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Episode 178: The 1990 Plainfield tornado
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:05:13
Publish Date: 2021-09-09 10:00:00
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We are so used to receiving all sorts of warning on our phones - Amber alerts, COVID exposures, weather watches. One weather app on our phone is all it takes to be warned of flood conditions or upcoming storms. But in 1990, people in northeastern Illinois received absolutely no warning that a powerful late-summer tornado was about to tear their lives apart.
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