Five dead as tornadoes hit Plains

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clipped from www.ldjackson.net If there is one thing you can depend on in Oklahoma, it is the weather. We are nearly to the middle of May and the storms that produce tornadoes are starting to roll across our state. Monday morning and most of the day, it was very nice in our state. There is nothing like a softball-sized hail stone or a giant funnel cloud coming at you to wake you up. Like I have already said, it is a miracle that more people were not killed or severely injured. clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Houses lie in shambles in the mobile home community of Prairie Creek Village in Slaughterville, Okla., after a tornado ripped through Monday, May 10. NORMAN, Okla. - Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines. "We saw it coming, but the best thing is my family's fine," Tegeler said. "You could just hear stuff hitting the house,"

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