Two days after a massive EF4 tornado devastated the town of Fairdale, Illinois, residents were allowed back into their homes to survey the damage and salvage any treasured belongings that weren't taken by the storm.
The residents of the small farming town were bused in by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office at 7 a.m. Saturday, less than 48 hours after the half-mile-wide twister wrecked homes, tossed cars into the air and killed two people. When they returned and the sad reality of the damage's scope set in, some residents simply couldn't believe they survived the storm.
"I thought my parents were dead," said 32-year-old Adam Davis, who hopped into his truck Thursday and raced along with the tornado in the hopes of getting to his parents' house and rescuing them before the twister struck. He found them standing in their doorway frozen in disbelief and grabbed them just in time.
http://www.weather.com/storms/tornado/news/fairdale-tornado-residents-return
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