
Stacey Yates Remembers the 1974 Tornado
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Stacey Yates recounts remembers the tornado that swept through Louisville.
Stacey Yates recounts remembers the tornado that swept through Louisville when she was four years ol
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Stacey Yates Remembers the 1974 Tornado
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Stacey Yates recounts remembers the tornado that swept through Louisville when she was four years ol
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo this is Louisville moment and chief marketing officer for Louisville Tourism, Stacy Yates is here to tell us about your most memorable, significant moment in Louisville for you.
Okay, so this is going to date me, but I was four years old, so you can do the math in 1974 when a very significant tornado came through.
And I remember I lived in Crescent Hill, which was one of the harder hit, not the Indian hills or rolling fields hit, but my mother was pregnant with my brother.
He would be born like ten days later.
We still have jokes about the year of the tornado, and that's appropriate for him.
But I just the sound I remember we were and we lived in an old Victorian house in Crescent Hill.
We had to go we had to lift the wood for the cellar to go into.
And it sounded like somebody taking the lids of metal trash cans and scraping them on concrete.
Some people would say, like a train.
We lived by the train tracks that sounded like more screeching than that.
And I'll never forget the look on my dad's face.
He's got not only it was his four year old daughter, his pregnant wife, but my grandmother, his mom was with us that day and all he had.
But while before cell phones, all he had was information.
Listening to 84 US radio driving home.
He knows Crescent Hill has been hit.
It's been hit bad.
He can't get us on the phone.
Trees are blocking his entrance to our street.
And so he had a park up at the top of the street.
They say, My family's there, He runs, and I'll just never forget that look on his face, seeing that, you know, us and hugging my mother.
And that was probably the most significant moment, I guess.
And now, like looking so many trees were lost in like Cherokee Park and all along Frankford Avenue that just thinking of what that would look like today if that hadn't gone through and we were lucky.
Yes.
Yeah.

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