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# US storms: tornado blows shop sign 112 miles
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## A powerful tornado which ripped across a small town in Georgia, swept up
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everything in its past and then roared north into Tennessee, finally dumping a
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shop sign more than 112 miles away.
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![][1]
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Rescue workers search a hillside after a tornado ripped through parts of
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Concord, Alabama. About 1,400 National Guard soldiers are being deployed
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around the state. Photo: AP
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8:00AM BST 29 Apr 2011
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Linda Summitt of Knoxville, Tennessee, could not believe her eyes when she
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walked into her front garden and found the sign for the Remco Business Center.
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But it wasn't the stray cardboard "FOR LEASE" sign that really caught her
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attention. It was where it had come from - some 112 miles to the south from
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the town of Ringgold, Georgia.
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Ringgold, near the Georgia-Tennessee border, was devastated by a deadly storm
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and tornado on Wednesday.
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She checked the number on the sign and rang the store owner immediately.
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"I said 'You're kidding,'" Alvin Mashburn, the owner of the center, told AFP.
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"I told her just to keep it as a souvenir."
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Mr Mashburn spent most of the day trying to help his neighbours rescue people
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trapped in their homes and in the debris, and desperately trying to clean up.
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal may request a presidential disaster declaration
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after 14 people were killed in the state by the deadly tornadoes.
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Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) public affairs officer Ken Davis
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said damage was being assessed across the state.
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"Georgia was hit hard by a number of devastating, super-cell tornadoes last
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night and this morning," Mr Davis said. "The northwest corner of the state has
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been hit particularly hard."
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