An EMS worker assists an employee from the Umami Sushi restaurant to safety after a tornado left several businesses in ruins on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Sanford, N.C. A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs left at least 40 people dead on a rampage that stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia. Emergency crews searched for victims in hard-hit swaths of North Carolina, where 62 tornadoes were reported from the worst spring storm in two decades to hit the state. (AP Photo/The Sanford Herald, Wesley Beeson)
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