Tornado hits US Midwest
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June 8, 2010, Tuesday
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A TORNADO unleashed a path of destruction in the Midwestern United States at the weekend, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building in northwest Ohio as a line of storms killed at least seven people and threatened to do more damage as it hit the Northeast.
Storms collapsed a movie-theater roof in Illinois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. But most of the worst was reserved for an 11-kilometer-long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, timber and family possessions.
The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School's gymnasium about 11pm on Saturday, several hours before the graduation ceremony was supposed to begin there. The school board president said one of the victims was the father of the class valedictorian.
Two buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 meters.
Storms collapsed a movie-theater roof in Illinois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. But most of the worst was reserved for an 11-kilometer-long strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, timber and family possessions.
The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School's gymnasium about 11pm on Saturday, several hours before the graduation ceremony was supposed to begin there. The school board president said one of the victims was the father of the class valedictorian.
Two buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 meters.
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