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To: TimF who wrote (1270)	4/7/2008 6:15:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1460

From 2006 Mo. teen survives tornado, confronts media storm FORDLAND, Mo. (AP) — High school senior Matt Suter has already survived being blown more than 1,300 feet by a tornado. Now he's caught up in the whirlwind of media attention. The 19-year-old from southwest Missouri appeared Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" and is also being courted by the "Today" show and talk show host David Letterman — who, producer Ryan Williams said, would likely comment on the fact that Suter took his wild ride clad only in boxer shorts. "I think Dave might be able to say something funny about that," Williams told the Springfield News-Leader. (Related Weather Guys blog post: A twist of fate) At the time, though, there was nothing funny about Suter's ordeal. On March 12, he was in his grandmother's trailer, near Fordland, when the twister bore down on them. "It got louder and louder, like 10 military jets coming at us," Suter told the newspaper. "Suddenly there was lots of pressure inside the house. The front and back doors that were both locked came off their hinges and blew out. "I looked at my grandma in the kitchen, and the walls were moving, the roof was moving, the floor was moving just like Jell-O," he said. "I could feel the whole trailer tipping over." The twister, packing 150-mph winds, ripped open the mobile home and carried Suter into the night. It flung him over a barbed wire fence 200 yards away, eventually dropping him in soft grass in an open field. He had a gash in his head from being hit by a lamp, but was otherwise intact. "Everything was gone. I could see debris from the trailers and garage everywhere," Suter said. "It finally hit me that it must have been a tornado. I figured they were dead or hurt really bad, so I took off running for my best friend's house." The National Weather Service arrived at the final distance — 1,307 feet — using global positioning satellite technology. Tom Grazulis, a Vermont-based author and tornado researcher, said that is the farthest anyone has been carried by a twister — and survived... usatoday.com