twister

“The curly tips of unfurled fern fronds. It makes an excellent tongue twister, doesn’t it? Unfurled fern fronds! Unfurled fern fronds!”

Equally good is a long take that stays on Glinda’s teary face as, just behind her and out of focus, the Wizard and Morrible hatch an assassination plot involving a twister.

But when a twister menaces their city, and Dad calls the boys while on the air, that goes viral and there’s actually a moral to the story.

Missouri bore the brunt of the twisters, which began to spawn on Friday.

While a twister didn’t end up touching down in San Francisco, one did just south in Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz County.