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Odd debris found around Norman following twisters
The Norman (Okla.) Transcript ^ | May 27, 2011 | Andrew Knittle

Posted on 05/27/2011 6:36:18 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09

NORMAN, Okla. — The power generated by a tornado is hard to wrap the mind around.

They can scoop up entire houses and fling them thousands of feet. Big rigs are blown apart like papier mâché toy trucks, and even cows have been known to take a ride they didn’t sign up for.

And with at least 10 souls lost to the tornadoes that ripped through central Oklahoma on Tuesday, they can be — and often are — deadly.

Even though Norman and much of Cleveland County was spared during the outbreak Tuesday, it was affected in a different way.

Shortly after tornadoes ripped through Goldsby and Blanchard, odd debris — anything from receipts to tree bark to insulation — began falling from the sky.

In one northwest Norman neighborhood called Castlerock, a ragged piece of a memory floated down from the sky and landed in Bobby Hare’s lawn.

(Excerpt) Read more at normantranscript.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: debris; picture; tornado

1 posted on 05/27/2011 6:36:23 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09
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To: SoonerStorm09
After finding the photograph, he posted it on Facebook on a page titled Oklahoma Storms Lost And Found.

After about a day, a Lexington woman contacted him through Facebook, claiming the photo belonged to her husband.

Any UFO debris?

2 posted on 05/27/2011 6:40:13 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 855 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
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I was hoping somebody would find the bamster’s real BC...


3 posted on 05/27/2011 8:48:26 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Equal probability...


4 posted on 05/27/2011 8:49:54 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 855 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
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To: SoonerStorm09
"...odd debris — anything from receipts to tree bark to insulation — began falling from the sky...."

Call me an assclown, but I do not find any of that odd.

5 posted on 05/27/2011 9:10:23 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: I Buried My Guns

Well, maybe 3 kinds of things — hey, that’s an odd number...


6 posted on 05/27/2011 10:34:15 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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