Injuries and damage as tornado touches down

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Injuries and damage as tornado touches down

Miguel Fuentes (left) and his girlfriend Iva Collins save their belongs at Relax Inn on Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Adairsville on Wednesday. Collins said she felt lucky she was not in her room when the tornado hit.

A plant on Adairsville Highway was destroyed by a tornado Wednesday. Residents in Adairsville clean up after the storm hit the town. Several buildings were destroyed and at least one person was killed. Roads are blocked by trees and roadblocks in the hardest-hit areas of town.

Pankaj Patel tries to salvage some of the products from his cousin's store, Adairsville Supermarket, following an afternoon tornado on Highway 41 Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville. The store is owned by Shyam Patel.

Fanyumi Lopez, 38, holds her 4-year-old daughter Rucelmi as the family waits for help after a tree destroyed half their mobile home in Jack Craig's Trailer Park in Adairsville on Wednesday.

Kevin Fleming looks over his destroyed car and Fleming Electric Services business in Adairsville following a tornado on Wednesday. Fleming said he had just parked and entered the business when the tornado hit. He took shelter in the bathroom inside the business and said the storm hit without warning.

A Bartow County officer warns Rick Welsh, 63, that a curfew is on as he looks through the remains of his possessions at the Relax Inn in Adairsville.

Albert Marcely, 32, returns to his destroyed mobile home off MLK Drive in Jack Craig's Trailer Park in Adairsville on Wednesday. Marcely said, "Thank God I wasn't here when it hit or I may not have made it."

This was a grocery store.

People with Adairsville Grocery help salvage products from the store after it was damaged by a tornado on Highway 41 Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 30, 2013, in Adairsville, Ga. Locals said the storm hit around 11:30am.

A destroyed trailer on Howard Road in Adairsville.

People with Adairsville Grocery help salvage products from the store after it was damaged by a tornado on Highway 41 Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville, Ga. Locals said the storm hit around 11:30am. JASON GETZ / JGETZ@AJC.COM

January 30, 2013 - Adairsville, Ga: Emergency crews use a front end loader to clear Martin Luther King Jr. Drive following a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville, Ga., January 30, 2013. JASON GETZ / JGETZ@AJC.COM

January 30, 2013 - Adairsville, Ga: Emergency crews work on clearing a street below a tree that has pieces of a metal trapped in its branches following a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville, Ga., January 30, 2013. JASON GETZ / JGETZ@AJC.COM

Densie Christian, center, looks over her parents' backyard as a large tree is shown down on Martin Luther King Drive following a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville, Ga., January 30, 2013. Christian said, "We see this in other states but this came home today."

Quintoria Mabala walks by her family's storage building that was damaged by trees on Martin Luther King Drive following a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville, Ga., on Jan.y 30, 2013.

A building with the front collapsed can be seen from the intersection of Princeton Bouldevard and Adairsville Highwayin Adairsville.M

An overturned car is shown after a tornado touched down in Bartow County on Wednesday.

Debris is shown in Adairsville after a tornado touched down.

Wayne Moore takes a picture as his wife Sherry Moore tries to get in their damaged home Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville.

Emergency crews work on clearing a street.

Sherry Moore tries to save her mother's sawing machine at her home following a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Adairsville on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.

A police officer directs traffic as students walk from their school bus in Adairsville.

Residents in Adairsville clean up after a tornado smashed through town.

Vehicles move slowly on I-75 northbound leaving downtown Atlanta as heavy rain caused lanes of the interstate to flood near Moores Mill Road on Wednesday, January 30, 2013.

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Miguel Fuentes (left) and his girlfriend Iva Collins save their belongs at Relax Inn on Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Adairsville on Wednesday. Collins said she felt lucky she was not in her room when the tornado hit.

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