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Old 16th Jan 2010, 00:11
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Fair call. But its not really like iy happens in the Wizard of Oz, anything lifted doesn't go very high or very far as the vortex gets broken up very easily as it travels over the ground.

A tile falling of the roof could hurt but only in the same way as anything else dropping off a roof.

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