Deadly Twisters, Hail Hit Upper Plains
Deadly Storms Bring Twisters, Grapefruit-Size Hail to Northern Plains: 'This Is Wicked'
In this photo provided by the Lake Region Life, A tornado is seen Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006, near Waterville, Minn. Severe thunderstorms moved through southern Minnesota late Thursday, spawning tornadoes that damaged buildings, twisted trees off their trunks and downed power lines over a wide area. East of St. Peter in Le Sueur County, the National Weather Service said a trained spotter reported a farmhouse destroyed three miles north of Elysian and major damage to the second floor of a home in Waterville. (AP Photo/Lake Region Life, Jay Schneider)
NICOLLET, Minn. (AP) - Deadly storms swept across the northern Plains, bringing tornadoes that ripped roofs off houses and hail that smashed car windshields.
In Missouri, most of the Jefferson City area lost power for about two hours as the storms continued Friday.
A day earlier, a man died after a tornado hit his home in Minnesota, while in Wisconsin, lightning apparently struck a woman as she left a supermarket. Hundreds of cows were killed or were on the loose.
Twisters, heavy rain and hail as big as grapefruit also struck the Dakotas, stripping trees of their leaves, and power was knocked out around the region.
Also Thursday, a flash flood in New Mexico killed a man and a boy driving on a tribal road in New Mexico.
In Nicollet County, Minn., a tornado ripped roofs, fronts or sides from farm homes along a 12-mile stretch of highway between Nicollet and St. Peter. Utility poles lay along the road, and some treetops were sheared off.
Mary Rahm, 22, saw the tornado dip down twice from the clouds before it hit the ground. That's when she grabbed her newborn baby and ducked under a desk.
"My 5-week-old son just made it through his first tornado," Rahm said. "This is wicked."
A tornado that hit a home in nearby Kasota killed a 90-year-old man, said Tom Douherty, chief deputy in the Le Sueur County Sheriff's Office.
"We have areas that you can't believe a house was there. Crops - you wouldn't even know there was a crop there. Cornfields - there's nothing left," he said Friday.
Close to two dozen residents were treated at hospitals for broken bones and other non-life-threatening injuries, Le Sueur County spokeswoman Roxy Traxler.
Hundreds of dairy cattle were killed or running free, causing car accidents in the area.
An earlier line of thunderstorms dropped hail as large as softballs in several communities, smashing the windshield of a New Prague fire truck. In Northfield, hail damage to 11 police squad cars forced officers to borrow vehicles from the sheriff's office.
At least a half-dozen tornadoes raked across central South Dakota, destroying farm homes and damaging power lines.
Jeff Miller said the storm looked like a blanket as he watched from his mother's home near Wolsey.
"I was worried about whether I was going to be here today," Miller said Friday, surveying the debris.
"That used to be a barn," he said.
Neighbor Bill Timm lost nine buildings, including two houses.
"They're not flattened, they're gone," said Kristi Brakke, Timm's sister.
North Dakota had heavy rain, funnel clouds, and grapefruit-sized hail.
"It didn't really hail all that much, but what it did hail was big," Stanton City Auditor Rick Honeyman said.
In Wisconsin, a 43-year-old woman was knocked to the ground while carrying an umbrella and groceries through a parking lot in Waukesha County.
"I don't remember hearing thunder or seeing lightning or anything," Kelly Owen told WISN-TV in Milwaukee. "It's the weirdest sensation."
Lightning also killed a dozen cows on a farm in Marshall, and strikes were suspected of starting fires at a seniors' apartment complex in Kenosha and a home in Cottage Grove home.
Lightning was suspected of knocking out electricity feeder lines that left about 30,000 homes and businesses in Jefferson City, Mo., without power just as people headed into work and school.
More rain was expected Friday in Michigan and the upper Mississippi Valley southwest to Kansas and Oklahoma.
In New Mexico, heavy rains closed Interstate 40 for more than an hour, and a man and boy died when their car was swept away as they tried to drive across a ditch east of Gallop.
They were the only people in the car, Navajo Nation Police Commander Johnny Johnson said.
And in New York, the city was under a rare tornado warning for about a half-hour Friday. No tornado touched down, the National Weather Service said.
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16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. REVELATION 16:16-21
The weight of a talent is around 80(+) pounds and although these were the size of grapefruits their deadly potential is shown, no house or residence can stand up to this type of bombardment from the ALMIGHTY. In China, about the year 1997, there were hail showers recorded with the hail measuring to the size of basketballs and the average weight was 81 lbs., it's on it's way America whether you want it or not for God has a controversy with the USA and the evil it has spread from nation to nation and for sacrificing their children to the flames of Molech. Do you think that HE will use Christian leaders to warn you ( what have they been doing ) look now to the news media, movies, television, radio, are they not all crying ARMAGEDDON?
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. MATTHEW 11:12-17
The excuse used by many and the excuse which the Bible states will come along in the latter days is that:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ll PETER 3:2-9
You have heard these people and this excuse,"I've heard this all my life and my parents quoted it and so did their parents, but nothing has changed and nothing will all things are like they were years and years ago for the past 2 to 3000 years, it's nothing more than fear mongering."
THESE ARE SCOFFERS THE DIFFERENCE IS THEIR PARENTS NEVER STATED THIS DEBATE AS DO THEY, THEIR PARENTS AFFIRMED CHRIST WAS COMING SOON AND GOD'S WRATH WAS SOON TO APPEAR, THEY DID NOT SAY "WE'VE HEARD THIS ALL OF OUR LIVES"....THIS IS THE BEGINNING STATEMENT OF THE SCOFFERS WHO DENY THE RETURN OF CHRIST AND THE PURSUING ARMAGEDDON. PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD O'EARTH FOR JUDGEMENT COMES IN THE MORNING.
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