Photo: #A flag hangs on a snapped tree stump on N. Ferrant Place in Minneapolis, Minn. Monday, May 23, 2011.
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A flag hangs on a snapped tree stump on N. Ferrant Place in Minneapolis, Minn. Monday, May 23, 2011. (MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson)

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Minneapolis tornado

North Minneapolis residents are cleaning up after a tornado tore through the area on May 22, 2011. The storm was responsible for two deaths, dozens of injuries and at least $166 million in damages.

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Minneapolis tornado

One victim of tornado shaken but safe

by Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio
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St. Paul, Minn. — Sarah Heller, who lives in the Webber-Camden neighborhood in northwest Minneapolis, recounts the actual tornado and the wreckage it left in its wake — trees that disappeared, roofs that moved, and a neighbor's home that was looted.

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