Guardian: The hilltop town of Rainsville, Alabama, bills itself as a peaceful area surrounded by beautiful ridges, valleys and lakes. By Thursday morning, after a mile-wide tornado had torn through six southern US states, killing at least 280 people, it almost seemed to have been erased from existence.
"It looks like something just washed parts of the town off the map," said Israel Partridge, a volunteer search and rescue worker. "Whole subdivisions, where there were 20 or 30 houses, there is nothing left.......
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Deadliest tornadoes since 1974 rip apart towns and lives in six US states
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 28th, 2011
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