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Published May 18, 2008 10:01 pm - As if victims of the May 10 tornado don’t have enough to worry about, their personal belongings have begun turning up all over the region. Papers, pictures, checks strewn across wide area by May 10 tornado By Seth Putnam news@joplinglobe.com As if victims of the May 10 tornado don’t have enough to worry about, their personal belongings have begun turning up all over the region. A violent EF4 tornado hit Picher, Okla., that day and traveled 71 miles on the ground. Winds reached 170 mph and, according to the National Weather Service in Springfield, a car in Newton County was carried one-half mile. Lighter objects were carried even farther. George Richards, a Wentworth resident, was standing on his daughter’s porch watching the storm roll through. “Two dead birds fell out of the sky,” he said. “Then a huge piece of corrugated metal came down on the highway.” When he returned home, he found wreckage littered across his property. “I spent all day covering about 40 acres, picking up trash and piling it in my pickup,” he said. “I’ve got quite a bit of corrugated metal roofing, vinyl siding and three different colors of shingles. There’s lots of insulation.” Richards was amazed by what else he found. “I also found a section of a sign from Lant’s Feed Store,” he said. Before being demolished, the feed store was 30 miles away, near Seneca. “I couldn’t believe that stuff was here,” Richards said. “That’s quite a long way.” Angela Short, of Quapaw, Okla., who was in Springfield that day, saw other storm debris. “We went outside to see what the weather condition was,” Short said. “It was between a sprinkle and a soft rain. (My sister) said, ‘Look up in the sky; there’s debris falling.’” 
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