Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — A Breeze in Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

A Breeze in Oklahoma.

“Wind that blows so fast you cannot see through it possibly is a new thing to science,” said a Kansas man who recently moved to Oklahoma, “but that is what I saw last year. I had seen that a storm was coming, and was hastening from the barn to the house, when I became aware that the disturbance was a cyclone. The house was still standing in plain view of myself and my wife, both of whom were running for the cellar, which was under it, when suddenly we came upon the basement of the house. The house was blown away right before our faces and eyes and yet we had not seen it go. The wind had got to blowing so fast that we could not see through it and so the house had sailed away without our being aware of it. Our three children were safe ants sound in the basement, so we didn’t feel the disappointment so keenly of losing the house. But I swear, and I’ll not recede from it, that the wind blew so fast the eye couldn’t penetrate clear air. I wish some vcientistl would explain it. —Kansas City Times.