I can still remember the night of May 20- 1957 like it was last week.
I was only 4-1/2-years-old at the time when an F-5 tornado tore through Hickman Mills and Ruskin Heights in what is now south Kansas City-MO..
I spent most of that evening in a dining room coat closet while the voice of KC broadcasting icon Walt Bodine warned of the impending disaster. 
Still- 39 people died in what is still the Kansas City MetroRegion's deadliest tornado.
That tornado left an indelible mark on it's survivors and it left me with a lifelong passion for weather and later on- the world of television news.
This rememberance is dedicated to the victims- as well as the survivors of The Ruskin Heights Tornado of May 20- 1957- 51 years ago today.
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