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Tornado damage in Center Point, Alabama, USA 3 week January, 2012
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uh what you're seeing here is uh damage
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uh done by the recent last week tornado
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which swept through Center Point
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Alabama in the southern part of the
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USA here we see a bank uh with a top
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blown off you've got a whole strip mall
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here on a hill that has been uh um
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storefronts blown out wind damage here
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to uh this
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building of course this uh incident uh
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attracted uh basically International uh
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news
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attention see some vehicles uh
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flipped and here we have some uh cars
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and vehicles that have been flipped uh
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turned over on their side and uh
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destroyed
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here we have uh some more storefronts uh
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plate glass blown out doors roofs taken
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off and this area of course is very near
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uh the area in which uh back last year
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uh in which a huge tornado came through
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the state uh and that tornado was almost
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a mile wide and cut a path of several
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hundred miles through Alabama in the
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South doing uh Millions
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uh worth of damage to uh homes and
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businesses and and killing uh several
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people here we see that U strip mall as
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you can see
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uh a lot of damage here with
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roofs and uh plate glass blown
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out have people here that are serving
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meals Salvation Army emergency disaster
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Services were on the scene uh helping
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people helping
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volunteers and of course we've got
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workers out on uh out on
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roadsides this is a Rally's
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Hamburger restaurant uh sustained a good
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bit of
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damage Car Wash back there with the roof
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blown off here we have a uh convenience
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store uh gas pumps
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uh roof blown
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off here's another service station with
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uh gas pump roofs blown
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off quite a bit of damage as you can see
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these were some
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heavy I beams heavy steel
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beams a lot of wind
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damage here is another shopping area in
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which
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uh part of the roof part of the front
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was blown out uh we'll go around to the
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side and here you can see even more
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destruction and damage uh where a good
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portion of the roof uh was simply blown
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away and part of the building wall was
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uh taken
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down
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and of course uh Cleanup in that area is
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continuing uh this past weekend
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volunteers came into the area and
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assisted in cleanup and uh and helping
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people get their businesses and their
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homes back into uh back into
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shape
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