Tornados !
Saw them on Tuesday 8 Jan.08 17:15pm when I was relaxing in the Bathtub. Gary sent me some Paper clippings. Makes me just wonder what’s next.
A bus chassis was ripped from its wheels and tossed to the roof of one of the buildings on the Caledonia High School campus in Caledonia, Miss., Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008, following a possible tornado. Storms and strong winds ravaged a number of communities in central Mississippi. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, Kelly Tippett/AP Photo)
ABC NEWS - Storms from Illinois to Louisiana are spawning rare January tornados, including one twister that tossed a bus onto the roof of a school full of children.
The bus was sucked into the tornado's funnel in Caledonia, Miss. The huge vehicle was hurled like a toy on top of a high school gymnasium about 2 p.m. when students were still in class.
Luckily students were safe inside the solid brick walls, but the principal ordered everyone to take cover in the hallways.
Student Ryan Putnam said it was a terrifying experience.
"They had to move us all into one part of the school in the hallways. As we were sitting there, a girl sitting in front of me, she just passed out. I tried to shake her up, wiggle her and she wouldn't wake up," Putnam said.
Two students suffered minor injuries, but the damage could have been far worse if the tornado hit while students were boarding buses.
Towns Under Water
Tornadoes and heavy rain storms pummeled Mississippi and were blamed for the deaths of two motorists in separate crashes during the downpours.
In Alabama's Lamar County near the Mississippi line, at least two houses were destroyed in Sulligent, the National Weather Service said.
And in nearby Vernon, rescuers freed a woman who was pinned in her vehicle after a tree fell on it, said Don Dollar, an administrative assistant with the city.
WHEATLAND, WI -- A freak cluster of tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking railroad cars off their tracks and even temporarily halting justice in one courthouse.
Record temperatures were reported across much of the country Monday, and storms continued to pummel the nation's midsection as darkness fell. More warmth and storms were in store for Tuesday.
Tornadoes were reported or suspected Monday in southwest Missouri, southeastern Wisconsin, Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma. Two people were killed in Missouri.
Eleven houses in Wisconsin's Kenosha County were destroyed, five others had heavy damage and four had moderate damage, authorities said. About 13 people were injured, none seriously.
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