Life imitates Oz!

Posted: 6/9/08 at 6:47pm

On Saturday, when a tornado swept through Richton Park, Chase was hanging out the backyard of Sandra Holmes' house. That is, until the tornado picked him up and took him on the ride of his life.

"People started coming up and saying 'we saw your dog in flight,'" said Holmes, Chase's owner.

Neighbor Tatyiana Smith saw it. "The dog was in the air, he was going around like he was pulled out of the ground," Smith said.

Luckily, Chase didn't get whisked away to the magical land of Oz. Instead, residents found him more than a block away in the woods, dazed and shocked, but alive.


They HAVE to change his name!

[mauriposa]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:07pm

Craaaazy. And stupid.

My town was in the tornado warning area. The first thing we did was make sure the dog was in the house.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:09pm

I was hoping you meant the other Oz...

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 7:13pm

I'm glad he didn't mean the other Oz.

Freaky story! I've heard about people going for a ride in a tornado.

I was in a tornado myself in Kansas, in the early '80s. I was with a friend pulling into his driveway in the late afternoon when it hit. The car was shaken and lifted slightly off the ground with us in it. I saw a picnic table fly by, and when I tried to get out of the car, the back windshield shattered from the pressure change.

Fun times.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:01pm

Incidentally, 50 years ago today a tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts. About 100 people died.

Posted: 6/9/08 at 8:42pm

I saw a tornado when I was in High school- a bunch of friends were heading out one night and we saw one up ahead- it crossed the highway ahead of us and then went up into the clouds. We were all dumbstruck!

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/9/08 at 9:30pm

I lived through this one. My best friends house was heavily damaged, and their barn completely blown away...nothing but splinters was left. The road in front of their home had been oiled earlier in the day...and their house was completely covered with road oil by the time the tornado had passed. I do remember my Dad running out into the yard during the storm that preceded it to grab a hail-stone, it was about the size of a soft-ball. The damage in the path was incredible...one sight I won't ever forget is two dead cows...high in the tops of trees that had been totally stripped of their leaves. Pretty nasty.



Ruskin Heights Tornado

Updated On: 6/9/08 at 09:30 PM