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Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins).The book is a semi-fictionalized account of the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, which produced seven tornadoes (including three that rotated anti-cyclonically) in and around Grand Island, Nebraska, on the evening of June 3, 1980, killing five ...
The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, also known as The Night of the Twisters, was a tornado outbreak that produced a series of destructive tornadoes that affected the city of Grand Island, Nebraska, on Tuesday, June 3, 1980. Seven tornadoes touched down in or near the city that night, killing five people and injuring 200.
Flipped was filmed in Ann Arbor, Manchester, and Saline, all located in Michigan. As part of the set, a temporary house was built on the Thurston Nature Area prairie. A few scenes were filmed in the small downtown area of Manchester, Michigan on July 27. The events take place in 1957–1963 in the screenplay instead of 1994–2000, as in the book.
Mike Hollingshead is an American professional storm chaser, photographer and videographer from Blair, Nebraska. [1] His work has appeared on the cover of National Geographic . [ 2 ] It was also featured in the films Take Shelter , The Fifth Estate and the series finale of Dexter .
It issued tornado watches for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Large hail also was possible. Some schools canceled proms because of the forecasts.
By Josh Funk PILGER, Neb. (AP) -- Residents of Pilger braced for a massive cleanup after a storm with dual tornadoes tore through their tiny northeast Nebraska town, killing a 5-year-old and ...
Flipped (2001) – adapted as the 2010 feature film Flipped; Swear to Howdy (2003) Runaway (2006), based on a character introduced in the Sammy Keyes series – Lone Star Book List, 2007–08 [10] Confessions of a Serial Kisser (2008) The Running Dream (2011) – Lone Star Book List, 2011 [10] Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, 2013
Books-A-Million Tornado Relief Campaign Raises over $86,000 for the Salvation Army BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Books-A-Million, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: BAMM) today announced that it has collected ...