Although the 2014 tornado season kicked off with a whimper, not a bang, thanks in part to cool weather persisting across much of the United States, this past weekend was a particular violent one in terms of extreme weather, with twisters leaving behind them a sizable swath of destruction and despair across Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and beyond (and judging from reports out of Mississippi, this storm system is very much from done). At least 18 people, a majority of them residents of Arkansas, lost their lives in this weekend’s storms, the first reported fatalities in an otherwise quiet tornado season.
And while numerous “traditional” buildings and homes were leveled by this weekend’s deadly storm system, a handful of trailer parks were also destroyed including one in North Carolina that was “ripped to shreds.”
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