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Title: A woman flew through a tornado in a bathtub and survived
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news ... rvived/?utm_term=.1ca91e466857
Published: Jan 25, 2017
Author: Jason Samenow
Post Date: 2017-01-25 08:31:09 by A K A Stone
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Violent thunderstorms tore across the South over the weekend, killing 19 people. But in an incredible stroke of good fortune, a bathtub probably saved the life of a woman sheltering from a twister that carved a 13-mile path in east Texas, near the border with Louisiana. [Inside the deadly tornado outbreak that struck the South] The National Weather Service forecast office in Shreveport, La., filed a storm report Monday night that is a simply jaw-dropping. It describes an 800-yard-wide tornado packing winds of 130 mph that tore off the roof of a storage building on Saturday and tossed a party barge 200 yards into a grove of trees. But here is the unbelievable part: A woman inside took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub but the woman was not injured. Jason Hansford, a senior meteorologist who conducted the storm survey, said he spoke to the woman after the incident. “She heard the tornado warning come out and she took cover in the tub in her bathroom,” he said. “The only thing she remembers is that the tornado came in from the southwest across her home. At that point the whole backside of her house was sheared off. Her bath tub was ripped out of her bathroom and she ended up still in her tub in some woods near her home.”
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In other news, a woman flew through a tornado on a broomstick ... but died when a house fell on her.
"A woman flew through a tornado in a bathtub and survived"
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