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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - When she awoke Saturday, Andrea McLaren found that a stretch of the eastern New Mexico city she calls home had been obliterated by a tornado that flattened houses, snapped telephone poles and even heaved a trailer through a bowling alley.
The tornado was one of 16 that moved through communities along the New Mexico-Texas border late Friday and early Saturday, leaving two people critically injured. Residents said Saturday that the cleanup effort could take months.
"Pretty much everything was pushed together like toy cars," McLaren said by telephone from Clovis, N.M. "We've been picking up debris the whole day. ... Clean up and assess the damage, that's all we can do."
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