Today I Learned About Twisters

 

Twisters or tornados are the fastest winds on earth. They can travel at speeds up to 200 miles per hour.

The spinning winds act like a giant vacuum cleaner as they move across the ground.  They pick up things from the ground and they spin it around in circles and drop it somewhere else.

Almost one thousand tornados hit the United States every year.  Twisters happen most often in flat areas with no mountains.

I think twisters are scary.  If there was a twister in my town I would hide in the basement.  In old prairie houses families would hide in their basement because it would keep them safe.  They would enter through a tiny trapdoor. Once the twister passed they could come back upstairs.