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Amazing photos are emerging this week illustrating how a tornado can create deadly missles.
The tornado that hit Joplin last Monday was the deadliest in US history. It was rated EF5, the highest on the scale, and had sustained winds of 325km/h.
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Zelda Wynn on 29/05/2011 12:05am
Doesn’t take much imagination to show what could happen to a soft human body does it! Fabulous pics are about with a slider that you can slide over an image to show before and after from same spot. AP images I think.
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