Daylight reveals extent of Good Friday tornadoes
Date: 4/25/2011 Album ID: 1233003
Photos by J.B. Forbes, David Carson, Johnny Andrews, Emily Rasinski, Christian Gooden, Laurie Skrivan, Robert Cohen
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People surveyed the damage and began the cleanup Saturday after the Good Friday storms that sawed across St. Louis. The National Weather Service said the storms and likely tornadoes were the worst to hit St. Louis in 40 years
April 23, 2011---
James Shrum walks on the roof of his mother's home with his son James Shrum Jr., 13, as they check out the damage done to the home on Bern Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011---
It's really really really bad, Frances Choat tells her insurance adjuster as she stands outside her home on Dawn Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. Choat had just gotten home from Good Friday church service when the storm came through. 
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April 23, 2011---
A stop sign coated in mud at the corner of  Wabash Avenue, Ball Avenue, and Wilson Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011---
A roof was blown off a home on Maryville Road in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011---
A branch hangs on the rear view mirror of a car on Angela Drive in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011: Damage in Maryland Heights On Diane Marie Drive. Lewis Schucart > St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Saturday April 23, 2011 - Berkeley -
Melvin Nichols Sr. purses his lips as he arrives to see the damage to his property and vehicles on Nevis Saturday in Berkeley after a tornado ripped through the neighborhood Friday night.
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April 23, 2011---
Debris scattered the backyards along Bern Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011 - Damage to the C concourse is seen from a helicopter over Lambert St. Louis Airport.
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April 23, 2011---
Chris Humphreys pulls off the roof of a neighbor's garage that was blown onto the home  he rehabbed and looks after for an older woman at the corner of Wabash and Ball Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011---
Crews clear fallen trees from Bern Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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4/23/11  Saturday  New Melle
Rhonda DeGeal talks to insurance adjustors from the front room of her tornado damaged home on Foristell Road near New Melle in St. Charles county Saturday morning. DeGeal said that she and her husband, Doug, had lived in the house for two years. It is their first home. She said the storm didn't sound like the typical freight train. She said it sounded like a loud whistle.
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April 23, 2011 - Residents work inside their home, the roof ripped off by Friday's tornado in Bridgeton.
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April 23, 2011 - Ameren crews work to restore power near a Dollar Rent-A-Car in Bridgeton.  
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April 23, 2011---
James Shrum Jr. slides down his grandmother's caved in garage roof as his father James Shrum spots him. The father and son were checking out the damage to the roof of Nancy Shrum's home on Bern Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. 
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April 23, 2011---
Frances Choat looks into the garage attached to her home on Dawn Avenue in Granite City Saturday morning. Choat, who has lived in the home since 1963, had just gotten home from Good Friday church service when the storm came through. 
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April 23, 2011---
Birds still sit on Nancy Shrum's birdhouse even after it is bent at a 90 degree angle after storms came through Granite City Saturday Friday night. 
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April 23, 2011 - Damage to the C concourse is seen from a helicopter over Lambert St. Louis Airport.
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April 23, 2011 - Windows blown out at the main concourse is seen from a helicopter over Lambert St. Louis Airport.
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