Killer Tornadoes - Two Tornadoes Rip Through Texas



 (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ron T. Ennis)

Erin Foy, left, and her sister Immerriea White pull their luggage through the rain as their family abandons their destroyed home in the Portofino Apartments in Lancaster, Texas on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots.

(Reuters) - Thousands of residents were without power and hundreds of flights canceled on Wednesday as authorities surveyed the damage a day after up to a dozen tornadoes struck the densely populated Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.

Hundreds of homes and businesses sustained significant damage in the outbreak that brought hail, high winds, and rain as it skipped through the area, tossing tractor-trailer trucks into the air and injuring at least 17 people

DALLAS | Wed Apr 4, 2012