Fierce Storms Kill 4 in Oklahoma

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There’s no escaping the wicked weather, and the good people of Oklahoma will tell you that, as powerful storms ripped through their state yesterday.

(Newser) Fierce thunderstorms with strong winds tore through Oklahoma, killing a truck driver and a family whose mobile home was flipped into a creek. One storm rolled in so fast, a couple in Nowata County had no time to reach a storm shelter on their property before wind picked up their mobile home, carried it about 100 yards and dropped the wreckage into a creek, sheriff’s deputy Rick Harper said today. The mobile home “basically disintegrated,” he said, and the couple and their grandchild were killed. Their bodies were found in the water after a two-hour search.

Missouri truck driver Jimmy King, 70, also was killed when wind flipped his semi onto a cement barrier wall, trapping him inside for nearly three hours near Afton in Ottawa County. In other storm news, a tornado swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood in New York City today, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon. Firefighters were still assessing the damage, but no serious injuries were reported and the area affected by the storm appeared small.

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