coming over the top of us and the whole house started to shake and the windows busting out. then it was gone. just like that. it was gone. >> reporter: the storm wiped out homes, barns, businesses and lives and killing at least three 689 a . it took out the town's fire department. >> what get ms me is that it wis out one house and not the next one across the street. this is hard to see people standing on their porches crying and going through stuff. the stuff that you never think that you will see. >> reporter: emergency officials say that a dozen people were injured in cincinnati and surrounding areas and others were damaged by downed powerlines. three people were killed in missouri when the same system plowed into the southern and central part of that state. in suburban st. louis as it pulverized this area, this man