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Old 06-06-2014, 11:31 AM
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Sorry about the ad but the story tells more than Youtube's 27 second version.

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Old 06-06-2014, 11:38 AM
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Jim.......Thanks for the rest of the story. I saw the YouTube clip. The still shot in this video was incredible. I don't believe I would want to experience that. Mother Nature is serious.
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Old 06-06-2014, 01:04 PM
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Wow, that's serious. Thanks for posting, Jim.
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Thanks for posting. That was amazing.
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WOW!!! That couple is lucky to be alive. Mother nature can be brutal.
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WOW!!! That couple is lucky to be alive. Mother nature can be brutal.
luckily they were in the truck and not on the ground or they wouldn't be !
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Old 06-06-2014, 07:51 PM
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eeeyow...I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that...ever!

Thanks for posting that up!
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Guess we should all have a window breaker in a modern car (and a change of drawers)
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If that happened to me, I'd probably sing the song Hasa Diga Eebowai, from the show Book of Mormon.
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