia?

[@ChrisHarden]

Australia is on my bucket list... I hope to do so one day!

[@kennetholiver5350]

I'm in Kentucky and I've heard about the tornado that struck the town in Michigan I just want to pray for Jesus Christ to help the people that went through that mess and the help the town up there ..I'm 36 years old and I pray everyday and go to church every Sunday and I love and serve the lord and I want the lord to help Michigan and to keep everyone safe in the town of Gaylord Michigan in Jesus name ..I'm in Kentucky and god bless the north .

[@Archangel96]

wow there is a lot of coverage 4 my town

[@albertmyers7176]

👍👍

[@The1stClassVillain]

Climatologist have said tornadoes are going to start forming in places where they usually don’t. In places that are more populated by people.

[@Butthole4exitonlyUtube]

Why did he buy plywood at home Depot when it all over the road and people lawns!

[@mysticrizz_7593]

do waterloo iowa

[@ryannoa1153]

Many more than a dozen homes were damaged more like dozens

[@OleGeezerCirca1941]

😃👍

[@Leo-vf3py]

god bless all

[@69judge27]

DIRECT HIT RIGHT THRU THE MIDDLE OF TOWN FORREST FIRE GOD IS TRYING TO WAKE Y'ALL UP. ARE Y'ALL PAYING ATTENTION? Matthew 11:15 KJV He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Psalms 148:8 KJV "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word."

[@trafyknits9222]

True Christians know that our perfect, heavenly Father (praise His holy name) sent this tornado because the people of Gaylord have angered His Almighty Heart. The people of Gaylord better fall to their knees and repent for whatever they've done to enrage God. This isn't an accident or random event, this is God's perfect wrath in action. Wake up, Gaylord, this is just a warning. Next time it will be REALLY bad.

[@gabberz2019]

Really?