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Surveying the wreckage

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:03:08 +0000

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Doug Witham points out the damage to his 110-year-old house.

Firemen search for the injured

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:34:08 +0000

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While residents search for their belongings.

At Athens High School

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:26 +0000

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There was substantial damage at and around the school's athletic field. A soccer game was underway there when the storm hit, but there were only a few injuries, all minor.

Power lines were a tangled mess

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:34:28 +0000

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Yes, that's a transformer at eye-level.

The world's biggest cartop carrier . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:33:48 +0000

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. . . had been a doublewide mobile home a few hours earlier.

Not even new structures escaped

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:50 +0000

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Residents began the job of cleaning up and rebuilding.

What used to be . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:34:45 +0000

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. . . the bleachers at the high school.

The high school's scoreboard

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:07 +0000

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The trunk held . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:36:54 +0000

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. . . but the roots didn't.

Like dominoes

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:37:52 +0000

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The front window was blown out of Lindsey Johnson's collectibles shop, and it sent glassware on shelves at a side window toppling.

This is a 110-year-old house

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:36:31 +0000

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It held strong -- until a neighbor's garage smashed into it. If you look closely you can see how the wind peeled away the very paint on the house's front.

There was a lot of this

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:36:10 +0000

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The stuff stuck to the front of the house is debris; part of its roof was also gone.

This was more typical

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:37:18 +0000

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A fellow tries to find his possessions amid what used to be his home.

And this house got off easy

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:37:37 +0000

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Just part of the roof missing and a tree down.