REBUILDING AND RESOLVE. LOWELL: ITAS W 20 YEARS AGO TODAHEREY IN LAPLATA WHEN ONE OF THE WORST NATURAL DISASTERS IN STATE HISTORY OCCURRED. A VIOLENT TORNADO RIPPED THROUGH, LEAVING DEATH AND ...

Anthony Puzzilla of La Plata recently released his new book “Hope Triumphs over Chaos, The La Plata Tornado of April 28, 2002” through Canoe Press that commemorates the 20-year anniversary of the ...

On the evening April 28, 2002, a strong weather system moving east over the Appalachian Mountains spawned a tornado that would bear down on the town of La Plata. Current Mayor of La Plata Jeannine ...

LA PLATA, Md. (WJZ) --On this day 20 years ago, one of the most powerful tornadoes to ever hit the Mid-Atlantic carved a 64-mile path across southern Maryland. "You wouldn't recognize this town if you ...

When visiting La Plata, Maryland, it's hard to imagine that much of the town was leveled by a tornado 20 years ago. "We just went through a tornado and we're sitting in a building and there's ...

Some La Plata residents who survived the 2002 tornado remembered the deadly tornado that ripped through a La Plata schoolhouse in 1926.

Home for Deborah McClain and husband Wayne Barnes was once a modest, rented townhouse in a safe La Plata neighborhood, a short walk from her job and close to schools for their six children. But since ...

On a Sunday evening in late April 2002, a deadly supercell storm tore across the DMV, killing five people and causing millions of dollars worth of damage. Twenty-three years ago, the historic La Plata ...

The National Weather Service announced yesterday that the April 28 tornado that claimed five lives in and around La Plata was an F4 on the Fujita Damage Scale, and not an F5 as preliminary assessments ...

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