HUGO, Minn. As residents in Hugo begin too move on from last weeks tornado, residents say they noticed a few bizarre things amid the damage. Jason Akin said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom - draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink. The toilet paper didn't even rip.

"All I could say was, "You have to be kidding me", Akins recalled.

He also said that the winds overturned sofas and ripped away his roof, but dishes of cat food and water were untouched. The cat food was actually still in the bowl.

While hurricanes, floods and blizzards create broad swaths of damage, tornados seem to have tiny fingers that can reach in to small areas and cause some weird mischief. Some say tornados have their own personalities.

Terry Clarkin said the Hugo tornado stuck four steak knives in the yard, and they landed in a perfect square, with the blades in the dirt about three inches.

Across the street, a tree had been stripped of leaves, and instead was filled with pink wads of insulation - looking much like a tree from a cartoon.

Five-year-old Lauren Ford found a red Spider-Man-T-shirt in her back yard. One neighbor found a fishing boat against the remains of a front porch. Others found canoes, checkbooks or toys.

Jeff Janus said the tornado protected him.

He was in the front yard when the storm hit, and he ran inside and grabbed his dog and cat.

"I saw people's houses flying by," he said. He didn't make it to the basement, but instead crouched down in the hallway with one animal in each arm. He said the storm tore off the bedroom doors and placed them gently on top of him - shielding him from falling debris.

When the storm passed, he said, he spit shreds of insulation from his mouth, but he felt the doors saved him.

"I find it hard to believe I am actually here", said Janus.


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Jeez, I wish my toilet paper would rewind...Everytime the tiny hiney's are here the toilet paper winds up two rooms past the bathroom

Amazing what tornadoes can do - amazing and terrible, of course.

Back when I was a kid in Ohio, we went to visit a friend of my Mom's after a tornado. Her roof was gone but pretty much everything else was okay. Funny thing... her sewing needles and pins had blown out of the dish she kept them in her sewing room and stuck in the door jamb.

*giggles* Everywhere I go, people either take it out of the bathroom, or are too lazy to put a new one on the dispenser. :D I've yet to see tornado damage happen to my things -- from what I know, tornadoes have never struck my homes or previous homes. However, we had a strong wind blow a tree away from our house, and that was relief. All the trees in our yard are within falling distance of our house meaning that if any of them fall the wrong way, our house will be damaged. Limbs got thrown about in the storms the other day, but fortunately missed my car. (My car only has liability on it. Naturally, after the downgrade is when my windshield started cracking.)

Funny how Terry said 'it looked like a tree from a cartoon.' My first thought was the trees in 'The Lorax' from a book by Dr. Seuss.