A large tornado skipped through several northern Colorado towns yesterday, destroying dozens of homes, flipping tractor-trailers and an entire train of freight cars, and killing at least one person. The National Weather Service said the tornado touched down just before noon near Platteville, about 80 kilometres north of Denver. Over the next hour, it moved northward past several towns along a 56-kilometre track toward Wyoming. Nine people were hospitalized with various injuries at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. A frightened camper who tried to outrun the storm in an RV was killed. Many people have lost everything, there animals, campers and there homes.
"It passed right over us like a big, white monster," said Thomas Coupe, 87.
The tornado overturned 15 railroad cars and destroyed a lumber car on the Great Western Railway of Colorado. In Southern California, area residents flooded TV stations with pictures and video of funnel clouds and at least one tornado on the ground. The storm unleashed mudslides in wildfire-scarred canyons and dusted mountains and even low-lying communities with snow and hail.
"It passed right over us like a big, white monster," said Thomas Coupe, 87.
The tornado overturned 15 railroad cars and destroyed a lumber car on the Great Western Railway of Colorado. In Southern California, area residents flooded TV stations with pictures and video of funnel clouds and at least one tornado on the ground. The storm unleashed mudslides in wildfire-scarred canyons and dusted mountains and even low-lying communities with snow and hail.
This is just a Natural Accident due to most likely the weather conditions in Colorado. I cant really make an opinion on this, but I want to say whenever there is a tornado make sure you try and hide somewhere low to the ground in a ditch or something. Do not do what the one man did who went to hide in his RV, that was just stupid and now look what happened hes dead. So just make sure you know what to do in these types of situations.
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