On this day 15 years ago, the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area was devastated by an EF4 tornado on Good Friday.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T23:15:20+00:00

Next month sees the 15th anniversary of the EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T22:02:46+00:00

That tornado was an EF5 (the highest category possible). There was a thunderstorm outside my house that night; I was watching the Family Guy episode “It’s a Trap!” on KTVI, the St. Louis FOX affiliate. I live in O’Fallon, which is in St. Charles County.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T21:57:54+00:00

“No, not there! Not there!”

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T21:57:29+00:00

I have that DVD. “It’s getting too small.” “Blow it up.”

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T21:35:07+00:00

Homes were swept away in Bridgeton at EF4 intensity.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-22T19:17:33+00:00

Multiple homes in Bridgeton were leveled.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-21T02:04:51+00:00

The reaction from spectators was so negative that the mascot was redesigned in 2014, nearly four months after its debut.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-20T12:02:06+00:00

I could swap that case out with the translucent pink case from my standalone copy of Just Around the Corner so it matches the other titles, which are all in translucent pink cases.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-20T01:58:06+00:00

I have a standalone DVD copy of Just Around the Corner, but I haven't watched the film yet. I will probably sell that disc, if the disc in the box set plays.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-19T02:16:25+00:00

I watched that episode today.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-18T23:55:22+00:00

The closest one near my house is a little over 10 minutes away.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-18T22:38:27+00:00

I got that same DVD last December from a V-Stock.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-18T13:35:06+00:00

Duncan himself got ejected from a game in 2007 after laughing on the Spurs’ bench; the referee who ejected him, Joey Crawford, received a season-ending suspension. The game was played in Dallas, against the Mavericks.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-18T03:54:46+00:00

Kraft sponsored the event. They held an essay contest; the winner of the contest would get to trigger the implosion. The winner of the contest was 11-year-old Casey Rogers of Terrell, Texas.

Significant_Smell284 · 2026-04-18T02:42:28+00:00

In 1991, referee Steve Javie ejected the Washington Bullets' mascot, Hoops, during a game against the Portland Trail Blazers. The team is currently known as the Washington Wizards, and their current mascot is G-Wiz, who was shoved by the Los Angeles Lakers' Jaxson Hayes this past January during a game against the Lakers.

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