By Don Mitchell
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:26 p.m. April 24, 2007
DENVER – A spring storm brought a strange brew of tornadoes, heavy snow, rain and hail to Colorado on Tuesday, damaging buildings and forcing schools and highways to close.
One tornado touched down near the small town of Wild Horse about 110 miles southeast of Denver. No injuries were reported, but several buildings were damaged, the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Department said.
A second twister was reported near the Colorado-Kansas border, about 35 miles east of Wild Horse, but no details were immediately known.
William Skinner, 47, of Wild Horse said the tornado first looked like a rope dangling from the clouds but then widened at the top and bottom.
“I was terrified,” he said. “It was right there, by my neighbor's, just about 200 feet away.”
He said he started building a tornado shelter in January and now “I'm going to be working like Noah's Ark to finish it.”
