02 December 2013

If you lose something in a tornado...


... you may need to expand your search area beyond your neighborhood. 

This map, showing "Final locations of debris lofted from the Washington, Illinois EF-4 tornado" was posted at The Land of Maps - sadly without a citation to the original source (which I could not find with a TinEye reverse image search).*

*addendum:  image credit may be to Tom Sander.

3 comments:

  1. Urban GarlicDecember 2, 2013 at 10:07 PM

    I've been following Land of Maps for a while, and entries often (always?) have corresponding discussions on reddit. This one's is here, and some distance in the reddit comment thread, there's a link to a Wunderground story.

    Apparently there's a facebook-mediated crowd-sourcing mechanism for data collection, but I wasn't able to track it down any better than that.

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  2. BubDecember 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM

    Apparently someone named Tom Sander on the Washington Illinois Recovery Facebook page (it's in images)

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=363531353783856&set=pb.361545887315736.-2207520000.1386086683.&type=3&theater


    http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/new-images-put-tornado-damage-broad-perspective

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    1. MinnesotastanDecember 3, 2013 at 4:46 PM

      Thanks, Bub. I've added his name as a credit. The facebook link has him listed as a "via," but the Peoria one seems to credit it to him.

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