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堪薩斯州的龍捲風
堪薩斯以許多東西聞名於世，如：小麥、向日蔡
...及龍捲風！以堪薩斯州為背景，最著名的龍捲風故事是那一個？
法蘭克巴姆(L.
Frank Baum)所寫的「綠野仙蹤」(The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz)，在講述一個名叫桃樂絲(Dorothy)的女孩，被堪薩斯州的龍捲風捲走，並降落在想像中的奧茲國。這個故事被改編成舞台劇，也曾被拍成電影。他可能看過電影的版本，片中的桃樂絲是由茱迪嘉蘭(Judy
Garland)飾演。
龍捲風是暴風的一種，它快速旋轉的風向會形成一個漏斗狀的雲霧，又名「旋風」；它們自大雷雨的雲端向下延伸，而龍捲風的旋轉風速，時常達時速300英里！龍捲風常會快速的掃過任一地區，但卻會造成嚴重的損壞。世上有許多驚人的龍捲風報告。其中一個例子是，一間學校內有85名學生的校舍被龍捲風拆毀，被帶至離原校址400多英尺遠的地方，所幸無人傷亡。另一個例子則為，五節鐵路車廂，每節重達70噸，被龍捲風自鐵軌上抬起。
Kansas is known for many things -- wheat, sunflowers ... and tornadoes! What famous story set in Kansas features a tornado?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, tells the story of Dorothy, who gets caught in a Kansas tornado and lands in the imaginary land of Oz. This story has been dramatized on stage and film. You might have seen the movie version, which stars Judy Garland as Dorothy.
Tornadoes are storms with rapidly rotating winds that form a funnel cloud. Also known as "twisters," they extend downward from the huge clouds of a severe thunderstorm. The winds that rotate within a tornado usually reach a speed of almost 300 miles per hour! A tornado often sweeps through an area quickly, but it can cause considerable destruction. There have been a number of remarkable reports of tornadoes. In one instance, a schoolhouse was demolished while the 85 students originally inside it were carried more than 400 feet with none killed. There was also a case of five railway coaches, each weighing 70 tons, lifted from their tracks.
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