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Millbury Ohio Tornado: 7 Dead in Ohio, Damage Near Toledo, video

by NowPublic Staff | June 7, 2010 at 07:35 am

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Ohio Tornadoes Hits Wood and Ottawa Counties: 7 Dead, High School Damaged (video)

Residents in Millbury Ohio continue to pick up the pieces as a Tornado ripped through the Ohio town southeast of Toledo on the weekend

There were actually a series of tornadoes that ripped through Ohio with one causing the most damage. Winds reached 135 to a 165 miles an hour.

The Ohio toronadoes damaged homes and business, toppled trees and power lines.

Toledo Blade says the high school graduation ceremony at Lake High School was scheduled for Sunday but the Tornado hit first.

The dead included a 4-year-old boy and his mother, and the father of the Lake High School valedictorian, who was to speak at a graduation set for yesterday afternoon that was postponed because the school was destroyed hours earlier.

The seven confirmed deaths resulted from an 8-mile path of destruction in Wood County and neighboring Ottawa County. At least 30 others were injured

The cost of the damage from the Ohio Tornado is estimated at $100 million. Police vehicles were destroyed, a nuclear power plant was shut down, about 50 homes were completely wiped, and the Lake High School graduation ceremony has been rescheduled for Tuesday at the local community center as the High School was hit by the Ohio tornado as well.

Doug Wensink, 17, who had planned to graduate on Sunday, said the valedictorian lived in a home on a street blocked by fallen tree limbs.

Neighbors dug through a pile of rubble where the house once stood. There was nothing left but the foundation, which was filled with water and debris. A pool table floated in the middle.

Friends cried as they picked the family's belongings out of the mud and the mangled trees. One girl emerged from the muddy water carrying a teddy bear and a small jewelry box.

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at 12:45 on July 29th, 2010

What a terrible situation. It's always a beautiful thing to see the community immediately coming to the aid of the families that were most tragically affected by disasters like this. It's like hope in a dark time.