Letters From The Time Traveler: The Chicago Tornado 2025
Dearest,
Today I needed to share with you about the Chicago Tornado of 2025.
My history with tornados is not great. After surviving the Tri-State tornado of 1925, I was not keen to repeat the experience. I had also been in other storms but none as big as 1925. Until the 2025 tornado.
On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States. In all, at least 751 people were killed and more than 2,298 were injured, making the outbreak the deadliest tornado outbreak, March 18 the deadliest tornado day, and 1925 the deadliest tornado year in U.S. history.[3] The outbreak generated several destructive tornadoes in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on the same day, as well as significant tornadoes in Alabama and Kansas. In addition to confirmed tornadoes, there were undoubtedly others with lesser impacts, the occurrences of which have been lost to history.[1]
As I am mostly stationed in the midwest, it becomes a fact of life. But from the start of this assignment in 2020 until now, the majority of natural disasters happened in the west and the south. The midwest, where I was living, had been spared the brunt of it.
