Sunday, March 4, 2012

A Massive Tornado Devastates Henryville, Indiana

A child's hobby horse lays outside a demolished gas station, Saturday, March 3, 2012 in Henryville, Indiana. The town was ripped apart the previous evening by an F4 tornado that
leveled a number of homes and caused massive damage to a public school. Nicholas Demille





Indiana State Police control access to the public school in downtown Henryville, Indiana Saturday, March 3, 2012. Nicholas Demille

Two homes in view of the heavily damaged Henryville, Indiana school underwent repairs Saturday, March 3, 2012. With destruction all around them, the two homes stood in defiance
of a tornado that killed over 30 people in Southern Indiana on Friday, March 2, 2012. Nicholas Demille

A Clark County Indiana school bus sits in the parking lot of the Henryville, Indiana school that was demolished by an F4 tornado Friday, March 2, 2012. Nicholas Demille
Another Clark County Indiana school bus was sits where it landed in the front of a nearby restaurant March 3, 2012 in Henryville, Indiana. The school bus was tossed across the street
and into the front of this restaurant several hundred yards away from the school. Nicholas Demille

A new sign advertises home repair Saturday, March 3, 2012 on the main road into Henryville, Indiana. The signs, which clearly could not have lasted through the F4 tornado that
ripped through this Midwestern town Friday, were numerous along the main roads in Henryville. Nicholas Demille

A tractor trailer perches precariously on the rear wall of a demolished Marathon gas station Saturday, March 3, 2012 in Henryville, Indiana. The store seemed remarkably intact
given that its roof was pulled completely off by an F4 tornado the night before. Nicholas Demille

An overturned truck sits by the roadside Saturday, March 3, 2012 just off interstate 65 in Henryville, Indiana. Nicholas Demille

A clean-up crew of off duty Indiana State Policemen poses Saturday, March 3, 2012 outside the home of a friend who was badly injured in the previous night's
tornado in Henryville, Indiana. Nicholas Demille

Policemen pose on the hood of a fellow officers squad car Saturday, March 3, 2012 in Henryville, Indiana. The town suffered massive damage when an F4 tornado ripped through
the small, Midwestern town on Friday, March 3.

Steal I-beams, bent by an F4 tornado, act as a grim reminder of the previous night's devastating storm in Henryville, Indiana.

The underside of a tractor trailer frames the devastated town of Henryville, Indiana Saturday, March 3, 2012. This view from nearby interstate 65 shows the path
of the previous night's F4 tornado.

A school in Henryville, Indiana sits in ruin Saturday, March 3, 2012 as rescue teams and clean up crews continued to work. 
Indiana National Guard troops patrol downtown Henryville, Indiana Saturday, March 3, 2012 as clean up from the previous night's storm continues.

The Henryville, Indiana Community Presbyterian Church looks badly damaged Saturday, March 3, 2012.