Daniel Schaefer @DschaeferDaniel

Don’t just want one … I need one! Spent most of the day yesterday cutting my lawn and field

Flying the path of the Dwight, IL tornado where cycloidal swirl marks reveal where individual vortices ripped young corn and soybean plants out of the ground and dug into the top layer of the soil: youtu.be/7n1tkJGO2lQ

@skydrama Wow.

@gavin_spoor I remember running a gas 706 and it was hard to shift gears. Had the AM radio on the right side fender and that maybe why I am hard of hearing. 🤣

Another day of significant severe weather appears increasingly likely on Wed, June 17th across portions of Missouri and Illinois. Much more to come as details become clear, but high-end wind damage and tornadoes are on the table once again.

@GasBuddyGuy @LUFC1992_v2 Add .90 for Illinois. We pay extra to…I don’t know why

@gavin_spoor Yield?

@MikeNeef @BumperCrop1 Also it’s a group of small towns. Tolono, Pesotum and Sadorus go to Unity West and Philo and Sidney to Unity East. Also remember all those acres of farm ground pay real estate tax to support the schools. Not just the towns.

@MikeNeef @BumperCrop1 Good catch. I was thinking the same.

Everyone knows Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued from the beaches, the "miracle" that saved Britain. Almost nobody knows what happened 8 days later, 100 miles down the coast. This story was buried for years, and once you hear it you will understand why. While Dunkirk was being evacuated, the 51st Highland Division was deliberately kept in France. Churchill wanted to prove to the French that Britain would not abandon them. So 10,000 Scotsmen kept fighting along the Somme while everyone else went home. They fought well. Too well to retreat in time. By June 10, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, moving so fast the Germans called it the Ghost Division, had cut them off from every port. The Highlanders fell back to a tiny fishing town called Saint-Valery-en-Caux, with cliffs at their backs and the Royal Navy on the way. A second Dunkirk. That was the plan. Operation Cycle, ships waiting offshore. Then the fog rolled in. The ships could not reach the beaches in the dark and mist. And by morning, Rommel had artillery on the cliffs above the town, firing down on anything that floated. Men climbed down cliff faces on ropes made of rifle slings trying to reach boats. Some fell. The rescue never came. On June 12, 1940, Major General Victor Fortune surrendered the 51st Highland Division to Rommel. There is a famous photo of the two men standing together, Rommel grinning, Fortune staring into the distance like he is somewhere else. 10,000 men marched east into 5 years of captivity. In parts of the Highlands, nearly every family knew someone in the bag. They called it the lost division, and for decades many Scots quietly believed they had been sacrificed. Two details worth knowing. Fortune was offered better treatment as a general. He refused privileges and stayed with his men for the entire war, organizing care for the sick and keeping discipline in the camps. He was knighted from a hospital bed after liberation. And in September 1944, the rebuilt 51st Highland Division was given one specific assignment, at the request of its commander. They liberated Saint-Valery-en-Caux. The pipers played in the same square where their brothers had surrendered four years earlier. Dunkirk got the movie. These men got the long war. Worth remembering them today.

This is the full CBS interview of storm chaser Scott Lasker talking about his experience. But this is downright disgusting and unacceptable to record someone trapped in debris and not having a thought of dropping the camera to help while they are in pain as they look at the camera. This is not what storm chasing is about and should never do in this situation, like help out and stop going for fame. This is also one of the reasons why storm chasers in general get a bad reputation.

Scope Report @ScopeReport_

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WATCH: Man rescued from the rubble of a home in Streator, Illinois following the tornado.

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El Niño is officially here! @NOAA National Weather Service announced today that El Niño has developed in the tropical Pacific, issuing an El Niño Advisory. They say it's expected to strengthen through fall and winter, but there's also a 63% chance the event reaches "very strong" status. The timing is notable: 75% of the U.S. is currently experiencing dryness or drought conditions, a slight improvement from last week. But a year ago, that figure was just 48%. A stronger El Niño could bring much-needed moisture to some drought-stricken areas. But the two areas meteorologists are still concerned about? The Pacific Northwest and parts of the South.

Significant ground scouring north of Koats, Indiana. @MyRadarWX #wxtwitter #inwx

Timelapse shot of just a section of damage path north of Kouts, IN. This was a very violent #tornado with significant ground scaring. @MyRadarWX #inwx

Sorry for radio silence, nonstop, filming tornadoes with my jaw on the floor in North Central Illinois.

