VIDEO: Chopper 7 flies over cleanup from Gaylord tornado on Sunday

[@debbiewatts8665]

sending love from AUSTRALIA xx

[@dawnwolf6188]

So devastaing! Praying for the people of Gaylord.

[@Im-just-Stardust]

So sad to witness such destruction. Something that someone from Québec cannot comprehend. The ONLY positive thing I saw in this video was seeing everybody getting together. One big family.

[@billweihl2859]

This is a horrible feeling losing everything you worked your ass off for and it's gone in seconds. You guys will have a lot of prayers 🙏 and good vibes headed your way. Stay strong.

[@hkguitar1984]

@Rinky Dink Ditto...................

[@usaisnojoke]

Whether it's a tornado or the US government, BOTH will take anything and everything you worked your ass off for in a matter of seconds. It's the "American Way".

[@RogerDiotte]

Oh man, sorry everyone down there! Wow. Myself I'm up in Sault Ontario and was working in the rail yard here and man o man at the time this was happening down there we up here had some very black angry angry skies! I said to my co-worker that this is the blackest skies I've ever saw in my 50 years of living in the Sault!

[@echospaw899]

These storms just keep a coming. It's crazy how tornadoes will hit here, then there, then over there, missing others in between. Just never know when you're next. Good thoughts for those affected, especially those physically harmed and/or losing their properties.

[@murtl5595]

In the grand scheme of things we are all just like ants.

[@theresamultistan4549]

I lived in this neighborhood for 17 years. My heart breaks for my old neighbors. 💔

[@kimstyles5842]

😢

[@noname-by3qz]

It's the same thing year after year. People keep making houses out of popsicle sticks, and tornadoes keep blowing them apart.

[@jljackman7170]

I am so very sorry for your losses

[@janhoyle1462]

I grew up in Southfield, not far from the station between 8 & 9 mile roads. The weather there is boring (happy about that). It seems the only places to get tornadoes are Ann Arbor & Port Huron. So I had to watch these videos. Los Angeles is a dead weather zone except for Santa Ana winds & fires. Luckily Orange County doesn’t see many fires. Thanks for posting Weather guys, it gave me a chance to see my home town area again. I really feel for those people who lost their homes.

[@j_u_n_e_bug8746]

Id take our dead weather and Santa Ana’s any day of the week. But with that said, my heart goes out to all who’ve been affected by these devastating tornadoes over the past couple of weeks.

[@janhoyle1462]

I never said I want a tornado or bad weather. I love it here! But there are times I wish we had lightening.

[@Trance88]

The path of this tornado doesn't make any sense! It's almost as if it was hopping, skipping, and zig-zagging all over. It appears to be extremely narrow too.

[@chrisl7839]

The path of destruction was typical of a tornado of that size. Not narrow, but 200 yards wide per the National Weather Service.

[@williamdowden4494]

I don’t know if it has been confirmed but there were reports of 3 tornados.

[@janhoyle1462]

It obviously had satellite vortices. You will see little mini tornadoes spinning around the main one. That’s how some of the houses skip the damage & others don’t.

[@sheliarossell3162]

True wisdom none of this weather makes sense not normal. Mega tornado Morton Texas 2 miles wide stayed on ground forever more formed you can see on line storm chasers unbelievable. It headed toward Lubbock Texas yet missed that area. Fronts come in from west coast or South to start days in advance not just pop up hear or there it's like something driving storms to form they use to seed clouds. Now with modern technology wonder what they can do with weather.

[@sheliarossell3162]

@@janhoyle1462 that one in Simnole Oklahoma several weeks ago had one large one 6 tornadoes inside large tornado.

[@VIN_DECENT]

A tornado of this magnitude, happening at this latitude, is substantial let alone concerning. This (in my mind) increases the overall northern boundary of outbreak. I used to think we were relatively safe up here, but I'm beginning to think otherwise.

[@thisistheway7529]

it is slowly coming to Europe, such wether

[@arlenekrese6912]

Hit pretty hard God bless!

[@martha-anastasia]

Damn... Terrible damage. Good to see so many people cleaning up. Bless you all... Tornado swept about 30 miles north of me...we barely had any wind.

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

Yikes house was moved off its foundation

[@chrisl7839]

Terrible destruction. All the best wishes to those impacted. I hope cleanup and reconstruction will go as smoothly as possible and those injured will recover quickly. Condolences to the families and friends of those lost.

