Ken Baldauf of rural Pearl City, Ill., uses a skid loader to lift a section of a shed roof from a fence near Illinois Route 73, three miles south of Pearl City, May 9, 2003. The roof was blown approximately 400 yards across a soybean field from the building on Baldauf's property. High winds damaged several other properties in the area during the night.
Sissy, a 14-year-old Basset hound, sits shaking near storm debris next to the home of her owners, George and Dorothy Lewis, in Karnak, Ill., May 7, 3003
Brenda Crockett, right, removes some belongings from her home with the help of family friend Jessica Williams, the morning after a tornado ripped through Massac County near Mermet, Ill., May 7, 2003. Crockett had climbed out of her basement after a tornado leveled her house, just in time to see another twister bearing down. "There was nothing for me to do except lie down and grab the grass," said Crockett.
Vicky McNichols is consoled by her youngest son, Colton, near the rubble of their trailer home, near Big Bay, Ill., May 7, 2003.
A tractor trailer lays on its side next to a grain bin after being blown over by a tornado near the west-bound 29-mile marker along Interstate 24 in Massac County, Ill., east of the New Columbia exit, late Tuesday night, May 6, 2003, west of Metropolis, Ill. The interstate was partially blocked by downed trees as well.
Dwight and Sidney Beggs check the damage to Tim and Charlotte Beck's home near Joppa, Ill., May 7, 2003.
Chad Shreves looks through debris from his mobile home, May 7, 2003, which landed more than a quarter-mile away from where it once stood after tornadoes ripped through Massac County near Mermet, Ill.
The front porch of Tim and Charla Beck's Massac County, Ill., home is all that remains after a series of tornadoes on May 6, 2003, pushed the home off the foundation to a pond more than 500 yards away. According to family and friends, the Becks' young son was hospitalized for injuries he received during the storm.