Deadly twister slams Venus community
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The massive tornado was photographed as it swept across pasture land near Venus.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
Mature citrus trees were uprooted by the brute forc e of the twister that roared through this Venus area grove.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
The base of this power pole was snapped by the tornado that claimed the life of a 32-year-old Venus mother of three young daughters.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
The twisted stump is all that remains of this tree in the Venus area. The blastings winds twisted the tree off its base.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
A pine tree was left sprawled on the ground in the wake of Sunday's tornado that ripped through the Venus community Sunday afternoon.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
A second tornado cut a path through Cambria grove in Venus, leaving trees uprooted.
PHOTO BY DOUG KARLSON
Trees that lined qa grove road in Venus were reduced to broken limbs and trunks by a pair of tornadoes that slammed Venus.
Venus cattleman Doug Karlson submitted this first-person account of the two tornadoes that ravaged the Venus area Sunday, taking the life of 32-year-old Heather Town. He also photographed damage left by the storms.
I survived two tornadoes (Sunday)
June 24, but my neighbor to the north was killed.
