VIDEO: Tornado roars through Michigan town, causing tragic damage
A tornado forms over Gaylord, Michigan in 2022. (via WDIV)
It all seemed like a normal day in a northern Michigan town, until Mother Nature came in and changed everything.
This happened in 2022 and is part of a series where we are looking back at most-watched viral videos.
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The video had more than 178,000 views at the time this story was published.
The footage shows a tornado forming in the sky over Gaylord, Michigan, a town more than three hours north of Detroit in the northern portion of the state’s Lower Peninsula.
The tornado then forms and strikes a portion of the town, causing debris to fly everywhere .
Watch the video above to see the how the town was affected.
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