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(4,949 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2012, 07:57 PM Mar 2012

Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states

Source: Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tornadoes touched down in a half-dozen states on Friday, killing one woman whose mobile home was flipped by a twister and causing damage to homes and businesses, authorities said.

The 60-year-old woman died in Jefferson County, Illinois, when a suspected tornado flipped her mobile home and blew it across a road into a farm field, said county coroner Eddie Joe Marks.
There was at least one other person injured in the county, located in the southern tip of Illinois.

"A young boy had just stepped into his home when the storm hit. He got away with minor scrapes and bruises but went to the hospital," Marks said.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-weather-tornadoesbre82m17h-20120323,0,6553615.story

More wild weather!!!

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Tornadoes cause one death, damage in half dozen states (Original Post) hue Mar 2012 OP

My friend is in Mt. Vernon and just e-mailed that to me. She knew the woman....n/t monmouth Mar 2012 #1

weather will continue to become more severe mbuch64 Mar 2012 #2

monmouth

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1. My friend is in Mt. Vernon and just e-mailed that to me. She knew the woman....n/t

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Fri Mar 23, 2012, 08:07 PM

Mar 2012

mbuch64

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2. weather will continue to become more severe

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Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:01 PM

Mar 2012

and unpredictable. I can't remember a year where we had such destructive tornadoes during the winter months. I live in a small town in central GA (Americus) and the legend I grew up hearing was that Native Americans first lived here because there had never been a tornado at our location. Yes, we had tornadoes outside of town every few years but never any sever weather near town. That changed several years ago when an F3 tornado came right through town and took out our hospital. It missed my house by two blocks, but I still got to hear the freight train. Scary thing is, this is only going to continue to get worse.

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