Tornado damages Vine City

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Tornado damages Vine City

Tornado's damage on Vine City.

In Vine City, the tornado's damage raged from holes in roofs to mud in homes and trees through windows.

Gabe Harwood (left) and Aurelia Henderson (right) sit outside their damaged Vine City apartment. Henderson watched the storm from her backyard until Harwood helped get her into the closet of their apartment. "This is my best friend," Henderson said. "He saved my life."

Outside, Isabelle Howard (left) and her boyfriend Michael Jinks covered the broken windows on her car with plastic tarp.

Roof debris and insulation cover the stairs and upstairs bedrooms of Jarnes Davis' apartment in Vine City.

Thelma Hamilton, 75, looks at insulation covering her bedroom caused by a tree falling on her house during the Friday storm that hit Vine City.

Light leaks through the damaged roof into the bedroom of Jarnes Davis's apartment in Vine City on Sunday.

Thorin Newell, with Rhino Tree Landscape, scopes the 8-10-ton root ball of an oak tree that fell on a residence in Vine City. e estimated a ballpark figure of $10,000 thousand dollars to remove the fallen tree.

Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church in Vine City shows signs of damage including downed trees and a broken spire after the tornado that swept downtown Atlanta. Some Fulton residents are now eligible for federal aid to repair damaged structures.

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In Vine City, the tornado's damage raged from holes in roofs to mud in homes and trees through windows.

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