On Saturday (December 9) night, a strong monster tornado and thunderstorm swept through the US state of Tennessee, killing at least 6 people, injuring 62 people, destroying multiple buildings and blacking out power.
Christmas is just around the corner, but many families are unable to reunite.
The basic buildings of mankind for many years have been vulnerable in the face of tornadoes, and telephone poles and houses have been uplifted.
A resident posted a photo of himself surviving the tornado on social media, only to see a huge tornado the size of a monster in front of him, accompanied by the sound of crackling and building damage, flying quickly in front of his eyes.
At such a speed, a car can't run, let alone a human being who is powerless.
When the tornado engulfed the power poles, a large explosion suddenly occurred, causing catastrophic damage to the infrastructure of the entire region:
I saw that a ball of light suddenly appeared in the middle of the tornado, and the next second the ball of light exploded into a cloud of fire and black smoke, like an apocalyptic scene, and the person who shot the video couldn't help but murmur: OH MY GOD.
After the tornado, someone returned to their home and saw something like this:
There was a man whose house was caught in the tornado, but the tornado hit his friend's house so hard that the whole house rose into the air and fell, killing his friend's family.
Where the tornado walked, not a single house was intact.
The tornado blew a mobile home onto the roof of a family, killing three people, including a 2-year-old baby.
The family's life and all their property were destroyed in one fell swoop.
The peaceful life of yesterday suddenly went to zero today, and only the unpaid mortgage continues.
There are also people who actively rescue their houses, although a wall has been blown away, but they can definitely live if they are repaired:
Even the fire station was blown to the shelf:
Most of the photos above are in Clarksville, Tennessee, the epicenter of the disaster.
The moment the tornado made landfall, 85,000 households were without power, and the roads were full of power lines.
A state of emergency has been entered in the city of Clarksville, and everyone has been asked to take shelter on alert.
However, the course of a tornado is something that humans can change.
Like a giant beast, it was razed to the ground everywhere it went.
Shanika Washington, an eyewitness, said she took her 5- and 10-year-old to a windowless bathroom in the basement to hide when she heard the tornado sirens go off in Clarksville.
"The lights kept flickering, and I knew it was somewhere nearby," she said. "I have been praying to God all the time it has happened. It's very scary and scary. ”
For 20 minutes, she hid in the bathroom with her two children in her arms, her back against the outside wall, hoping that she could be the last shield to protect the children.
"The back door was blown away, and I heard a gust of wind," she said. "Things like the blinds are shaking a lot. I know we're in the middle of a storm.
She listened to the wind getting farther and farther away, she came out with the child, she looked out the window and saw the destruction: the debris swept to the windows, all the glass on the car was shattered, and the blinds were blown away.
The roof of the townhouse next door was torn off, the air conditioning unit and backyard grill were thrown to the ground like toys, and the wooden partitions between the townhouses were missing.
The central part of the United States, which is almost one of the most prone to tornadoes in the world.
In the 2021 season, six major states in the central United States, Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, were hit by at least 30 tornadoes, causing more than 200,000 homes without power and more than 55 million Americans facing serious threats.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said a "devastating storm" could cause at least 50 deaths in the state, with the death toll likely rising to nearly 100.
Tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are irresistible to human beings, and what we can do is to pack emergency supplies and evacuate as soon as possible.
Christmas is just around the corner, and I hope that those injured in the disaster will recover soon, and that everyone will have a good holiday.