Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...tornado smashed in, the high steel pyramid doubled into an inverted-V. Randall straightened up, unhurt. Up Shinns Run, the storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...
Wednesday: STORM CHERBOURG, CITY ABLAZE
...there on top with Dolly Dawn, Al Dexter, and the rest of the "big time" bands. The fact that they have been booked by the Tic Toc and will open there next week is proof enough of their fine musicianship. No doubt they will take the place by storm and may even receive a bigger hand than the juggler who has been working there since...