Hurricanes are universally feared as destructive and deadly, but occasionally they have been known to do some fairly unusual stuff. The following are some documented incidents involving these common but still-misunderstood phenomena:
1915: Five horses were picked up in a Kansas tornado. They were found a quarter-mile away, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
1955: A 9-year-old in South Dakota was riding her horse when a tornado struck her farm. She and her pony were plucked from the ground and were sent flying into another valley. According to reports, the girl’s mother actually saw her daughter airborne. The girl and the pony were dropped over 1,000 feet away, unharmed.
1962: An electrician jumped out of his truck moments before it was lifted by a tornado outside Oklahoma City. It was later found 20 miles away, but full of McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers, a Grammy Award and a rhino turd.
1968: An F4 hurricane convinced an elderly woman in South Carolina that it was her nephew. She let it stay in her guest room for four nights before she realized it was actually a hurricane, but by then it had ruined most of her carpeting and eaten two entire bags of Funyuns.
1973: Five horses were picked up in a Kansas tornado. They were found a quarter-mile away, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
1986: Two security guards at the Flashdance Leg Warmer Factory in Lauper, IL were lifted into the air by a hurricane. While one of them was killed and horrifically dismembered by all the debris battering his twisted shell of a body, the other one just got a sprained ankle! Gee willikers!
1989: Actor Willie Aames... Nah, I don't want to make fun of him. He's been through enough.
1991: Five horses were picked up in a Kansas tornado. They were found a quarter-mile away near a Costco, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
1996: 10 year old Jennie Samsa of Columbia, South Carolina was halfway through watching a 7-hour marathon of "Freakazoid" reruns when Hurricane Sergio tore the shit out of those plans, boy.
2014: Five horses will have been picked up in a Kansas tornado. They will have been found a quarter-mile away, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
1973: Five horses were picked up in a Kansas tornado. They were found a quarter-mile away, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
1986: Two security guards at the Flashdance Leg Warmer Factory in Lauper, IL were lifted into the air by a hurricane. While one of them was killed and horrifically dismembered by all the debris battering his twisted shell of a body, the other one just got a sprained ankle! Gee willikers!
1989: Actor Willie Aames... Nah, I don't want to make fun of him. He's been through enough.
1996: 10 year old Jennie Samsa of Columbia, South Carolina was halfway through watching a 7-hour marathon of "Freakazoid" reruns when Hurricane Sergio tore the shit out of those plans, boy.
2014: Five horses will have been picked up in a Kansas tornado. They will have been found a quarter-mile away, unhurt and still hitched to the same rail.
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