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1938: a slowly SE bound F5 tornado veered SW as it approached Clyde, TX. A car with six occupants was fleeing from the N part of Clyde, only to drive directly into the storm. Both survivors were found 1/2 mile from the car, still clutching their teddy bear and dolly when found. Additionally, there were 10 other storm related fatalities.

1990: 3/4" to >1.5" of rain within an hour caused some run off problems in Las Vegas, NV. Every underpass in the city was flooded, two people died (one, a woman in her car, was swept a mile down a concrete washway). A 4' wall of water swept a bus with 13 people in it to within 40' of Flamingo Wash.

1991: lighting struck the Louis Vieux in Loiusville, KS. It is the largest American Elm tree in the U.S. and dates back to the 1800's as a landmark/meeting place along the Oregon Trail. 3/4ths of it survived and so it remains on the National Register of Champion Elm Trees.

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[RightWhale]

Those are meteors.

[CO Gal]

Thanks for putting me on your ping list. I ONLY thing I miss about getting rid of cable was losing the Weather Channel. Those storm shows are so awesome.

[mmercier]

I see these stories on the {Armageddon) weather channel. I,m a closet weather junkie.

Every day in America, 11 people die from the weather.

There are 400 lightning strikes per second on the planet.

There is a tornado somewhere at this moment, in fact at every moment of every day there is at least one tornado somewhere.

There are thousands of other things that we have not yet even considered because we have not yet observed them.

[xJones]

Please put me on your ping list.

The last thing I remember was the tornado that hit downtown Ft. Worth, TX in 2000. We were all killed.:)

[QwertyKPH]

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