TOD:
On April 3, 1974, Louisville was besieged by tornadoes and we spent most of a 24-hour period in our basement with nothing but the lights on. I would have been 11 at the time. It was too dangerous, in my parents' opinion, to listen to the radio or watch a TV, so we had nothing to do but be bored. Thankfully, our area was not hit, but many of the neighborhoods around ours was.
I remember someone from school coming over to work on a class project more than a month after this happened. His neighborhood had been severely hit, and he couldn't get over all the trees we still had. The street at that time was lined with massive old oaks, many more than 30 feet tall. A number of those have been cut down in the intervening years because of age and disease, but the street is still shady and tranquil thanks to the ones that are left.
