A tornado that whipped a small northern michigan community left a balance two dead and more than 40 wounded this Friday afternoon.
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The tornado touched down around 3:40 p.m. In the town of Gaylord, with about 4,200 inhabitants, located about 200 miles to the northwest of Detroit.
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The phenomenon caused serious damage in the locality, where they could see overturned cars and collapsed structures.
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On Friday afternoon, a spokesman for the health system reported that Gaylord-Ostego Memorial Hospital attended to 23 people injured for the tornado.
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Two dead and more than 40 wounded
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Later, police of the town confirmed that a person lost his life during the tornado. This Saturday, confirmed death of another personwith which the fatal balance went up to two.
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both victims would have been hit by the tornado in the Nottingham Forest Mobile Home Parka place to RVs.
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In total, it was detailed more than 40 people were cared for in four different hospitals region of.
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After the passage of the tornado Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, issued an emergency declaration for Ostego County, which includes the town of Gaylord.
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“Michigans are strong. We are resilient. We will do whatever it takes to rebuild. There is no challenge that we cannot overcome together,” he wrote. your Twitter account.
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This was the tornado told by those affected
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Mike Klepadlo, owner of the Alter-Start North auto repair shop, told the AP that he and his workers took refuge in a bathroom.
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“I am lucky to be alive. He blew up the back of the building,” commented. “6 meters (20 feet) of the back wall is gone. The entire roof is missing. Less than half of the building is still here. It’s bad”.
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Emma Goddard, 15, also told the AP that she was working at the Tropical Smoothie Cafe when she received a tornado alert on her phone.
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Thinking what weather it looked like “stormy, but not scary”He brushed it off and went back to what he was doing. Her mother called her and she assured her that she was fine.
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Two minutes later, she was serving a customer a cold drink when her co-worker’s mother came in yelling for them to go to the back of the building, Goddard said.
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They took refuge in the cold room, where they could hear the windows breaking.
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When they came out about 15 minutes later, they saw “some of our wrecked cars and debris all over the ground”Goddard said. Three neighboring businesses were destroyed, he added.
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