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Scores Die As Twisters Rip Midwest

Scores Die As Twisters Rip Midwest
Clip: 354013_1_1
Year Shot: 1956 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1617
Original Film: 029-029-02
HD: N/A
Location: Hudsonville, Michigan
Timecode: 00:01:46 - 00:02:41

Killer winds strike in the wake of spring's coming. Twisters rip across the Midwest, killing over 43, injuring hundreds, flattening entire towns in a great scar of destruction across fourteen states. The worst tornado damage in 36 years takes a bitter, heavy toll of the nation. Establishing shot - Piles of lumber and twisted metal in a heap that once was someone's home. MCUS - Two cars that the wind picked up and smashed together. MS -A sofa that survived somehow when it was blown out of a house now sits among the torn up lumber. MS - A house that was torn apart is barely standing. MS - Man in his house. Household things are thrown and upset all over the home. MS - A badly damaged jeep and car. MS - People going through their destroyed houses trying to find anything that is useable. CUS - Two men are putting two salvaged mattresses on top of his truck. Camera panning the pile of destroyed wood that once were homes.