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Damaged Mobile Home
Photograph by Carsten Peter
Storm-stained skies hover over the remains of a mobile home demolished by a passing tornado. Tornadoes kill about 60 people in the U.S. every year and cause billions of dollars of property damage.
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Uprooted Trees
Photograph by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Uprooted trees and fallen power poles lay in a heap after a tornado swept through Americus, Georgia. The twister was part of a storms system that devastated a swath of northwestern Alabama and southeastern Georgia in March 2007.
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Maryland Tornado Damage, 2002
Photograph by Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Part of a spring 2002 thunderstorm and tornado system, the F5 twister that destroyed this La Plata, Maryland, house, caused three deaths, 93 injuries, and millions in property damage.
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Mobile Home Damage, Oklahoma
Photograph by Jerry Laizure/Getty Images
A Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, man inspects the twisted wreckage of his mobile home after a ferocious 1999 tornado plowed through. Due to their flimsy construction, mobile homes are particularly vulnerable to tornadoes.
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Missouri Tornado Damage, 2003
Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Images
A pick-up truck lies in a twisted heap in Stockton, Missouri, after tornadoes plowed through the area. Severe storms pummeled Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee from May 4 through May 11, 2003, killing 40 people and causing about $2.2 billion in damage.
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