Showing posts with label Washington. Show all posts
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Satellite images show devastating effects of a big tornado on a small Illinois town

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The Nov. 17, 2013 tornado outbreak ended the lives of three people in the town of Washington, Ill., and upended the lives of many in the town of 15,000.

Many news stations released aerial photos of the devastation, but only recently were satellite photos released which gave a new appreciation of the scope of the disaster. As many as 500 homes were damage or destroyed during the tornado outbreak.