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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on May 18, 2003. The length of the article is 952 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Radiografia de un tornado: susceptibles de abatirse en rafagas, los tornados son un fenomeno complejo y dificilmente previsible. Anualmente se producen unos mil tornados que causan en promedio la muerte a 80 personas y dejan 300 millones de dolares en danos. Fuerza aterradora. (La peor temporada de su historia).
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 18, 2003
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 9Issue: 533Page: 14(1)

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This digital document is an article from Contenido, published by Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 767 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Los espeluznantes tours para cazar tornados.(TT: The horrifying tours to chase tornados.)(Artculo Breve)
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 48

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 30607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. periodically upgrades and tests its natural disaster emergency programs. The programs, which include tornado reaction drills and employee emergency training, are designed to minimize employee injuries as well as structural damage to the company's offices. The programs also involve the designation of tornado spotters, first-aid training and investments on emergency communication devices.

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Title: Preparing for a twist of fate. (tornadoes; Owens-Corning FiberglasCorp.)(includes related article)
Author: Arthur F. Brubaker
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1996
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: v40Issue: n5Page: p42(4)

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This digital document is an article from Capper's, published by Ogden Publications, Inc. on March 15, 2005. The length of the article is 372 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Family spared by destructive tornado.(Heart of the Home)(Brief Article)
Publication: Capper's (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2005
Publisher: Ogden Publications, Inc.
Volume: 127Issue: 6Page: 24(1)

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Get the inside scoop on wild weather!Travel along with tornado chasers as they witness the fury of a tornado, or watch the power of a hurricane unfold.Gain insight into thunderstorms, lightning, blizzards, hail, floods, droughts, twisters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and more. Play virtual tornado readiness and lightning safety games. Learn what causes storms and how the effects of storms can cost billions of dollars.See awesome satellite images of weather phenomena. ... Read more

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this book could save your life when a tornadoes striks
this tells you what kind of damage and death tornadoes can cause. the people that can read this book is just about anyone. a tornadoes is a vortex that is a bunch of wind and clouds that can go about 300 mph and it can also throw things up to a mile far. yes you should read this book because you will know what to do and not what to do.
kenny d.

dangerous tornadoes
this of tornadoes isnt like any other one because this book tells you what they can do to your home,you,your family, your valued things such as home, things handed down to you in the past. Another thing that this book talks about is how you can keep your family safe and you, tornadoes tells you where to go if your outside and not around a home. the main purpose of this book is tornadoes can and will kill you, and destroy everthing that you own. a good audience for this book is a person that is in to weather storms, likes to research on big diasters. i would recommend this book to you because you might learn how to save your family and yourself.
CJ PICKETT

Tornadoes (Great Disasters)
This book is a very informative book. Any person can read this book because it pertains to every age group and every type of person. Not very many people will experience the wrath of a tornado, but if you are not prepared for one, and one happens to touch down, you will be out of luck. This book tells, in great detail, how a tornado is formed, where it is formed, and what to do when a tornado is formed. This book also goes into detail about how storm trackers risk their lives in order to better understand tornadoes so they can keep us safe. This book has different views about tornadoes, telling how some people see it as a beautiful dancing cloud, but also tells how other people look at the aftermath of the storm, and how a tornado's high winds can demolish a whole town in a matter of minutes. I also like this book because it tells how strong a tornado is, for example, a tornado can lift a huge two story house, and toss it three miles from it's original spot. This book makes me marvel at how such a harmless looking cloud can, and is, one of the most deadly storms on the face of the earth. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone, especially if you are hoping to broaden your knowledge of tornadoes. This book is worth reading.

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Makes you want to give your own children extra big kisses
I read Dale's book as soon as I could get it. Knowing him, his wife and children, I wanted to read what I was afraid to ask even a friend like Dale - "How do you survive losing a child?" Winds of Fury is Dale's version of the events around a tragic tornado in which many members of his wife's church died, including their four-year-old daughter. His story is painful, but filled with grace and hope. In places he is brutally honest, and in other places brutally funny. After I finished (which wasn't long because I couldn't put it down), I was thankful to God for giving me two beautiful children. I recall going into their rooms while they were asleep and giving them an extra kiss, painfully aware that Dale and Kelly could never do that for Hannah again. I was also filled with hope from reading the book. Dale reminded me that truly nothing can separate us from the love of God.

A touching memoir of terrible loss and gradual healing.

No one in northeast Alabama will ever forget Palm Sunday 1994. When deadly tornadoes ripped through northern Calhoun County, killing nearly two dozen people, a spring Sunday dedicated to beginning the holiest week of the Christian year became instead a stormy day of pain and loss. And yet, as the Rev. Dale Clem's memoir "Winds of Fury, Circles of Grace" demonstrates, the terrifying storms could not blow away the faith and devotion that would testify in no uncertain terms to a love and spirit that transcends disaster and death.

As the Rev. Kelly Clem led Palm Sunday services, including a children's pageant in which their 4-year-old daughter Hannah took part, Dale Clem was hundreds of miles away, leading a youth group on a spring break service trip to Oklahoma. The first report Clem received was sketchy, a message received from a cell phone call. "There's been a tornado," he was told. "It hit your wife's church... Kelly is in the hospital, the girls are okay; you need to call home." In the time it took for him to find his wife - interminable time - fear grew. No one had news about Hannah. Finally he was able to speak to Kelly, who told him: "Hannah is dead."

It was the beginning of a long day, a long week - a long year - of tears and mourning. "Winds of Fury, Circles of Grace" chronicles that year with touching honesty, neither shying away from sorrow nor forgetting joy. Clem captures the grief of a small congregation in a small town, where relationships are strengthened both by proximity and faith. He recounts unpleasant moments, such as hurtful and hateful notes received from zealots equating Kelly's ministry and the priesthood of women to Sodom and Gomorrah. And he shares many happy memories of Hannah - "Have I ever told you that I love you?" he would ask Hannah and her younger sister Sarah, and Hannah would giggle, "Oh, Daddy, you tell me that all the time."

The spirit of Hannah Clem is ever-present, dancing through these pages as she did through her life on earth, helping her father tell his tale of loss and redemption. Clem intersperses the chronological account of that Holy Week in 1994 - a week in which the message of death and resurrection resonated among the Piedmont hills - with good basic advice on confronting and accepting grief and healing. He begins this task with a quote from T.S. Eliot: "I said to my soul, be still, and wait.../So the darkness shall be the light,/and the stillness the dancing." He speaks to everyone who has known the darkness of death - encouraging by example, unafraid to recount his moments of weakness and weeping and glad to witness to a faith in life and in Christ which ultimately led both Clems through the valleys and shadows of the first year to a place of new hope and understanding. ... Read more