Domino Dancing - ADV-NEWS, Tornado injures 6 in London.

Tornado injures 6 in London
By ROBERT BARR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
12/8/2006

LONDON - A tornado Thursday ripped off a section of a wall of a northwest
London house, damaged several nearby homes and injured at least six people,
authorities said.
A man was taken to a hospital with a head injury, and five other adults were
treated at the scene for minor injuries and shock, London Ambulance Service
said.

"It came from nowhere. The sky turned dark, hail started falling, and then
within 10 minutes it was gone," said resident Perrin Sledge.

"A police officer told me he had a report of the tornado on his radio, turned
the corner and saw the wind whip a garbage can into another car. He said it was
like a scene from the movie "Twister,' " Sledge said.

London Fire Brigade reported that about 100 properties were affected in a
quarter-square-mile area.

The freak storm hit just after 11 a.m. on a day of unsettled weather, as high
winds, bursts of rain and occasional hail and thunder swept across southern
England.

The tornado ripped whole sections of roof off some homes, tore tiles from other
roofs and uprooted trees. "It was like some sort of cyclone," said Tim Klotz, a
resident of the Kensal Rise neighborhood in northwest London.

"I was actually in an attic room working at my desk on the computer, and there
was heavy rain and sleet, and then the wind just really changed. I looked up
through a skylight, and debris was falling through the air. I heard what seemed
like large clay dominoes falling, which I think were roof tiles," Klotz said.