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Tornadoes rip through US towns
Toronto Telegraph
Sunday 11th May, 2008
Powerful tornadoes have strewn debris across the United States, while shattering homes and businesses and killing at least 21 people.
Missouri emergency officials said there were 13 confirmed dead in the state with a massive search still taking place for survivors.
Tornadoes ploughed across the mid-west and south-east of the US, with the numbers injured and the extent of the damage to property and infrastructure still unclear.
Numerous people were reported missing Sunday, while rescue and fire services were searching the many ruined buildings in the most remote areas for people who might have become trapped.
The south-east of the US was under threat of more storms Sunday.
The states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri have been worst hit by the storms that have been raging since Thursday.
In Oklahoma alone, five tornadoes have been registered.
At least 12 people were killed in Missouri, the majority of them near Seneca close to the Oklahoma border, where in the small town of Picher seven others died, including a young child.
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| By Anonymous, 05-12-08, 10:18 AM |
| As if tornadoes zipping thru' us towns here and there ain’t bad enough,a big sinkhole has appeared in texas,maybe near bush’s ranch. |
| By Tejas Gunas, 05-11-08, 11:11 PM |
Tornadoes rip through US townsseems a little early in the year for such dramas... |
| By Anonymous, 05-11-08, 11:02 PM |
Tornadoes rip through US townsLucky there is no global warming as well.. that would be bad? |
| By Professor west, 05-14-08, 12:59 PM |
The evil in the stormI watched a really good program last night entitled “surviving super tornadoes”, and was moved to tears. I still remember April 3 1974 because we came very close to being hit by one of those tornadoes that very night too. However, I have a better memory for a small outbreak of tornadoes in the early spring of 1962, for it was in that very year that I got a once in a life time chance to see the true evil behind of the storm. I now quote the words that a woman said on that tornado documentary “you could feel the evil associated with this storm” once I heard those words it sent chills down my spine, for it hit very close to home. You probably won’t believe what I’m going to tell you here and now because so far no one has taken me seriously.
I played a storm chaser for many years starting at the young age of seven. In 1962 while everybody else was hiding inside their houses, I was outside in the rain up on the roof of our small barn with my father’s binoculars watching the sky. I must admit that I stood up there for 10 to 15 minutes completely drenched from head to toe shivering and quite bit frightened at what I was watching at the time. Yes at the time, I witnessed two huge tornadoes roughly 1000 yards to the west that had crisscrossed each other as they laid down a path of destruction in front of me. However, the tornado that was now to the Northwest of my current position began to glow brightly like the sun’s rays were beading down through it at some point. Then I saw a hideous looking figure that seemed to be swimming around in the sky. In fact, it seemed to be skipping on all that debris that this tornado had just picked up. I know it sounds crazy and believe me I paid a terrible price for telling my parents this apparent lie. After all, without the physical evidence to back up my crazy story, I didn’t have prayer of convincing anybody of my sincerity.
That experience started my lifelong storm chaser quest to once again spot this thing and record its hideous image for the entire world to see. This quest of a lifetime ended in the late summer of 1989 in a small town called Milford Michigan were I recorded this storm of mild strength on video tape; however, this super weak thunderstorm had a very strange ending. It hit us like any other thunderstorm with lots of lightning a little thunder, and some strong winds too. They were not hurricane force winds, however; they did strip quite a few leaves off the trees. As this mild summer storm passed our location, the night time sky began to change back from its current pitch black to a deep dark blue, but this did not last long. As we all stood outside, the sky changed color once again, to a weird looking orange. As matter-of-fact to the many thousands of stunned onlookers, it was the strangest thing any of us had ever seen, myself not included. Oh yes I’ve seen the same thing back in 1962 when those two tornadoes crisscrossed a path of destruction a few thousand yards in front of me. Without hesitation, I began slowly panning the video camera in a 360° radius until it was facing the western sky. That’s when we all saw it approaching from out of the west, what was later described as one of the strangest looking tornadoes ever. It had no rotation whatsoever in it, however; it was very large, looking more like an F4 or an F5. As we, all marveled at this apparent freak of nature, I continued video taping the sky. Then there it was this time accompanied with an angelic being of some kind. Yes, the quest of a lifetime was now over for I had once again seen that hideous entity from the 1962 storm. However, this time unlike in that 1962 storm I had a video camera trained on it. Yes, everything that I’m telling you here and now would be considered hearsay evidence in any court of law. However, with the video proof to back me up, this hearsay evidence becomes 100% factual.
All this that I’m now telling you would have been ancient history already, if it wasn’t for the strange an unexplainable disappearance of the video data, which literally vanished with out a trace just four days after I recorded it. In retrospect, before that happened I was ready and willing to take the video and my story to the tabloids. As matter-of-fact, I did call the National Enquirer to obtain some information, just two days after I recorded these video images in the sky. That’s what I planed; fortunately, somebody had other plans for this awesome by all accounts video data from the past. Call it an act of divine providence because although I searched all my possessions many times over the years, that VHS cassette tape containing the storm data just couldn’t be found. Then after giving up all hope of ever finding it, a few days before Christmas 2007 the video recording resurfaced, and under some very strange consequences too. In addition, for 5 months now I have tried with very little or no luck at all, to get this story and the video data out to those who might believe it.
In conclusion, my heart truly goes out to all those dear people who lost there’re friends and family members over the years.
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