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Tornado-Destroyed Building

Photo: These trailers and this building were destroyed after tornadoes ripped through the area

This Chickasha, Oklahoma, trucking company suffered a directed hit by a tornado during a spate of violent Midwest storms in May of 1999. Oklahoma is part of the so-called “Tornado Alley,” a region in the United States that sees the most powerful and destructive.

Photograph by Tannen Maury/AFP/Getty Images