Max Broderick remembers exactly what he did a year ago Tuesday. He ran down fences, drove through fields and over curbs to get his family out of the way of the historic tornado that tattered Moore, Oklahoma. The dark gray monster that killed 24, including 9 children, was in his rear-view mirror, lathing a 17-mile wound into the landscape that was more than a mile wide in places. Once it was gone, the Brodericks returned to their hometown just south of Oklahoma City. The whirlwind -- an EF5 tornado, the most destructive on the Fujita scale -- had sheared houses, schools, businesses into sticks, bricks and shards that lay jumbled and jagged in the straight-line rows of their subdivision streets.
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Tornado killed 9 children and lathed a 17-mile path into the landscape
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The damage was 1.3 miles wide at its largest point
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The EF5 whirlwind sheared houses, schools, businesses into sticks, bricks and shards
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Deadly, powerful tornadoes come often to that region of the United States
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