From: Bill Lucy 

I'm in awe because Geo. says...
>
> We've had them come a lot closer than that. Had one about 5 years ago rip
> the top off a big ol oak tree in the woods about 500ft behind my house,
> twisted it like a pretzel, also about 2 years ago had one come thru a
> housing development in Middlefield, about a 3 minute drive from my house.
>
> These last ones weren't even close.

The closest I've ever been to a tornado was about 5 miles (east of where I was).
When my hometown was about destroyed in the 70s, I was on my way back to Virginia
from a Med cruise.

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