Tornado Alley start delayed due to wet Doomben track

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- Tornado Alley start delayed due to wet Doomben track
- Holly Marks 1st Anniversary Of Tornado
- Photo of tornado near Evansville stumps us

Tornado Alley start delayed due to wet Doomben track
NEWS.com.au – Mar 29, 2008
article-tools –> By. Tornado Alley would have run favourite for the $75,000 Chief De Beers Quality (1110m) but Thexton rates him a "duffer" in the wet. "He is by Flying Spur and the breed are not wet track performers in general," Thexton said. "If the track is on the worse side of dead he will not be going around. "
The Jackal’s trainer Paul St Vincent arrived in Brisbane by float yesterday to find a wet track at Doomben but will probably start. "We are here now but he is a duffer in the wet.

Holly Marks 1st Anniversary Of Tornado
cbs4denver.com – Mar 29, 2008
“It’s been a different kind of year,” Mayor Jerry Smith said. “Hopefully it’s the only kind of year like that, that we’ll experience. ” Rosemary Rosales, 28, died from her injuries in the tornado. Delores Burns, 76, died about a month later from her injuries. The governor’s office said 17 new homes have been built or are under construction and another 22 are being repaired. Technology limitations didn’t allow the National Weather Service to issue a tornado warning last year. There are now new warning sirens and a new weather alert system.

Photo of tornado near Evansville stumps us
courierpress.com – Mar 29, 2008
Generally, our photograph file is a hodgepodge. It’s frustrating to become relieved at finding the envelope with the proper label, only to find that it contains nothing. Our librarian, Roseann Derk, came across a misfiled photograph of a tornado. It looks as if it will hit a building. There is a car on the road, and if it were I in that car, I’d be gunning the accelerator. Unfortunately, the photo’s label was missing; otherwise we’d try to track down the photographer who made it. The picture was passed around the office, then around the building, everyone offering his suggestion of where the photograph was taken.

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