Deadly tornado by Zuzana Fabcinova

Year 2008, a particularly deadly year for tornadoes, has not ended yet. It has already brought 118 deaths connected with tornadoes, most recent of them less than a week ago. A heavy storm accompanied by hail and twisters roared through Midwest region in the USA on Wednesday, hitting Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa, and showed its dangerousness. Unfortunately, a boy scout campsite in Iowa, which stood in the way of the storm, had absolutely no chance to resist. The tornado apparently wanted to measure its strength with young boys, who were helpless against a rival like that. Without any warning, it was impossible to fight it. When the tornado hit the cabin where scouts sought shelter against rage of severe weather, four teen-aged boys were killed, while many others were more or less seriously injured.Highly admirable thing about this all is the fact, that many boys, right after the accident, didn't panic at all and immediately started to help their mates and tried to rescue them. Having clear, calm head definitely took much effort in a situation like that and only the best could do so. I can't imagine myself being able to keep cool and start to act or even think about what happened. Those little guys, those little heroes proved that they are not selfish or egoistic at all, as they didn't try to save their own lives before their friends'.Fate of mentioned four boys is terrible loss for their families along with other people who new them. If they only had a half of their friend-scouts' courage, we have just lost four fantastic young man, who surely had great lives before them.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080612/us_nm/usa_tornado_midwest_dc;_ylt=AoOg11uZqJX76Ej_kB2WFtms0NUE

by Zuzana Fabcinova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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