Environmental Graffiti takes a look at persons and objects which have been transported by tornadoes over the years. Yet another original offbeat story by Environment Graffiti.

“Fordland, Missouri. March 12, 2006. Night. The wind outside the trailer grew louder and louder, like the sound of fighter jets closing in. Next thing, the locked front and back doors of the mobile home were blown off their hinges. Everything was wobbling – the floor, the walls, the ceiling – but nothing could prepare Matt Suter for what was about to happen. Seconds later, the tornado ripped the home apart and lifted the 19-year old high school senior into its jaws.

Tornado, Missouri, 2006. Suter was carried nearly a quarter of a mile by the twister’s raging 150 mph winds. He was hurled over a barbed wire fence 200 yards from his grandmother’s shattered trailer and finally dropped in the soft grass of an open field. Incredibly, his injuries were limited to a wound on his head from where he was hit by a heavy lamp. Meteorologists calculated that he had been blown 1,307 feet – the longest recorded distance anyone has been transported by a tornado and survived.”

Read the whole article in Environmental Graffiti.