Silent... Tornado propelled straws... Phhbbbttt! I submit there is a great likelihood that the wood is twisted and the fibers pulled apart by the wind, the straw gets blown into the crack and the fibers close up on the straw when the wind passes.

How about the tornado propelled 2X4 that went through a brick wall, thru my brother's pillow, thru the mattress and box springs and gouged a divot in the concrete under the carpet? Same tornado took all the furniture out of the living room except for the coffee table, but left my tax refund check sitting on that coffee table under my mother's favorite ring. (It took every dam*ed thing else tho.) April 10, 1979. Wichita Falls, Tx.

Tornados do some wierd stuff, like sitting a slightly dirty pickup truck without a scratch on it in someone's second story bedroom. I've seen that one with my own eyes. So, I don't accept tornado propelled anything as any kind of convincing evidence. Too much stuff going on inside those monsters and too many variables. I'm much more impressed by your story of the double shoulder passthru.