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Toenadoes are "nature's most violent storms" according to NOAA They have known to lift railroad cars off its tracks. strip asphalt from a road, and drive wood splinters into bricks. One survivor of the country's most devastating twister, the 1925 Tristate Tornado, recalled watching a baby being blown from it's mothers arms and a cow "hurled into the village restaurant." In one documented case, a golf course flag landed 43 miles from the course in another a man's jacket was found 20 miles from his home., In the wake of last month's outbreak in Alabama, witnesses spoke of "whole neighborhoods reduced to matchsticks" in minutes. "the door started to shake, the glass in the windows broke, and it felt like our ears were Where we just were, it was gone."
Breifing NEWS 13 THE WEEK May 27, 2011