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The Great St. Louis Tornado of 1896 is estimated to have killed at least 255 people and injured more than 1,000 on May 27, 1896, as it wreaked havoc across the St. Louis, Missouri, area.
Tornado damage to human-made structures is a result of the high wind velocity and windblown debris. Tornadic winds have been measured in excess of 300 mph (480 km/h). Tornadoes are a serious hazard to life and limb. As such, people in tornado-prone areas often adopt plans of action in case a tornado approaches.
Yin and yang (English: / j ɪ n /, / j æ ŋ /), also yinyang [1] [2] or yin-yang, [3] [2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which ...
Abe no Seimei, a famous onmyōji. Onmyōdō (陰陽道, also In'yōdō, lit. ' The Way of Yin and Yang ') is a technique that uses knowledge of astronomy and calendars to divine good fortune in terms of date, time, direction and general personal affairs, originating from the philosophy of the yin-yang and the five elements.
The tornado warnings Thursday night came just over two weeks after Ohio was hit by nine tornadoes in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 28, seven of which struck central Ohio.
Near Claytonville, the tornado cut a continuous, 20-mile-long (32 km), 300-to-400-yard-wide (270 to 370 m) path. Rural losses reached $445,000, and 70 cattle were killed or injured. In southeastern Silverton, the tornado killed a 14-year-old girl and destroyed eight homes.
The GoFundMe currently had raised over $20,000 by Tuesday morning. This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Tennessee tornado victim includes Florida woman killed in visit to son ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.