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School Destroyed, Kansas

Photo: Flattened Greensburg, Kansas school
Tornadoes, such as the one that destroyed this Greensburg, Kansas, school, have occurred in every U.S. state. Texas holds the record—an annual average of 120.
Photograph by Orlin Wagner/Associated Press

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