depscribe's photos with the keyword: tornado

Surveying the wreckage

06 Oct 2010 177
Doug Witham points out the damage to his 110-year-old house.

Firemen search for the injured

17 Sep 2010 116
While residents search for their belongings.

At Athens High School

17 Sep 2010 125
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

17 Sep 2010 161
Yes, that's a transformer at eye-level.

The world's biggest cartop carrier . . .

17 Sep 2010 131
. . . had been a doublewide mobile home a few hours earlier.

Not even new structures escaped

17 Sep 2010 141
Residents began the job of cleaning up and rebuilding.

What used to be . . .

17 Sep 2010 143
. . . the bleachers at the high school.

The high school's scoreboard

The trunk held . . .

17 Sep 2010 145
. . . but the roots didn't.

Like dominoes

17 Sep 2010 1 152
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

17 Sep 2010 106
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

17 Sep 2010 100
The stuff stuck to the front of the house is debris; part of its roof was also gone.

This was more typical

17 Sep 2010 107
A fellow tries to find his possessions amid what used to be his home.

And this house got off easy

17 Sep 2010 116
Just part of the roof missing and a tree down.

Vanishing Point

08 Sep 2010 1 195
East of Amarillo, Texas. The radio was going crazy -- yup, there is a tornado in there someplace. Nikon F3, 18mm Nikkor, Kodachrome