One spring afternoon on about 2013, there had been tornadoes in Oklahoma in the morning. Being in SW MO I was looking towards to skies for any exciting looking clouds and I think we were under a tornado watch.
The local news had told of one tornado in OK that had destroyed the attics of several homes and lofted material way way up into the atmosphere and was caught in upper level winds, with some pieces of a roofing felt and paper landing here in Springfield, MO.
As I walked down our street about 5 houses away from home I saw something tumbling down out of the increasingly gnarly looking sky. It came down a few yards away and I leaned over into the yard to grab it.
It was a piece of paper about an inch x an inch. A neatly cut piece of a page from some kind of school textbook..
The cut had been through a paragraph so it was only portions of sentences but the words were:
..and causes hot air to rise..
..the formation of tornadoes..
I honestly thought I was losing my mind.
I kept it with me for many years until it disintegrated.
It sounds just as ridiculous every time I retell the story.
The local news had told of one tornado in OK that had destroyed the attics of several homes and lofted material way way up into the atmosphere and was caught in upper level winds, with some pieces of a roofing felt and paper landing here in Springfield, MO.
As I walked down our street about 5 houses away from home I saw something tumbling down out of the increasingly gnarly looking sky. It came down a few yards away and I leaned over into the yard to grab it.
It was a piece of paper about an inch x an inch. A neatly cut piece of a page from some kind of school textbook..
The cut had been through a paragraph so it was only portions of sentences but the words were:
..and causes hot air to rise..
..the formation of tornadoes..
I honestly thought I was losing my mind.
I kept it with me for many years until it disintegrated.
It sounds just as ridiculous every time I retell the story.