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Unidentified Girls of the 1947 Woodward Tornado Multi-Cache

Hidden : 4/11/2017
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Unidentified Girls of the 1947 Woodward Tornado


On April 9, 1947, Woodward, Oklahoma had no idea what was heading her direction. It was a nice spring evening and the town of 5000 people were enjoying the evening not knowing what was brewing to the southwest. There were no warnings or warning systems in place. To make things worst, the telephone operators were on strike. At 8:43pm, the world, for the town of Woodward, became chaotic and upside down. The biggest and deadliest tornado ever recorded in Oklahoma history, just stuck the town of Woodward.

The tornado started at White Deer, Texas at 5:42pm. It then tore through 14 towns in 3 states, traveling up to 50mph for 225 miles. It caused $9,700,000 in damage, claimed 181 lives, which 107 were in Woodward, injured over 1000 people destroying 600 homes and damaging another 900 more. After leaving White Deer, the tornado traveled toward Pampa, then on the Canadian, and, then, striking and demolishing Glazer and Higgins,Texas. It then rolled into Ellis county, just missing the towns of Shattuch, Arnett, Gage, and Fargo. This tornado stayed on the ground for more than 5 hours, reaching a with of 1.8 miles when it hit Woodward. This is the widest on record, still to this day. The Woodward tornado continued northeast , hitting two more towns before leaving Oklahoma around 10pm that evening. It dissipated after doing some damage in St. Leo, Kansas.

In the Woodward chaos, one jnjured little girl, Joan Gay Croft, disappeared from the hospital and has never been heard of again. Even though this story was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries", she has never been found.Also, there were three little girls, who died in this storm, that were never indentified. they could be children of Woodward or could have been blown from some other town. Know one knows, even to this day. They are buried here in this cemetery.

The first step of thiss cache are these little girls. the corordinates will take you to two of them. Find their graves, then head streight west, and on the ninth row, you will find the third little girl. On this little girl's headstore, is the number of the organization that placed the stone.

Now, the math part: take the number from the headstone and multiply by 3, then subtract 25. Add your answer to the minutes of the coordinates of the first two girls like this - ( 24945 + XXX = 2XXXX ). For the west, multiply the headstone number again with 4 this time, subtract 5 from your answer and, then, add to your west coordinates in the same manner - ( 24895 + XXX = 2XXXX ). With your new coordinates, proceed to the regular cache which is hidden where the 1947 Woodward traveled.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

svany pnpur, cvyy obggyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)