Tornado survivors stunned by damage
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WICHITA, Kan., May 7 Residents of a Kansas town flattened by a tornado say they came home to "the end of the world." Residents of Greensburg, Kan., planned Monday to try to salvage what they can."There's nothing left. It's the end of the world," Evelyn Grimm told the New York Times. "All of the things you have lived with, all your life, they are just not there. ... About that quick, everything you have valued forever is gone." Town residents said tornado sirens gave them warning of Friday night's tornado. Most headed into their basements to wait out the tornado. They didn't expect to come upstairs and find their town gone.City Administrator Steve Hewitt sat out the tornado in the basement with his son. When he went upstairs he discovered "there was no upstairs," he told the Times. "A lot of folks don't really understand that. One hundred percent of everybody's possessions is gone. There's nothing to recover," Hewitt said, the Times reported. The mile-wide tornado killed at least eight people. Dogs were searching for more victims or survivors.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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