Americus, Ga. Hospital Struck by Tornado

Sumter Regional Hospital is where I was born 41 years ago. Story from CNN:

When nurse Dana Rylander arrived for work at Sumter Regional Hospital on Friday, she was stunned.
She had no idea that a tornado had ripped through Americus, Georgia, the night before -- killing two people, shredding parts of the hospital, tossing cars on top of each other and severely damaging more than 200 homes in this town of 17,000.
"It's gone. It's just gone," she said, looking up at the hospital where dozens of windows were blown out, part of its façade sheared off and glass scattered everywhere.
At the hospital's entrance, a 2-by-4 was implanted in a cinder block wall. Large rocks that had been used to help drainage on the roof were hurled like baseballs, smashing through cars in the parking lot.

My brother, who still lives in Americus woke me up at 5:30 AM. He said he was working while this was going on and knew nothing until it was over. He left work at 2:00 AM and dodged limbs and at least one tree in the road. His family was safe, but said they hid in the closet until the tornado had passed. His wife described the whole house shaking and the family cats beat them to the closet.