DID THE GALE HOUSE LAND IN OSBORN, MO?
by Jim Duncan I read a somewhat morbid account of the 10 June 1938 tornado which concludes the Gale farm home was transported 150 miles northeastward from east-central Kansas to the town of Osborn (NO “e”!), Missouri. I must, regrettably, inform you that I do not believe the Gale house ended up in Osborn. My credentials to refute these findings are, as follows: 1) Up-close-and-personal knowledge of the immediate area of Osborn, Mo. from numerous chasing episodes in said locale, and 2) a year-long teaching assignment in the community immediately west of Osborn (Stewartsville) providing some long-term observation of the community, it’s residents, and architectural attributes (or lack thereof). It was alleged that the Wizard of Oz tornado was an F-2. I submit that the likelihood of an F-2 producing storm maintaining the necessary updrafts for the long-term suspension of an structure weighing well in excess of several tons was not a probable scenario. In the event that a supercell were to
