US: Scores of tornadoes leveled towns and killed 6 on Sunday in Midwest

[Emily]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/us/severe-storms-batter-central-illinois.html?_r=0

Scores of Tornadoes Slam Midwest States
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
Published: November 17, 2013

Severe storms moved through the Midwest on Sunday, leveling towns, killing at least six people in Illinois and injuring dozens more, and causing thousands of power failures across the region...

Such a sudden and strange onset:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-midwest-storms-20131118,0,3765417.story

By Matt Pearce, Carlos Sadovi and Michelle Manchir

November 17, 2013, 10:37 p.m.

Tornado outbreak brings late-fall terror to Midwest
The unseasonable storms roar across Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kentucky, killing six people and destroying entire blocks of homes.
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Then there was the Memphis, Tenn., punk rock band Pillow Talk, packed into a GMC Suburban on an interstate almost 200 miles north, just east of Peoria, Ill. The tornado arrived looking almost like a mist, band members said, then violently spun their vehicle around three full times, slashing their faces with broken glass.

"I accepted the fact I was about to die," said Joshua Cannon, 21. "I looked at my best friend that I've been playing music with [my entire life], and we were like, 'OK, guys, this is it.'"
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Jeff Siltman was blowing leaves outside his home in Washington when he heard a roar coming right for him. He glanced over his shoulder and saw a funnel cloud dropping from the sky.

Siltman screamed for his family ? including five children ? to head for the basement as the sound of shattering glass filled their home. When they emerged, the house was leveled, but they had all survived...