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Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)
Mon May 20, 2013, 04:02 PM May 2013

Amazing and heartbreaking pictures from the tornado (+ link to LIVE video): [View all]

Images from THIS live feed:

First, this is where you can still see houses:


This is where there are simply no houses anymore:


This is unreal. See all those little horizontal lines? Those are driveways leading to rubble:


These are children running from at least one of two destroyed schools, presumably meeting up with their parents or other adults who'll help them:


Keep all these people in your thoughts please. I think a lot of people in this area are going to be coming home to bare concrete foundations and a landscape fit for a war. The scale of this damage is enormous and not easily represented in these relative close-ups.



PB

More, a wider shot:


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