Silver State twisters rare, but memorable
By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal
CARSON CITY — Mrs. Joe Leavy was sitting on the bed in her home up the road from the Hoover Dam construction site when a mammoth wind on July 24, 1931, shook the house and carried her out of a window and into the sky.
Leavy was spirited away on a “magic carpet ride” on her mattress as a twister ripped apart 12 nearby homes and left seven people injured.
She “landed in a heap with the mattress, shaken up but unhurt,” according to the seemingly straight account in the Review-Journal.
“Autoists” described the tornado “as bounding along, in zig-zag fashion, coming down with its point here and there.”
A tornado in Nevada?
