This is a super-quickly-put-together map of where I've been able to gather the tornado touched. I wish I could make the pins smaller but I'm using a crappy app on my phone to do it. Keep in mind, the bottom of the pins is the most precise locations. Sources are the posts I've seen so far, and Google maps traffic data (lots of red / stopped traffic where trees are blocking road). Praying all are okay.
Earthquake? When was this?
‘On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 12:23pm, a 4.2 magnitude earthquake centered nine miles south of Galesburg in Kalamazoo County happened. It was the second strongest earthquake to happen in Michigan since records have been kept. Despite being strong by Michigan standards, it did not cause any serious damage or injuries.’
Me and our old cat butters were started by it for sure.
There was a 3.8 aftershock too, my sister and I felt it as well
I remember this, I thought the neighbors kids were running around downstairs from me lol
Oh gotcha. That is shockingly big from a Michigan standpoint. I used to live in SoCal so that would be nothing lol
So was a multi-eye tornado. I mean jesus.
I was thinking this was gonna happen at some point, with the sudden heat earlier in February and heavier rains :/ We don't typically have like 5 tornadoes in one spot, maybe in ALL of the state but not in one spot.
I remember that, I was actually having lunch outside at Centre St. Taphouse when it happened -right in the storm’s path from last night!
butters is a fantastic name! aw hamburgers!
Couple years back. Like 2016-2017 maybe before.
Lol “survived” I was virtually right at the epicenter of that and it knocked some doors open. I think it cracked the masonry on someone’s building. I remember everyone was talking about it and my Filipino friend was laughing at us.
I live in Oshtemo. My friend was working in portage at the time. He asked me if I felt that. I was like “what?” Then he told me it was a rare earthquake. Was shocking to be honest.
Oh god yeah, aren't they right on top of a plate ridge?? Phillipines just gets fucked no lube 🥲 Had some family friends from there.
How big was it?
3.0 -4.5. But it was in Galesburg and could be felt in the surrounding cities. It was May 2nd 2015
Don't forget the floods of 2017 and 18.
Screw that flood. I lost a beloved car to the flood of October 2017
I’m still here
Me
I remember the day I was in the earthquake. I was eating at the Hunan off of M43 east with my family when the entire restaurant shook. I have survived a couple of earthquakes in California as well including the M7.1 earthquake in SoCal (epicenter was Victorville CA)
Let me know if there are areas to change or add and I can add them to a future iteration of this map. Or could just wait til the professionals make a better one.
I was trying to reach family last night and cut across from Oakland on Schuring because I knew Oakland at center would be a mess but the end of schuring on Westnedge was impassable, so I backtracked through primrose and that whole neighborhood got trashed too.
https://i.imgur.com/mHonf4U.png
It went straight through them.
Texas Township - the east side of the Colony Woods neighborhood was hit very hard, hundreds and hundreds of trees down.
That was wild, my house was directly in its path. I have 6 trees down in my yard and one on my house. But, Thanks for the map
anyone know why the news reports are calling them “suspected” tornados?
The National Weather Service needs time to officially classify the tornado and give it an "EF" rating for its wind speed. It's important for trending and data analysis to only classify storms as a "tornado" if they meet certain criteria which professionals need time to confirm. Otherwise we could end up with lesser storms being called a tornado just because a tree fell down, and the data would be inaccurate.
I wish I could make the pins smaller but I'm using a crappy app on my phone to do it.
Hah. You and your "crappy app" have done an amazing job at visually conveying its path. Thank you.
God, that was really only 4 miles aouth of us in our shitty apartments....... Glad I brought my frog downstairs too :( If it was any closer, she'd have been dead....
Hope everyone is safe and praying for good insurance claims <3
I was in my office on Moorsbridge as it hit. Every single tree came down. The west wall of the building next to me is gone. I tree flew through the west wall of my offices. A hot tub cover was in my parking lot. I was in Oklahoma the week before when those tornados hit.
Who else survived the earthquake and the tornado?