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CNN CNN Newsroom May 19, 2013 23:02:00

damage, let's talk about the severity of these particular storms. you were saying earlier about the -- what did you say, it was 140 mile an hour winds that would do damage like this, rip these trees, shred these trees like this? >> yeah. you never can put a certain number. you can't say it's 147.2 miles per hour. there really isn't such a thing you do a range. this range is somewhere in the ef-3 category. an ef-1 on the fujita scale, enhanced fujita, that's why we have to use the "e" in front of it. there's 0-5. zero takes a couple shingles, knocks off a couple limbs. a 2 will probably take off the roof structure and couple of 4 x 8 pieces of plywood. 3, removes the trusses like we see here. part of that roof is completely gone. 4 removes some of the outside walls. if you get to a 5, there are no walls left at all. we're not 5. there are walls left. some of the outside walls are

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