Norm Johnson was thrown out of a window by a tornado that ripped through his Wisconsin home on Tuesday night.
A 94-year-old man was thrown out of his window by a tornado in Wisconsin that destroyed his home on Tuesday.
Norm Johnson was sat in the living room of his home in Elk Mound when the tornado tore through the building and tossed him out of his chair, according to aThe tornado broke bones in both of the elderly man's forearms and led him to lose the small finger on his right hand. The fundraiser says the incident also caused fractures in his back.
Helen Johnson, the 95-year-old wife of Norm, was also hurt in the chaos. She took a bump to the head and also picked up"some scrapes and bruisers," the fundraiser says.
She also said her grandfather, a former fireman, had a landscaping business and tree farm on the land of their now-destroyed home.The GoFundMe page for Norm Johnson and his wife Helen had raised $1,180 of its $5,000 target at the time of writing.that western Wisconsin was struck by a tornado, with Elk Mound particularly impacted by the disaster.The tornado registered at EF-3 on the Fujita scale, according to the National Weather Service, meaning its winds ranged between 136-165 miles per hour.
Idaho and Montana are expected to be impacted by the winter storm, which is forecast to see temperatures drop by as much as 50 F.
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