Again, a tornado in the US

In the south and mid-west of America continues deadly spring - the new tornadoes continue to tear to pieces now Missouri and Minnesota. The death toll in Joplin, Missouri, close to a hundred, and that's not all. About 30% of the city destroyed. In Minneapolis because of a tornado killed one person, schools were closed and a curfew imposed. The death toll from tornadoes this year have already reached 445 - this has not been since 1953.

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1. Residents of the city of Joplin, Missouri, begin to rake the rubble of houses after the new tornadoes May 22. Tornado left a strip of devastation in the 1, 5, and 6 km wide and 5 km long, destroying on their way home and enterprise





2. thundercloud approaching tornado devastated the area in Joplin.



3. Chu Vang just seen, what has become of her house after a tornado in the north of Minneapolis. As a result of rampant disaster killed one person and another 29 were injured.



4. Rescuers are waiting for doctors after the discovery of a body in a tornado damaged a car in Joplin.



5. Rescuers search for bodies and survivors in the hospital of St. John in Joplin. The hospital has suffered as a result of the tornado that destroyed nearly 30% of the city



6. Lynn Mosley steps over downed power lines in the north of Minneapolis. Tornado passed from the suburban town of St. Louis Park, where he destroyed the apartment building and two businesses, tore roofs off houses, felled huge trees and poles of power lines.



7. Donald and Helen Capps in the temporary shelter of the Red Cross at the University of Missouri in Joplin. Elderly couple lost the house as a result of the tornado.



8. Emergency destroyed by a tornado in Joplin area, near the Regional Medical Center



9. Damaged cars on each other in the parking lot of the medical center in Joplin.



10. Rescue the girl after the tornado in Joplin.



11. Residents of Joplin Street 26th Street after a tornado



12. Rescuers search for survivors or victims of tornadoes in the wreckage of a supermarket «Walmart»



13. Lifeguard on the background of the ruins of a supermarket «Walmart»



14. Andrew Hubbard helped his father Dwayne Riley in the north of Minneapolis. The son helped him to hide in the basement when the storm broke.



15. Residents of the northern district of Minneapolis among the debris.



16. Houses in ruins after a tornado in Minneapolis.



17. A piece of wood in the bumper of the car after a tornado in Minneapolis, in which one person died and 18 were injured.



18. 13-year-old Mea Miller at his home, which at the time the tornado tree fell



19. Takeshi Davis (left) is calling relatives to say that they were all right. Nearby is her 10-year-old daughter Sinsir Davis with a dog named Pope.



20. Rachel Hurst collects things from surviving a tornado destroyed a garage in Minneapolis



21. 89-year-old Don Atteberri climbs over the railing of his dilapidated house tornado.



22. 17-year-old Candice Kell found a book on psychology in his grandmother's house after a tornado in Joplin.



23. Storm clouds over farm near Lamar, Missouri, at sunset. Earlier, the storm has given rise to the strongest tornado destroyed much of Joplin.



24. Maggie Kelly with her husband and dog Three Adams St, they nashil in the wreckage of a house in Joplin. And Maggie and Trey once survived Hurricane Katrina



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