A two-year-old boy was killed and his mother injured in Michigan Wednesday afternoon when a tornado hit the city of Livonia without warning. The two were at home sleeping when a tree fell on the residence. “This is a terrible tragedy for our community,” said Livonia Mayor Maureen Miller Brosnan.
The National Weather Service confirmed that the tornado, with winds of 95 miles per hour, touched down in Livonia and moved for 5.5 miles with a spread of 450 yards. The tornado took residents by surprise, as it formed too quickly and there was no time to sound the alarm sirens.
Meanwhile, Montgomery County, Maryland, woke up Thursday with the hangover of having suffered the worst tornadoes in many years, which left a trail of fallen trees, collapsed structures and several injuries.
Tornadoes were reported near the cities of Darnestown, Poolesville, Olney, Columbia and Baltimore, although the greatest damage occurred in Gaithesburg, where three structures collapsed and a tree fell on a house, leaving five people injured, according to the tornado service spokesperson. Montgomery County Rescue Pete Piringer.
Although it may take the Weather Service a day or two to assess the damage, Wednesday’s phenomenon has already been recognized as unusual and historic. The local press has reported that, although the initial number of 16 tornadoes reported by the same storm may be reduced, it is likely that the phenomenon is among the 10 largest in Maryland history.
Today, social networks collected numerous videos and photos of the storm, which, although it occurred at the time of the storm, showed images never seen before in this State.
“I had seen some tornadoes before, but never one like this. He looked very powerful,” states Amanda Naeemi, a county resident. Naeemi was in her car going to the gym in Gaithersburg and was alarmed when he received an alert on his phone from a group of friends warning him of the tornado’s approach. “I was scared and looked for a place to take shelter. “I went to the Shady Grove subway parking lot, where about 30 of us stayed,” he explains. Naeemi warned the newcomers of the threat that loomed over the area so that they did not leave and they were able to observe how the impressive funnel was formed approximately a mile away. From the roof of the parking lot, “probably not the smartest decision to have gone up,” she admits, he took photos like those that have proliferated on social media.
The United States has had a tough spring of tornadoes, with at least 24 dead on the long Memorial Day weekend alone, the AP agency reports. April was the second most tornado month ever recorded in the country, in part due to climate change, which generally contributes to stronger storms around the world.
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