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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 ...

  • Tornadoes slam several states 300 homes hit

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • Severe storms possible in Oklahoma again Monday

    More severe storms are possible Monday and Monday night in Oklahoma, the National Weather Service reports. The Oklahoma City forecast is as ...

  • Westbound I-40 reopens at U.S. 177 in Shawnee Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports

    All lanes of westbound Interstate 40 have reopened in the Shawnee, Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. The interstate was closed due to overturned vehicles in the Sunday ...

  • Tornadoes tear through Plains 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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  • Deadly twisters tear through Oklahoma

    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 ...

  • Tornado leaves trail of destruction in Oklahoma - video

    Aerial footage shows parts of Oklahoma after a tornado on Sunday. One mobile home park near the town of Shawneeto was reduced to rubble. The body of a 79-year-old man was found nearby. Tornadoes also swept across Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, part of a north-eastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to ...

  • Twisters batter Oklahoma destroying homes injuring 21

    A series of tornadoes raked a broad swath of the Midwest on Sunday, destroying homes and a trailer park in Oklahoma and injuring at least 21 people, officials said. As night fell, rescuers with flashlights picked through the rubble of a trailer park in Shawnee, Okla., that was heavily damaged in the storm, as were a number of homes across the state. James Hoke's mobile home was among ...

  • Tornadoes pummel several states and kill 1

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • At least four tornadoes sweep through Oklahoma wreaking havoc and destruction

    Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park in Oklahoma killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the ...

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