A man sits in the rubbles of a demolished house on August 5, 2008 in a Hautmont district after a freak tornado ripped through towns in northern France late August 3 killing three people and injuring nine. Packing violent winds and lashing rain, the tornado carved across a 10-kilometre (six-mile) swathe late Sunday, destroying some 40 homes in the space of minutes in Hautmont, the worst-hit of the four towns on its path. AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS LO PRESTI (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS LO PRESTI/AFP/Getty Images)
