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Show Easy Method of Escape From Wrath of Tornado a wild turmoil and are strangely coloredjet-black, greenish, or purple, but often mingled with steamlike grays and whites. A terrifying roar, which has been compared to ' thousands thou-sands of railroad ears crossing a bridge, may be heard at considerable distance. Most tornadoes move toward the northeast, a few toward the southeast, and the rest, with almost negligible exceptions, in some other easterly direction, di-rection, says the weather bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. Moreover, the path generally gener-ally varies but little from a straight line, so thnt the direction In which a storm Is seen to be moving Is likely to be the one that it will follow until It dies out. From these facts it follows that when a tornado is sighted several miles away a person generally lias time to escape by taking a course at right angles to its path, and the auto-mohile auto-mohile is obviously a valuable adjunct for escape, provided there is a road leading in the right direction. One positive proof that a storm Is a tornado Is the elongated funnel-shaped, funnel-shaped, or cylindrical cloud dangling from the sky toward the earth. This cloud Is not always seen, but the general gen-eral appearance of the sky In the direction di-rection of a tornado is usually very striking. The clouds are thrown into |
