Sunday, May 16, 2010

Tornado destroys farm where "Twister" was filmed

Remember the 1996 movie Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton? Portions of that movie were shot at J. Berry Harrison Sr.'s farm in Fairfax, Oklahoma. In the movie, the actors take shelter under a bridge as the tornado spins its way along the road and passes over the bridge.

Harrison lost five barns, two houses, two silos, a horse and some farm equipment but luckily no one was hurt.

"We built all this in 50 years and it blew away in 15 minutes. It was quite a wind,” he said.

Apparently the tornado's path was very similar to the one in Twister. "The path of the tornado came exactly the same way that they made it in the movie,” he said.

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