[@maximusmeridius3253]

the owner lose this battle over the high rate fees from the contractor in building their dream house

[@danburch9989]

1:23 The contractor and building inspector who issued the CO (Certificate of Occupancy) should lose their licenses and be fire. Somebody paid somebody to pass that house.

[@wohnai]

Aren't houses supposed to be affixed to the foundation?

[@byugrad1024]

Thought the same thing. Not a single anchor bolt or hurricane strap that I could see. There was absolutely nothing holding that house down. The blocks were also not even filled, and no rebar present. I agree with your assessment Dan.

[@danburch9989]

That house had the same foundation as a mobile home. None.

[@nerdjock3945]

It’s Michigan, they build houses to sustain winter, not tornadoes. You don’t think people take the cheaper router when they don’t get see as much extreme weather as other states? People will do anything to line their pockets with more money.

[@matty1053]

@@nerdjock3945 Doesn't matter they get wind up there.

[@JoeB2825]

The very next day of gray lord tornado, greater Toronto area was hit by a storm and lots of houses affected though not as severe as gray lord

[@valkyrie1066]

That is horrible. So happy more weren't killed. So much financial loss.

[@scottprather5645]

that one house off its foundation I noticed no grout fill or steel reinforcement in the block Foundation or anchor bolts to hold the house down that's shockingly poor construction. some remedies are surprisingly simple like using hurricane Clips to hold the roof Rafters to the walls that can save your roof they got a toughen up the building codes cuz some of those houses could have survived

[@fesswah]

Have they decided what catagory tornado this was yet ? F0-5 ?? Guessing a strong F3 here, but I wasn't there.

[@garfieldwillis4254]

Prayers to all the folks living in Gaylord can anyone tell me if Treetops was damaged given a shout-out from Jamaica

[@bruisedbanana2201]

No damage, fizzled out close to their property line.

[@ronbrock6153]

How was that house pushed off its foundation intact? Was there no inspections during building it?

[@litestreamer]

Where is this? Why don't the posters put the full info in the description??

[@mcampbell4556]

The tornado happened last Friday in Gaylord, Michigan. Located in northern lower Michigan where tornadoes are extremely rare! This was an EF3 tornado with 150 mph winds.

[@lindaclarkq8326]

Huge home still intact but lifted and twisted on its foundation....one home just needs new tiles on its roof but it's next door neighbors home is nothing but a pile of ruined lumber. Beautiful homes gone in a heartbeat. So sorry for those that lost so much.

[@smorgan5638]

I would have thought in a tornado area , Newer homes would have proper anchor bolts and hold downs (1:25) You can clearly see open blocks where the sill plates should be bolted to prevent the home from rotating off its poor unfilled foundation

[@genxrants]

It depends on the local code. Since it's rare that any form of wind storm would hit that area, the laws are a little more laxed for wind, but much more restrictive for massive amounts of snow.

[@Electronic424]

Looks like EF3 damage in some places

[@aprilvojtek8007]

Praying for humanity

[@michaelwerbick]

I'm going to sound mean in this remark.... I feel for those with the smaller homes and small businesses destroyed... who actually might not have insurance because stuff is paid off. However, those larger homes all (most likely) have mortgages on them and have insurance. It will cost millions of dollars to insurance companies to fix which just gets passed back to the consumer. Those living in those large homes will have the funds to continue to pay increased rates, but those smaller ones... well they might just get priced out.

[@ladyvirgo013]

This community is lucky it didn't have more casualties, Good God🙏 Devastating

[@windwhipped5]

House next door wiped out the other spared..😣

[@ginnychichester2171]

maybe they can screw this house back down.... It is sad that this nice house was destroyed and I hope everyone in it was ok! I am not seeing a very serious attachment to it's foundation. Not any concrete cores on the blocks, no anchor bolts. I am sorry for their loss in Gaylord.

[@garyvandecar2580]

Wow so sad, it's extremely rare to have violent Tornado's in Northern Michigan.

[@lonewolf9390]

There was a pretty bad one in Comins Michigan back in 1999 that was rated as an EF2.

