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BE&O Podcast – Running Your Business – WISH 70TH Anniversary Tornados

BE&O Podcast – Running Your Business – WISH 70TH Anniversary Tornados

March 13, 2025

HISTORY TELLS US THAT NATURAL DISASTERS CAN BE DEVESTATING. 

HOW YOU PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY (AND RESPOND TO THE REALITY) CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN HOW YOUR BUSINESS RECOVERS. 

IN INDIANA, WE'VE HAD FLOODS, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, BLIZZARDS, AND ALL TOO FREQUENTLY TORNAOS.  

IN 2002, ONE OF THE BIGGEST TORNADOS IN OUR STATE'S HISTORY STARTED IN THE SOUTHWEST, TORE THROUGH CENTRAL INDIANA AND DID NOT STOP UNTIL IT HIT BLACKFORD COUNTY, STAYING ON THE GROUND FOR 112 MILES.

EVERYONE SURVIVED, BUT MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE WERE HURT AND THE TALLY OF DAMAGE CAME IT AT MORE THAN $150 MILLION. 

THAT STORM IS ONE OF SEVERAL WE WILL FEATURE IN OUR NEXT '70TH ANNIVERSAY SPECIAL' COMING UP WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  

YOU'LL SEE EXCLISIVE VIDEO FROM OUR ARCHIVES AND HEAR ACCOUNTS FROM WISH-TV REPORTERS, METOEROLIGISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO WERE THERE, ON THE GROUND DURING ONE OF INDIANA'S TRUE CATASTROPHES.