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Minnesota Family Blames Poor Construction, Not Tornado, for Death
Midwest News • January 13, 2009
The family of a 10-year-old girl who died in a 2006 tornado in Rogers is blaming a homebuilder for the girl's death.
In a wrongful death lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court, the family of ...
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| Case settled out of court | Long Shot | Jan 23, 2009, 11:39 am |
| What's this world coming to | Herewe Goagain | Jan 23, 2009, 11:05 am |
| Ya right... | johnny o. | Jan 16, 2009, 5:05 pm |
| As reported in the news: | Long Shot | Jan 13, 2009, 2:48 pm |
| Here's your sign | Ha! | Jan 13, 2009, 1:41 pm |
| RE: Getting Rediculous with Lawsuits | Safety guy | Jan 13, 2009, 12:58 pm |
| what a joke | Compman | Jan 13, 2009, 12:32 pm |
| RE: Thank goodness | Mary | Jan 13, 2009, 12:19 pm |
| Thank goodness | GOD | Jan 13, 2009, 12:17 pm |
| Getting Rediculous with Lawsuits | Hannah Katz | Jan 13, 2009, 10:59 am |
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Subject: Here's your sign
This tornado hit rogers on September 16th 2006. It was a category F2 (Fujita scale) tornado,had a width of 100 yards and travelled 7 miles in its roughly 10 minute lifespan. The young girl was killed 3 minutes into the tornado's development which was prior to the local weather service even having enough data to issue a tornado warning. In other words this was a very rapid developing tornado that gave no advance warning.
A F2 tornado as described by the Fujita Scale is a Significant tornado with winds of 113-157 mph causing considerable damage. "Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars pushed over; large trees snapped or uprooted; light object missiles generated."
http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm
But yeah, it was the home builders fault.