This area is not known for tornados, but they do happen from time to time.
- I know this firsthand, although I somehow managed to sleep through the twister, I did see the results of it tearing through my neighborhood one night.
At first I thought I was seeing things, because most houses on the street looked fine and dandy, but a few others had been savagely attacked by the twister. A few were missing roofs, and two homes were altogether destroyed! I gave my house a quick exterior inspection, and aside from some missing shingles it did not appear to be damaged. There was a smashed up air conditioning unit in my backyard, though, one that did not belong to me! I would guess that originally this chunk of metal and wires might have weighed 200 pounds or more, but now it was just a pile of metallic shreds in the shape of an air conditioner. I could see the metal struts on the bottom of the AC unit, where it had been attached to a cement slab. There were still bits of broken cement on the metal struts, showing me how strong that tornado must have been to pick up that air conditioner and throw it across the town. It would be some weeks later that I found out the air conditioner belonged to a family that lived about twelve miles away from me. Imagine the strength of winds needed to pick up an entire air conditioner and carry it for twelve whole miles! It absolutely blows my mind.
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