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Memories of deadly Tri-Cities tornado still vivid, 25 years later
Memories of deadly Tri-Cities tornado still vivid, 25 years later
BY SEAN GORMAN Richmond Times-Dispatch Aug 5, 2018
Around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 6, 1993, Harry Jones was taking a nap at his antique store in Petersburg's Old Towne historic district unaware that his business was in the path of a tornado that was estimated to have winds topping out around 200 miles per hour.
Jones was sleeping in a bed on the third floor above his business, Antiques & Oddity, when the sound of the storm woke him. ... "It all happened within seconds. There's really actually no 'before' and no 'after.' It didn't seem like it," Jones said recently. "I heard a noise. I rose out of bed because it was so horrendous."
Then his building at 1 W. Old Street partially collapsed, sending debris crashing through a neighboring plumbing supply store. An upright beam kept the roof of his building from falling in on him, Jones said. ... The store owner was able to get out of the building without having suffered so much as a scratch.
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PHOTOS: Tri-Cities tornado, 25 years later
On the afternoon of Aug. 6, 1993, a powerful tornado struck the Tri-Cities area, destroying buildings in Old Towne Petersburg and tearing through a Walmart in Colonial Heights.
BY SEAN GORMAN Richmond Times-Dispatch Aug 5, 2018
Around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 6, 1993, Harry Jones was taking a nap at his antique store in Petersburg's Old Towne historic district unaware that his business was in the path of a tornado that was estimated to have winds topping out around 200 miles per hour.
Jones was sleeping in a bed on the third floor above his business, Antiques & Oddity, when the sound of the storm woke him. ... "It all happened within seconds. There's really actually no 'before' and no 'after.' It didn't seem like it," Jones said recently. "I heard a noise. I rose out of bed because it was so horrendous."
Then his building at 1 W. Old Street partially collapsed, sending debris crashing through a neighboring plumbing supply store. An upright beam kept the roof of his building from falling in on him, Jones said. ... The store owner was able to get out of the building without having suffered so much as a scratch.
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PHOTOS: Tri-Cities tornado, 25 years later
On the afternoon of Aug. 6, 1993, a powerful tornado struck the Tri-Cities area, destroying buildings in Old Towne Petersburg and tearing through a Walmart in Colonial Heights.
