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Let’s go ahead and build that Great Wall of Tornado…

10:52 AM EST on February 28, 2014

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It was kind of weird news week in Oklahoma.

We had some Braum's delivery truck empty syrup onto the highway, News 9's Steve Shaw try to extract every ounce (and ounce) of the story into a sweeps waffle, and then some guy who Steve Shaw probably wants to interview prance naked through the streets near Wilshire and May.

In addition to all that, some crazy physicist from Temple proposed that we build giant walls throughout the Midwest to stop tornados.

From KOCO:

Physicist Rongjia Tao of Temple University has authored a paper that proposes building giant walls to prevent tornadoes.

He said three east-west structures should be built to weaken airflow. He claimed that this could help prevent tornadoes from hitting "tornado alley."

Tao proposed building structures that are about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide.