Family Miraculously Survives Tornado – Guideposts

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In the movie The Wizard of Oz, a twister comes and picks up Dorothy’s Kansas farmhouse, transporting her somewhere over the rainbow. She lands safe and unharmed; the wicked witch wasn’t so lucky.

 

As we’ve seen time and time again, however, this fantasy ignores the truth about the devastating impact of tornadoes. They leave a trail of wanton destruction wherever they go. Homes and towns are reduced to rubble, lives are lost.

 

The Ashworth family of Bertram, Texas, seemed to be the latest casualty of one of these terrifying forces of nature. Last week, their small town, 45 miles north of Austin, was hit by an EF-2-rated tornado with 125 MPH winds. The funnel cloud touched down right over the Ashworths’ home. Rescue workers expected the worst when they arrived. Where the family of four had once lived, nothing was left but a foundation.

 

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