Liar
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Jesus on a pogo stick, why don't you just move, dammit?
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/8824778.htm
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Against a tornado, she wins
Conway Springs woman clings to toilet and survives being carried away by storm
BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
With storms approaching Saturday night, Diane Neises' mother called to alert her. "Oh, Mom, it's not doing anything," Neises said. It wasn't even raining outside her manufactured home just south of Conway Springs.
But when Neises, 46, looked out her window later, she saw a funnel cloud a half-mile away.
Neises (pronounced "NICE-us") said Wednesday that she had seen funnel clouds before. But this was by far the biggest -- a gray monster of a tornado. And the monster churned toward her, chewing up a neighbor's house as she watched.
She thought about getting into her pickup and trying to outrun the twister. She was alone; her husband, Steve, was at a friend's.
Instead, she remembers, she headed into a windowless bathroom, dropped to the floor and locked her arms around the most secure fixture around -- the toilet.
She held on as the computer in the next room exploded in the tornado's fury.
She held on as water lines snapped, shooting up water beneath her.
She felt herself being lifted.
While gripping the toilet, something hit the back of her head, apparently leaving her unconscious.
No one knows for sure, but Neises thinks the tornado must have hurled her a half-mile, to the other side of a hedgerow. That's where two storm chasers found her.
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Aah, just go read the rest here
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/8824778.htm
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Against a tornado, she wins
Conway Springs woman clings to toilet and survives being carried away by storm
BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
With storms approaching Saturday night, Diane Neises' mother called to alert her. "Oh, Mom, it's not doing anything," Neises said. It wasn't even raining outside her manufactured home just south of Conway Springs.
But when Neises, 46, looked out her window later, she saw a funnel cloud a half-mile away.
Neises (pronounced "NICE-us") said Wednesday that she had seen funnel clouds before. But this was by far the biggest -- a gray monster of a tornado. And the monster churned toward her, chewing up a neighbor's house as she watched.
She thought about getting into her pickup and trying to outrun the twister. She was alone; her husband, Steve, was at a friend's.
Instead, she remembers, she headed into a windowless bathroom, dropped to the floor and locked her arms around the most secure fixture around -- the toilet.
She held on as the computer in the next room exploded in the tornado's fury.
She held on as water lines snapped, shooting up water beneath her.
She felt herself being lifted.
While gripping the toilet, something hit the back of her head, apparently leaving her unconscious.
No one knows for sure, but Neises thinks the tornado must have hurled her a half-mile, to the other side of a hedgerow. That's where two storm chasers found her.
...
Aah, just go read the rest here
