A tornado is a rotating 1 of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most 2 has winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
Tornadoes can 3 cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street or 4 in the next town. They can take the fur5 the back of a cat. They destroy houses, but 6 the furniture inside exactly where it was.
7 , there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, 8 about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries. The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925, 9 three US states. By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been 10 .
11 are strong tropical storms. They cause huge waves, heavy rain and12 and usually hit the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine. The13 hurricane of all time occurred in 1,900. The disaster killed 6,000 people in a 14 of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings.
Charles Coghlan, an Irish actor, 15 to New York and became famous there. Then he moved to Galveston, 16 he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane17 . The cemetery where he was 18 was destroyed by the hurricane and his coffin19 in the sea. Eight years later, the coffin was found by fishermen in the east of Canada. The Gulf Stream had 20 it 3,000 kilometers up the eastern US coast to Canada. Coghlan traveled to Canada after he had been buried in Texas!