[@perrymichales4242]

Gaylord strong 💪 ❤️ 👏

[@miltonmoore8369]

WHEN MY EYES FIRST SAW THE IMAGE I THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER VIDEO OF WHAT WAS LEFT OF A HOME IN UKRAINE THAT RUSSIAN SOLDIERS HAD BEEN USING AS AN OUTPOST AFTER IT WAS SHELLED.

[@stayonpace]

When the camera focused on the American flag, I said I hope some of these folks weren't the ones to destroy our capitol on January 6th.

[@jacob45415]

We sure this isn’t higher than an ef3 ?

[@kevingunnery5470]

The NWS investigated and determined it was a EF-3 with max winds of 140 mph…

[@jacob45415]

@@kevingunnery5470 150 but yes still Ef3 I would have said 165 or 170 low end ef4

[@marshallsweatherhiking1820]

@@jacob45415 Seems most modern homes are not constructed to withstand winds over 100 mph. :( If you're not in a hurricane zone they just assume it's unlikely to happen, but an EF3 tornado will do it.

[@sethcourtemanche5738]

Newer homes are much more susceptible to tornadoes than older renovated homes

[@kevingunnery5470]

@@jacob45415 either way I’m just glad that no one else was hurt in this and from the sounds of it the community is bonding together to help each other in numerous ways..

[@Shemuah]

Ahayah the God of Israel is telling us to repent or perish...

[@pollybastos3281]

Everyone survived?

[@toddbrimer5672]

No not every one 2 have passed I've heard

[@radioactiveatom6271]

2 elderly folk died that lived in a trailer park

[@USlisa50]

Sad

[@TheOriginalAndysGarage]

Now that gaylord is on the map the rainbow flag Flyers are going to want to change the name of that place

[@lenaely6146]

This shows how cheaply built some of the new construction is. Just a strong gust of wind will tear it down

[@jerryfrederick6610]

It was an F3 tornado, but that one house was almost intact but shoved off it's foundation like it was nothing. Not exactly tied down well at all.

[@ksrams21]

It was an EF 3 Tornado with 140 mph wind! Really!

[@sethcourtemanche5738]

That's why you pay full price for quality materials

[@matty1053]

@@ksrams21 the one house wasn't even tied down to the foundation lol. Should have collapsed, not shifted from it's foundation

[@erikzornes4183]

I think the houses were built by Bluth Construction

[@BellaDrips]

Did they even see this coming? Were there any weathermen warning their citizens?

[@mcampbell4556]

I live here, the local news was warning of a # 2 threat of severe weather in this area and literally all of northern Mi 2 days prior to this tornado. The morning of, they reported that the severe weather would be in the afternoon. I did my errands that morning and was home when the storm hit. We are 8 miles from the town where it hit. This local station began breaking into normal programming 45 mins before the tornado warning of impending danger’s weather, showing radar so people could prepare. All who have cell phones in the area were given an emergency warning ⚠️ with instructions to go to the lowest level of our homes. Those driving in Gaylord would have had the same warning. I believe all these measures saved lives!

[@Jjjhbyhjbgv]

It's LGBBQ tornadoes now ? I gotta get outta this country

[@garfieldwillis4254]

Stop being stupid

[@garfieldwillis4254]

Look up the meaning of the name

[@Jjjhbyhjbgv]

Your name showed up

[@davidellis5141]

No Golfing in Gaylord for awhile.

[@williamdowden4494]

Treetop is open and I’m sure many of the others are as well

[@rohanwallace9255]

What person would be in their right mind, to name a place Gaylord look at it now it's almost like sadom in ruined!!

[@thisistheway7529]

This is like Ukraine

[@er.ernawati.radar.orari.50]

Tuhab

[@tommy4755]

Geez

[@bonnieuptree5691]

DEW ! Directed Energy Weapon. Obvious. 🤨

[@lonewolf9390]

The tinfoil hat is cutting off the oxygen to your brain.

[@Tewthpaste]

*HA, GAY!.*

[@lonewolf9390]

Idiot. ☝☝☝☝

[@TedBackus]

gaylord tornado. lol

[@lonewolf9390]

Idiot. ☝☝☝☝☝☝

[@perrymichales4242]

Look up the meaning of the name Gaylord going back as far as 1800s

[@juanitodurden9347]

Oh no that's terrible ... I recently lost 2 of my 12 golden yachts so I understand your pain . Condolences

[@williamdowden4494]

People’s lives were destroyed