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Iowa Grain Elevator Collapse Traps Family in Home
FOXNews.com ^
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007
| AP
Posted on 11/20/2007 9:01:58 PM PST by metmom
DES MOINES, Iowa — A grain bin collapsed and sent a tidal wave of corn into a home, sweeping it off its foundation, trapping a family of four and shaking the ground for miles.
One man was taken to a hospital after being buried for hours in grain and debris in Hillsboro in southeast Iowa.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: grain; iowa
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:01:59 PM PST
by
metmom
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:02:18 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
Too bad it wasn’t the Democrat candidates! We could get rid of all of them in one fell swoop!
Hope the family is OK though.
To: metmom
It’s amazing that everyone survived!
To: metmom
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:05:31 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
To: metmom
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:07:30 PM PST
by
null and void
(No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
To: null and void
Note to self:
Don’t live too close to a large corn bin or elevator, or anything with enough corn in it to crush you like a grape.
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:11:33 PM PST
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right but never in doubt)
To: Jeff Chandler
The bin — about 100 feet in diameter, 90 feet high and containing more than 500,000 bushels of corn That's about 28,000,000 pounds of corn and $1,500,000.
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:13:31 PM PST
by
VanShuyten
("Believe me or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear...But his soul was mad.")
To: VanShuyten
Kind of a corny story if you ask me.
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:27:59 PM PST
by
umgud
(the profound is only so to those that it is)
To: metmom
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:38:01 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: metmom
As long as nobody uses a phase-conjugate tracking mirror to aim a five-megawatt laser at it, everything should be fine.
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posted on
11/20/2007 9:53:11 PM PST
by
Fabozz
To: Cobra64
Forget the “ethanol” — with a house full of corn it’s time to make some moonshine.
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posted on
11/20/2007 10:19:11 PM PST
by
AZLiberty
(President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
To: AZLiberty
Forget the “ethanol” — with a house full of corn it’s time to make some moonshine. Hey, they're all over around here in NC.
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posted on
11/20/2007 10:31:29 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: metmom
Jesse and Jen is my ex-girlfrend’s best friend. I’ve been in their home a number of times. Last news is everyone is OK, Jesse is in good condition.
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posted on
11/20/2007 10:34:46 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy.)
To: metmom
I wonder if they are Obama supporters?
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posted on
11/20/2007 10:45:01 PM PST
by
murron
To: Free Vulcan
I’m glad they made it OK. What a horrible way to go, crushed to death by corn.
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posted on
11/21/2007 10:34:55 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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