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  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Enormous tornado destroys homes near Oklahoma City

    Tornadoes ravaged parts of Oklahoma reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the US on Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. ...

  • Tornadoes ravage Oklahoma kill 1

    Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the nation's midsection Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched ...

  • Deadly tornadoes strike Oklahoma

    Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing parts of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the US's mid-west. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. "You ...

  • Tornadoes tear through Midwest at least 1 killed in Oklahoma 21 more injured

    SHAWNEE, Okla. Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. "You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up," Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after ...

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An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

In a great throwaway moment on an early-90s episode of The Simpsons, Martin, Barts nerdish acquaintance from school, makes the mistake of wasting his last bit of cash on a talking Al Gore doll. He illustrates the foolishness of his purchase by pulling the string on ... ...

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  • Tornadoes level Oklahoma trailer park hit other states

    EDMOND, Okla. - One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.At least ...

  • Twister kills 1 in Oklahoma

    >Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 2:05 a.m. ET](CNN) -- A tornado touched down in Golden City, Missouri, early Monday morning and tore through two counties, Barton County Emergency Management Director Tom Ryan ...

  • Edmond residents cleaning up tornado damage

    EDMOND, Okla. – Residents in southeast Edmond are cleaning up damage caused by a tornado that rolled through several neighborhoods Sunday evening near Bryant Ave. between 15th St. and 33rd St. The twister damaged several homes and uprooted dozens of trees. ';It was seven, eight, nine seconds of the most intense white light and wind blowing like nothing I’d ever seen in my ...

  • Video Video Tornado destruction in Carney Oklahoma

    One of several twisters that ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas Sunday night destroyed several mobile homes in a trailer park 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma ...

  • Tornadoes leave one dead level homes in Oklahoma

    SEAN MURPHY Associated Press SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the neighborhood. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth also said that six people who lived in the mobile home park were injured. Between 30 and 35 homes had significant damage, and ...

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