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Patty Jones was evacuated from her apartment because of a gas leak and walked around Wadena before taking shelter at the local armory. "It's terrible. It's whacked out. Nothing's left in one part of town," Jones said. In Almora, Mabel Wangerin said she heard her bedroom windows rattle as the storm came through, then watched her quilt fly off the bed and out the window. "I was over by the window and prayed and prayed," Wangerin said. The violent weather wasn't confined to the northwest part of the state. The National Weather Service said twisters also were spotted in central and southern Minnesota. Albert Lea, near the Iowa border, was particularly hard-hit. KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, reported that pigs from a 2,500-head farm were roaming around the area and a few carcasses were strewn about after a tornado struck. The TV station said the pigs were taken away in trucks, with neighbors helping round them up. So many power lines were down that the Minnesota Department of Transportation said it had closed a section of Highway 251 through Freeborn County until at least midmorning Friday. Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state's emergency management director, Kris Eide, planned to visit the Wadena and Albert Lea areas Friday to meet with local officials and survey the damage.
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