THE KING OF TERROR COMES TO SALT LAKE CITY?
August 11, 1999, 12:47 p.m.
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| A funnel cloud moves across the sky near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1999. At least four people were killed and more than 100 were injured early Wednesday afternoon when a sudden tornado touched down in the downtown Salt Lake City area, causing wide- spread damage.(AP Photo/Daniel Wright) |
About 15 minutes ago CNN TV started reporting a disaster in Salt Lake City.
A large tornado ran right through the city, a very unusal event. Hundreds of people were in a very large tent that was set up for an outdoor recreation show. The tent was torn down. They do not know yet how many people were hurt or killed.
The tent was at the Delta Center, at South Temple and 300 West.
The winds may have reached 120 miles per hour. Hailstones 1 1/2 inches in diameter fell before the tornado hit. The tornado is heading into a sandy area.
Some damaged telephone or power poles were shown. One of them was broken, to form a "Christian Cross" shape, that dangled from the wires.
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Note the symbolic event here which took place on 8-11-99 at approximately 11:00 a.m Salt Lake City time.
The tornado came down into a Religious City
The tornado blocked out the sun.
The tornado overturned the merchants tables in the tents at Temple and 300 Sts.
The merchants were there for the RE-CREATION market.
The Tabernacle of the Jews was originally the tent used for
worshipping God. The tornado came in the Tabernacle area of the city of Salt Lake City. It later became Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem.
The DELTA (triangle) Center where the tornado came down is home to the Salt Lake City Jazz Basketball team.
There is visual spiritual symbology with the layout of the basketball court .
Both the Mormon Religion and Jazz Music are uniquely US originated.
In the Keys of Enoch, it is stated that in the US will be the New JerUSAlem, and the Mormons also preach this.
The King of Terror was said to be Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ overturned the merchants tables in the Temple.
So, was the tornado... the whirlwind.... the widening gyre... the symbol for Jesus Christ?
Here is the poem, the Second Coming by Yeats.
http://obi.std.com/obi/William.Butler.Yeats/Yeats/TheSecondComing
THE SECOND COMING
By William Butler Yeats
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of i{Spiritus Mundi}
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at laSt,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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| (Reuters) - A tornado that came out of nowhere ripped through downtown
Salt Lake City Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 40 others as it
blew out windows, toppled trees and hurled debris through the air, officials
said. Parts of the downtown area were devastated by the lunch hour funnel
cloud packing swirling winds of up to 112 miles per hour. The twister left
cars damaged, telephone booths knocked over, power lines downed, broken glass
strewn about and traffic lights on the blink. A construction crane broke
in half and a motorcycle ended up lodged in a tree, witnesses said. More...
(Left) A funnel cloud moves across the sky near the University of Utah in
Salt Lake City.
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Tornado Rips Through Downtown Salt Lake City By James Nelson SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A tornado that came out of nowhere ripped through downtown Salt Lake City Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 40 others as it blew out windows, toppled trees and hurled debris through the air, officials said. Parts of the downtown area were devastated by the lunch hour funnel cloud packing swirling winds of up to 112 miles per hour. The twister left cars damaged, telephone booths knocked over, power lines downed, broken glass strewn about and traffic lights on the blink. A construction crane broke in half and a motorcycle ended up lodged in a tree, witnesses said. Early local television reports said four people had died, but Mayor Deedee Corradini told reporters officials had only been able to confirm one dead. ``In all my years in Salt Lake City I've never seen anything like it,'' the mayor said after touring the area. Sgt. Craig Gleason of the Salt Lake City Police Department said 40 people had been injured and there were others with minor scrapes and bruises who did not seek medical attention. He said police feared fatalities would mount given the extensive damage. President Clinton said federal help would be on the way. ''The burden of recovery will be heavy, but it is a burden that the people of Salt Lake City need not carry alone,'' the president said in a statement from Washington Clinton said Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were already on the ground and more were on the way to help local officials cope with the disaster. The tornado seemed to come out of nowhere and without warning. The last twister of this magnitude was recorded in 1968 and Wednesday's death was the first on record in Utah from a tornado, a local meteorologist said. While 90 percent of the world's tornadoes strike the continental United States, most hit east of the Rocky Mountains. Nevertheless, tornadoes can and do occur in any of the contiguous 48 U.S. states. The tornado was reported to be an ``F1,'' which means winds were between 70 and 112 miles an hour. A tornado of that magnitude can rip roofs off houses. The massive tornado that leveled parts of Oklahoma earlier this year was rated as possibly an ``F5,'' with winds at 261 to 318 miles per hour. Gov. Mike Leavitt viewed the ravaged area by helicopter. ''Within five minutes of the time of the tornado people were coming from their homes as though emerging from bomb shelters -- trees uprooted, power lines swinging,'' he said. The Delta Center, home of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team, sustained extensive damage. Officials said they did not know if a women's professional basketball game scheduled for Friday would be played. A crane at a site where a 21,000-seat assembly building was being constructed for the Mormon Church cracked in half and two workers at the building were injured, said David Fewster, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But the historic Mormon Church, around which Salt Lake City was built, was untouched. A nurse who was at a stoplight when the tornado hit said she saw the funnel cloud descend on the downtown area. ``The wind kicked up and the hail started and I recognized it as a tornado. It's like in the movies with the debris circling around,'' Pat Kruger said. ``I just prayed.''
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| A rare tornado swept through downtown Salt Lake City Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1999 knocking an ice truck onto a Chevy Suburban next to a tented retailers convention, far right, that was shredded. The roofs of the nearby Delta Center and the Salt Palace Convention Center, hosting the retailers show, were also damaged. At least one person was killed and about 100 were injured authorities said. (AP Photo/Michelle Guest) - Aug 11 9:16 PM EDT
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