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Tornado rips across Kentucky and Indiana, killing at least 22.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

| November 06, 2005 | Maxwell, Tonya; Noel, Josh | COPYRIGHT 2007 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tonya Maxwell and Josh Noel

EVANSVILLE, Ind. _ Hearing the winds whip outside his mobile home and the sound of breaking glass, Dustin Watts ordered his wife to get in the bathtub and then went to get his sons, ages 5 and 2.

Watts, 28, doesn't know what happened next. But he thinks the tornado that killed at least 22 people when it struck northern Kentucky and southern Indiana early Sunday tossed his home into the air.

"I don't know if it flipped over but it felt like it did," Watts said as he sat on concrete steps that used to lead to his trailer but on Sunday afternoon connected to nothing. The frame of his trailer sat about 20 feet away in Eastbrook Mobile Home Park outside Evansville, Ind.

Though one of his boys suffered head injuries and was hospitalized, Watts and the rest of his family were relatively lucky compared to their neighbors in the trailer park, the site of the most fatalities from the tornado. By Sunday evening, Vanderburgh County officials estimated that at least 17 people had been killed in the trailer park, where…

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