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THE BABY FOUND MIRACULOUSLY UNHARMED IN THE DITCH TALKS ABOUT THE TRI-STATE TORNADO OF 1925<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t bother huddling in the dusty basement. Save your
\nbatteries for the TV remote, your candles for the wake. All those
\nstories you\u2019ve heard\u2014 how the southwest corner walls, built true
\nby honest men, will hold while all else flattens\u2014 are false.<\/p>\n

Look at the photographs. DeSoto might have been the Second
\nTemple about the time the Romans took aim. Murphysboro might
\nhave been Pompeii. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and it
\nlisteth where you are. See if you can change that, under the musty
\nsteps with your jars of jam, your trembling jugs of stale drinking
\nwater, and those calm, spacey voices from the Emergency
\nBroadcasting System telling you where to tune in your galaxy and
\nwhy.<\/p>\n

For all your splintered studs and joists, now crosshatched on the
\nbroken odds of glass that once was your lawn, there may be
\ncompensation. That sound you hear from that ditch over there<\/p>\n

may not be only the squeak of a radio snatched from the bobbling
\nclutch of another whose southwest walls have also betrayed his
\ntrust when push came to pushing harder.<\/p>\n

You might check it out, see for yourself if it isn\u2019t some sky-boy,
\ndirty but unhurt, and wailing like the hinge on a gate after the earth
\nhas been pounded into the same foul mud from which the moon
\nwas made.<\/p>\n

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