Many killed as storms lash N.C.

At least 22 people were killed during a brutal wave of storms and tornadoes that battered Virginia, North Carolina and other Southern states over the weekend, leaving swaths of devastation and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people, officials said Sunday.

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April 19, 2011

The sun rises over damaged cars and a destroyed mobile home community in Dunn, N.C., after a tornado ripped through the area.

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April 19, 2011

Mailboxes stand near the entrance of at a severely damaged mobile home community in Dunn, N.C.

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April 18, 2011

Audrey McKoy looks out the window of her destroyed home in Ammon, N.C.

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April 18, 2011

June White searches through what is left of Moore's Family Care Home in Colerain, N.C.

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April 18, 2011

Arturo Nazar walks down a tree after photographing the damage to a home in Raleigh, N.C.

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April 18, 2011

Stephanie Corbett walks past a destroyed mobile home wrapped around a tree in Gloucester County, Va. The home was owned by friends of hers, Ruth and Periclous Koutsombinas, both of whom were at home when the tornado hit. Periclous Koutsombinas was killed. Ruth Koutsombinas was injured by a fallen tree and is hospitalized in good condition, according to a relative.

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April 18, 2011

Lisa Langdon checks damage to Ruby Miller's home on King Charles Street in Raleigh, N.C.

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April 18, 2011

Keith Lee talks with a relative at his mother's destroyed home in Colerain, N.C. Lee's mother and her five neighbors huddled in the bedroom of her home for protection from the passing storm.

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April 18, 2011

Melissa Jernigan sorts through the remains of her home in Askewville, N.C. Jernigan was fortunate to not have been home in the trailer, which was reported to have been lifted up and spun around, according to eyewitnesses.

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April 18, 2011

Emma Morris, right, comforts June White at Moore's Family Care Home in Colerain, N.C., after a tornado ripped through the area.

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April 17, 2011

Annina Purdy, who was inside the Lowe's hardware store in Sanford, N.C., the previous day when a tornado destroyed the building, returns to the store's parking lot to reclaim personal belongings from her car.

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April 17, 2011

Jenn Zezza walks though the back yard of a home on Serendipity Drive, in the McKinley Mill subdivision, after it was flattened by a tornado in Raleigh, N.C.

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April 17, 2011

Mary Grady sits in her neighbor's yard, where she rode out a tornado in Askewville, N.C. Her home was destroyed in the storm.

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April 17, 2011

Gov. Bev Perdue speaks at a press conference in downtown Raleigh. Perdue toured six counties to see storm damage following a series of severe storms and tornadoes.

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April 17, 2011

Robert Byrum, right, cleans up his father's home in Askewville, N.C., after a tornado moved through the area. Rescue crews searched for survivors in wind-blasted landscapes Sunday in North Carolina, the state hardest hit by a storm system that spawned dozens of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia and left dozens dead.

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April 17, 2011

Broken windows are boarded up on a dormitory at Shaw University in Raleigh. The university canceled the rest of the semester because of extensive damage from multiple tornadoes.

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April 17, 2011

A minivan is upended at a home in Dunn, N.C.

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April 17, 2011

Michael Collier walks over fallen trees and debris from his home in Dunn, N.C.

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April 17, 2011

Dorothy Wade, left, a sophomore at Shaw University, leaves her dormitory after a tornado hit the area on Saturday in Raleigh.

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April 17, 2011

Hector Diodonet, president of the homeowners assocation of the Fairfield Farms subdivision in Fayetteville, N.C., talks with neighbors while cleaning up his home.

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April 17, 2011

Jenn Zezza, center, along with other volunteers, helps sort through what was the office of a home on Serendipity Drive, in the McKinley Mill subdivision, after it was flattened by a tornado in Raleigh.

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April 17, 2011

Venita Lee inspects her home in Askewville, N.C. after a tornado moved through the area Saturday.

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April 17, 2011

Hannah Rosser, 13, who suffered bruising to her ribs the previous day when a tornado hit Lowe's hardware store in Sanford, N.C., walks through the Lowe's parking lot. Her family came back on Sunday to reclaim the car that Rosser's father, Joseph Rosser, also injured, was sitting in when the tornado hit.

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April 17, 2011

Lowe's store manager Mike Hollowell, who directed dozens of customers to safety when a tornado struck the Sanford, N.C., hardware store the previous day, fights the bright sun between media interviews where he repeatedly recounted the scene.

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April 16, 2011

Emergency personnel work around a Lowes Home Improvement store after it was hit by a tornado in Sanford, N.C..

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April 16, 2011

A Lowe's employee stands in the parking lot of the store after it was hit by a tornado in Sanford, N.C.

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April 16, 2011

A tornado flattened most of this home in the LaGrange subdivision in Fayetteville, N.C.

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April 16, 2011

A truck is flipped over and destroyed after a tornado left several businesses in ruins in Sanford, N.C.

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April 16, 2011

Residents of the Saint Andrews community sift through debris and assess the damage after a tornado left several businesses and homes in ruins in Sanford, N.C.

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April 16, 2011

An EMS worker assists an employee from Umami Sushi restaurant to safety after a tornado left several businesses in ruins in Sanford, N.C.

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April 16, 2011

Patrick Woods, a freshman at Pine Forest High School in Fayetteville, N.C. picks up a flag on the remains of structures on the softball field in Fayetteville, N.C.

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Many killed as storms lash N.C.

At least 22 people were killed during a brutal wave of storms and tornadoes that battered Virginia, North Carolina and other Southern states over the weekend, leaving swaths of devastation and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people, officials said Sunday.

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