“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” said Dorothy to her dog in The Wizard of Oz.
The two had been lifted into the air, swirled around by a tornado, then softly dropped down in the magical land of Oz. But real tornadoes are not that gentle!
Tornadoes are like giant vacuum cleaners. They suck up everything in their path. They pick up cars, houses, and sometimes people, tossing them through the air. Tornadoes last for around five to ten minutes, but they do enormous damage.
