EVANSVILLE — In the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2005, an F3 tornado carved a path of almost unspeakable destruction through the Tri-State, killing more than two dozen people and leaving a tangled, twisted mess of homes – many of them mobile homes – in its wake.
That tornado was one of nine confirmed twisters spawned across the Mississippi Valley and the Midwest by a thunderstorm that would strike Evansville around 2 a.m., when most of the city was asleep and unaware of the approaching danger.
Among the hardest-hit areas was the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park, where 20 of the tornado’s victims perished, including 2-year-old C.J. Martin, whose death became a catalyst for a successful drive to reshape safety standards for mobile homes across Indiana and the country…