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Is this picture floating around the internet of the Iowa Boy Scout Camp Tornado photoshopped or legit?

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/mmcgwire70/DSC00262.jpg?t=1213306677

I don't know what do think. Crazy.

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  1. Story, as we all know, is legit.  Picture is highly doubtful -- remember the tracker talking about "rain-wrapped" tornadoes?  This picture is a stand-alone funnel.  HIGHLY unlikely it's real.

    Have a great night!


  2. It is real 4 boys 2 were 13 2 were 14 died in that storm .They said it was a week long camp,so sad.

  3. thats not the picture. thats a different picture. Because i was driving with my family and we drove past not knowing that was a tornado and the sky was a brownish blackish type color.

    we found out later on. we thought the tornado wasn't by us. this is more what it looked like in color.

  4. The photo seems to have first appeared on the web at http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zeroth... when their user with handle "CaptTater" posted it with time-stamp "2:33 PM 6/12/2008", attributing it to a coworker.  There is additional commentary at that URL on the validity and origin of the photo.

  5. Get serious !

  6. The picture is an AP photo (It was in our local newspaper on June 14).  It is captioned: "A tornado touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday night during a massive storm".

    Orchard, Iowa is in north central Iowa, specifically Mitchell County, east of Mason City.  This was not the location of the Boy Scout tragedy.  That took place in western Iowa.

  7. It is very real.  4 boys died at that camp from the tornado.

  8. it's not only photoshopped, it is badly done.

    There are no grain silos visible from the camp (and it is pretty stereotyped to think that there would be.)

    None of the buildings look like that one.

    There was a hard driving rain during the tornado- the streets even back in Omaha were badly flooded

    The image used is the side of a road in a small town, not a heavily wooded Scout Camp a bit off the main road. You can GoogleEarth the camp and see the layout- nothing like the photo.

    Who would stand there with a good camera during a storm that close?

    Compare this with the legit cell phone photos and it is obviously not from the Scout Ranch.
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