“After I got through the doors the rain went sideways. I turned around and there was a tornado. It was right there, tearing down these branches. It picked up and moved my car, flipped it sideways and backwards against these trees.”

— Myrl Wallace, 58, of Boulder Creek, whose pickup truck was battered by a freak tornado that roared through Scotts Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Dec. 14 where he had gone shopping at the Target store.

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