Grist: If I were to tell you this is a story about a tornado in Kansas, it would probably bring to mind a certain doe-eyed girl and her little dog. Well, sometimes tornadoes transport girls and their adorable pets to magical lands. Other times they level entire towns.
That is what happened the night of May 4, 2007, when an EF-5 tornado (for non-Kansans, thats a really freaking big - the biggest, in fact) nearly two miles wide hit the town of Greensburg, a farming community in south-central Kansas. Almost...