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Photos: Tornado-stricken towns in north Texas begin cleanup
Thu, Apr 05 2012 at 12:01 PM
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Photo: Oliver Berg/AFP/Getty Images
Mountain of wreckage
Volunteers Miguel Pichardo (left) and John Allen help a friend search for personal belongings in a pile of wreckage in Forney, Texas, on April 4, a day after several late-afternoon tornadoes inflicted serious damage on several towns within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Winds were estimated to have reached 130-150 miles per hour — enough to rip roofs off houses and toss around tractor-trailers like toy cars.
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Phoebe's savior
David Lowe walks past heavily damaged homes carrying his daughter's dog. Phoebe was rescued on April 3 from underneath the rubble in Arlington, Texas.
Although there were no casualties, 200 homes were destroyed and 650 were seriously damaged by the multiple tornadoes, according to a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross.
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Pondering next steps
April Bridges pauses on April 3 to observe the rubble while digging through the remains of a house destroyed by a tornado in Arlington, Texas.
After preliminary on-the-ground inspection, meteorologists are estimating that the stronger twisters of the storm rank at about an EF-2 on the Fujita scale, which measures the intensity of tornadoes based on the extent of damage that is inflicted on vegetation and man-made structures.
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