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Pictures of Columbia shuttle van go viral on internet
Posted: 04.25.2011 at 4:44 PM
Updated: 04.25.2011 at 5:00 PM
Mark Slavit

Mark Slavit is the Columbia Bureau chief and the Mid-Missouri Traveler.

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ST. LOUIS, MO. -- Friday’s tornado that destroyed part of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport left a Columbia van dangling from the top of a parking garage.

Pictures of a MO-X shuttle van have gone viral on the internet.

MO-X owner Norm Ruebling said people from all over the world have contacted him about his “dangling van”.

Ruebling said the van is a total loss.

The driver of the van was in the baggage claim areas of Lambert airport when the tornado hit.

Ruebling said, “The St. Louis airport did a great job.  They moved those people into the interior areas of the airport.  It amazes me that with a storm of that magnitude that no one was hurt at the airport.  No one was hurt in the St. Louis area.  It’s just miraculous.”

Ruebling said his MO-X shuttles are back to running on their regular schedules between Columbia and St. Louis.

Lambert airport is back to about 80% service.

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