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Old 08-21-2003, 10:01 PM  
iroc409
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Originally posted by Carrie
PS - The fire could miss it totally, I've seen strange things like that happen.
Up in PA there was a tornado that ripped up the mountain my grandparents lived on. Devastated everything and I mean *everything* on the side of that mountain.

Except for one house... it did a circle around the house, 50 feet away the entire way around... and then just kept on trucking. It's like the house had a tornado-proof bubble around it. Weirdest thing you've ever seen.

You know how crop circles have stalks of corn laid down in circular patterns? That's how the trees - full grown trees - were laid down in a circle around this house. All stripped bare of their leaves and most of their branches, but laid down perfectly around the house like a crop circle. Cool as hell.

that's really not strange for a tornado at all. they are a very strange breed of storm. they'll tear apart an entire farm, then rip all the paint off a house, but leave the house standing. then go a few miles down the road and toss a combine into the next county.

just think for a minute how much a combine weighs
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