Scary Stuff From Central And Southern Illinois Yesterday

Ferocious weather pounded the midwest on Sunday with tornadoes, intense thunderstorms and giant hail threatening 53 million people across 10 states and leaving tens of thousands without power. A county coroner said two people were killed when a tornado hit their home in rural southern Illinois. Washington County coroner Mark Styninger said the elderly man and his sister died on Sunday afternoon in their farmhouse in the town of New Minden, about 50 miles southeast of St Louis. Another person was reported killed in the town of Washington. Emergency officials also said that two more people were killed in Massac County, Illinois, on the Kentucky border where a twister devastated several neighborhoods. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency confirmed one other death, Associated Press reported. With communications difficult and many roads impassable, it remained unclear how many people had been killed or hurt by the unusually strong late-season tornadoes. According to the National Weather Service’s website, 65 tornadoes struck, most of them in Illinois.

I know we like to joke about basically everything in the world at Barstool but it would be short sighted and callous to not at least mention what happened in Washington Illinois yesterday. Scary stuff. One second it’s a regular Sunday and the next your entire town is ripped to shreds. I hate when people say “thoughts and prayers” just for social media attention so instead you should donate money to Tornado relief (and yes I donated this morning because asking others to donate without donating yourself is probably “worse than thoughts and prayers”)

I found two links this morning, one is the Heroes Memorial Foundation, the other is the Red Cross which is on scene. Our country is the best country in the world because we pick each other up when we’re down, so if you want to help, that’s how you can go about it.