8.
“One spring afternoon in about 2013, there had been tornadoes in Oklahoma in the morning. Being in SW MO, I was looking towards the skies for any exciting looking clouds.”
“The local news had spoken of one tornado in OK that had destroyed the attics of several homes and lofted material way up into the atmosphere which was caught in upper level winds. Some of the pieces of roofing and paper were landing here in Springfield, MO.
As I walked down our street, about five houses away from home, I saw something tumbling down out of the increasingly gnarly looking sky. It came down a few yards away and I leaned over into the yard to grab it.
It was a piece of paper about an inch by an inch. A neatly cut piece of a page from some kind of school textbook. The cut had been through a paragraph so it was only portions of sentences, but the words were: “and causes hot air to rise… the formation of tornadoes…” I honestly thought I was losing my mind. I kept it with me for many years until it disintegrated. It sounds just as ridiculous every time I retell the story.”
