When something like this:
(AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Parrish Velasco)hits the fourth largest metropolitan area in the country, there are going to be tons of photos and videos of the storm and its aftermath. Here are a few that illustrate how dangerous this situation was, and how lucky those people were that there were no serious injuries and no deaths.
The one above is from near Lancaster
As first light rises over Lancaster, Texas on Wednesday, the devastation from a tornado on Tuesday runs a mile long down a series of neighborhoods. The National Weather Service says possibly as many as a dozen twisters moved across the Dallas-Fort Worth area Tuesday, bouncing in and out of neighborhoods, and destroying homes at random. The Red Cross estimates that 650 homes were damaged in Lancaster, one of the hardest hit areas. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)
Mark Fox, center, National Weather Service Warning & Coordination Meteorologist, and his staff, look over the damage in the neighborhood after a severe storm passed the area, Wednesday in Arlington, Texas. Preliminary findings indicate one of the tornadoes that struck North Texas had wind gusts ranging from 136 to 165 mph. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley)
Lightning streaks across the sky in Tyler, Texas as a powerful line of thunderstorms, several spawning tornadoes moved across Texas, Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
Homes in Lancaster, Texas, lay destroyed by a tornado on Tuesday. Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Khampha Bouaphanh)
--Jerry Wofford
