Barnesville, GA EF3 Tornado – April 28, 2011

A haunting image of a photo still embedded in a torn apart tree roughly two and a half weeks after the tornado hit. Image from John Stallings.

This monster tornado was the final EF3+ of the 2011 Super Outbreak and one of the most extreme twisters in Georgia history. But, beyond the extraordinary damage, this is also a story about the remarkable people and communities who faced and surmounted a terrible disaster.

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