STLnpr: 'I just fell to my knees and cried': St. Louisans face devastating damage after tornado that killed 5

[Dennis Donovan]

STLnpr - ‘I just fell to my knees and cried’: St. Louisans face devastating damage after tornado that killed 5

St. Louis Public Radio | By Jessica Rogen, Brian Munoz, Chad Davis, Kate Grumke
Published May 17, 2025 at 12:48 p.m. CDT
Updated May 17, 2025 at 6:38 p.m. CD



Penrose Street in north St. Louis was a sea of red bricks on Saturday morning, after storms and a tornado tore through the region on Friday afternoon.

The majority of the homes on the street are damaged, and some are totally collapsed. Throughout the city's O'Fallon neighborhood, dozens of historic trees are snapped in half or uprooted by the wind and power lines are strewn across the road. Electricity is shut down.

Outside, residents are doing the best they can to start cleaning up the devastating damage.

“Most of my life I lived here on the north side, and I've never experienced a tornado in St. Louis at all, never,” said Dolly Baskin, who lives on Penrose Street. She was at work when she got a call from her housemate, Cornell Jeffrey, his voice trembling, saying that their home had been hit.

“I had to park down the street because I couldn't get through,” she said. “I jumped out and I ran down here and when I got here and walked in, I just fell to my knees and cried.”

The storm blew the roof off and ripped off the back of Baskin’s home. Inside, her belongings were tossed about by the storm. The refrigerator doors were torn off.

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[synni]

1. This season has just been horrifying

[GiqueCee]

2. And, thanks to Trump...

... there will no longer be ample warning of impending storms capable of such damage. And those storms are increasing in frequency and severity.
But, but, but, the poor billionaires! What about those tax cuts they don't need or deserve? Shit's gotta get real for those fuckers, or it will never change.
And the room-temperature IQs that support Trump don't seem to be able to make the connection between their looming misfortune and the gloating shitbags that have zero remorse for the harm their greed exacts from those least able to afford it. But the South End of a Northbound Yak validates their bigotry, and that's all that matters to them.
There has got to be an accounting, and it had better be soon.

[Butterflylady]

3. Mother nature is desperately trying to tell us something.....

And the Republicans aren't listening.....