From New York-
The pastor and parishioners of a historic Flushing church say divine intervention must be the reason no one was hurt when Thursday's tornado toppled its steeple.
"We believe it was a miracle," said Pastor Ted Chase, who was in the bell tower of St. George's Episcopal Church when the wooden structure was blown off directly above his head.
Chase sprinted up to the bell tower to shutter the windows when he heard the twister approaching, but a sickening thud stopped him in his tracks.
"I felt wind blowing all around me and heard a tremendous boom above my head. There was also this rumbling," he said. "I knew enough to get down."
The shocked priest found the shattered steeple splayed across the street.
"The tower didn't just topple. The steeple was picked up and thrown across the street. I've never seen anything like it," he said.
Despite the damage, Chase celebrated a Mass less than an hour after the storm.
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