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Survivors picking up pieces from deadly twisters

Friday, April 29, 2011

CONCORD, Ala. (AP) - It was bad enough that a tornado obliterated Derrick Keef’s house. Worse still was the heartbreaking scavenger hunt for his most priceless possessions strewn across the devastated neighborhood. His guns were in the ruins of a neighbor’s home. A Christmas heirloom shared space in a ditch with broken glass and jagged nails. And his 7-year-old son’s bike - one of the few toys he could salvage - was pinned under a car a block away.