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Take a look at this photo:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=B2&Dato=20110422&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=304220091&Ref=PH&odyssey=mod%7Cdnmiss%7Cumbrella%7C1&Item=7

The pic is from April 5,1974, the morning after an EF4 tornado blasted through Louisville, devastating several neighborhoods, two large city parks and pieces of I-71. Two Louisville Transit buses got caught in the storm.

Operator of this westbound Broadway bus was stopped between Speed Avenue and Bonnycastle Avenue on Bardstown Road when utility poles started wagging and breaking off at the curb. He got the handful of passengers on the floor under the seats and they rode out the storm's full fury. The bus emerged virtually unscathed, although it took a week to get it out of there! The other bus was an elderly TDH4507 that was sitting down on Brownsboro Road at Chenoweth Lane. It didn't get a direct hit like this guy, but all of the windows got sucked out of the driver's side!

The timecruncher was working on that fateful Thursday. It was payday, and I dropped by the garage to get my check, and got begged to work a couple of trips on the Oak Street crosstown route. When the storm was pelting the bus in the photo, I was less than a mile away on St. Catherine Street at Shelby Street driving into a wall of rain.

Funny how some events in your life are vivid as the day it happened 37 years later, eh?

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