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Quick edit showing some of the intense moments today while documenting 8 tornadoes in northern Illinois into Indiana. Massive shoutout to @skydrama for nailing the forecast in the warm sector. Hands down the craziest tornado outbreak I've ever documented. Full video will be released in the near future on the @thestormreel YouTube page. #ilwx #inwx #tornado #outbreak

Today will go down as the craziest weather day I have ever covered in my home state. Gambled east in the open warm sector / modifying outflow regime ahead of the PFT/cold front and it paid off in the form of numerous large, damaging, but photogenic tornadoes in central Illinois.

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Looking a bit western here in eastern Illinois

On June 9, 1944, the French Resistance captured a senior SS officer named Helmut Kämpfe near Limoges. The next morning, his unit, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, was looking for a response. They had already hanged 99 men from the balconies of Tulle the day before, chosen at random from townspeople, leaving them to strangle slowly in front of their families because they couldn't find enough rope for a proper drop. Now they needed something more. On June 10, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann led his men to Oradour-sur-Glane. Some historians believe he confused it with Oradour-sur-Vayres, a different village where the Resistance was actually active. Others believe he knew exactly where he was. Either way, at 2pm his soldiers blocked every road in and out of the village. They told everyone to gather in the marketplace for a routine identity check. People complied. A dentist came. A farmer left his fields. Schoolchildren were told by their teachers not to worry, they'd be back by dinner. A man cycling through town stopped to see what was happening. By 2:30pm, around 650 people were standing in the square. Then the soldiers separated the men. The women and children were marched to the church. The 190 men were divided into six groups and taken to barns across the village. The mayor, Dr. Paul Desourteaux, reportedly tried to negotiate. There was nothing to negotiate. In the barns, the soldiers opened fire but aimed deliberately at legs. At thighs. At knees. The goal was not to kill but to incapacitate. To ensure that when they piled straw over the bodies and lit it, nobody could crawl away. Men who were on fire and still conscious screamed while soldiers stood outside the doors. Six men survived by playing dead beneath other bodies. One died from his burns days later. Five lived. In the church, the women had been waiting almost two hours with the children. Soldiers carried in a large wooden box and placed it in the nave. They lit a fuse and left. The explosion released a thick, suffocating smoke. Soldiers then entered and opened fire on anyone still moving. Then they piled wood, straw, and chairs onto the bodies and lit everything. The church bell rang for hours as the fire climbed the tower. Women broke windows. Those who reached the ledge were shot before they could jump. One woman, 47-year-old Marguerite Rouffanche, crawled behind the altar, found a small window, and squeezed through. She dropped three meters to the ground. A 19-year-old named Henriette Joyeux saw her and followed, throwing her seven-month-old baby out first. Soldiers shot the baby out of the air. Then shot Henriette. Then shot Marguerite five times as she ran. Marguerite survived by lying still beneath pea plants in a garden while the village burned around her. She lay there until the next morning. She was the only person to leave the church alive. The youngest confirmed victim was seven days old. After the killings, the soldiers spent the afternoon looting every building. Food, valuables, livestock, wine. Some burned homes with elderly residents still inside. Then they ate dinner. That evening. In the area. The next morning, relatives from surrounding villages arrived looking for their families. They found 642 dead and a village of smoking ruins. The aftermath is almost as horrifying as the massacre itself. At the 1953 war crimes tribunal, 65 men were indicted. Only 20 could be found. Fourteen were Alsatians, French citizens, and Alsace threatened to riot if its sons were convicted. An amnesty law was quietly passed. Almost everyone walked free within a year. Nobody spent meaningful time in prison for Oradour-sur-Glane. By French law, nothing in the original village may be moved, repaired, or altered. The rusted cars sit in the street where they burned. The sewing machines are fused to the shop floors. The baby carriages are still there. The church stands open to the sky with a plaque listing the names of the children killed inside. You can walk through it today. 82 years ago this morning, those 642 people had no idea. The dentist was thinking about his afternoon appointments. The teachers were relieved the children were behaving. The man on the bicycle was annoyed about the delay. By 6pm they were all dead, and the soldiers who killed them were eating dinner. Never forget Oradour-sur-Glane.