So many of us interpreted Bob Dylan’s declaration that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” as a ...

The July 25, 2000, tornado took one life while damaging 340 homes and several businesses on a 500-foot-wide, two-mile-long path in Granite Falls. Property damage was estimated at $20 million.

This is the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. It killed 695 people and injured 2,027 others. It destroyed nearly every town it crossed, with a total of 15,000 homes wiped out. The damage dealt would ...