Is there double jeopardy in tornado strikes?
Since tornadoes are relatively rare, at least in these regions that you might have to wait centuries for one to strike any given point, you would figure that once you have been hit by a tornado, it would be clear sailing from then on out, right? Sure, but there are always exceptions. Statistics alone can not protect you. When Your Number Is Up Department: on 2 December 1982 a Missouri man was injured when his home was flattened by a tornado. He moved into a trailer home for temporary shelter – and three weeks later was killed when a second tornado came through town. Right Place at the Wrong Time Department: a house in Collinsville, IL was destroyed by a tornado on 18 May 1883. The rebuilt structure was hit again on 30 March 1938. The possibility of a building being struck by a tornado is rare, typically less than once per thousand years. But one church in Guy, Arkansas has been damaged by twisters three times during the last century. Statistically, you will have to wait hundreds of yea