Friday, June 27, 2025

Florida Tornado Lifts Home Sideways For 20 Seconds With Woman Inside. Dramatic Video

As the Largo, Florida enters the neighborhood Wednesday,
roofing begins to fly off neighboring buildings. Then......
 A rare for June struck Largo, Florida Wednesday, damaging a mobile home park and yielding a dramatic video of what the twister did to one mobile home.  

You can watch the video at the bottom of this post. 

An older woman was inside, but miraculously, she got out with minor injuries.

The Ring security camera clip, from Fox 13 Tampa   which you can view at the bottom of this post, shows the tornado lifting here home so the bottom of it was vertical. The twister held the home in that position for nearly 20 seconds. Then the home slammed back down onto the ground, about where it had been in the first place. 

The woman, Deborah Mettler, 76, told WFTS-TV in Tampa Bay, Florida that it was like a Wizard of Oz experience.

You don't say.

The home next to the Ring camera is lifted off its 
foundation, and hangs perpendicular in the air for
nearly 20 seconds before crashing back to the ground. 
"I didn't realize I was actually up in the air......I was too busy doing somersaults and getting thrashed from one side of the room, through the wall, to the other side.

"I ended up back here in the bedroom. I had been in what was the family room and stepped out, which was good, because it's no longer there at all.  So if I had stayed in that room, I don't know what would have happened to me."  

The tornado damaged about 65 homes, but few were completely destroyed like Mettler's was. The EF-1 tornado had top winds of 90 mph and traveled about 2.1 miles through the city of Largo. 

VIDEO:

To view, click on this link or if you see the image below, click on that. 



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