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Posted: Friday, March 2, 2012 11:56 pm | Updated: 2:14 am, Sat Mar 3, 2012.

Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what was once there. As night fell, dazed residents shuffled through town, some looking for relatives, while rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors. Without power, the only light in town came from cars that crawled down the streets.

From the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, the storms touched nearly all walks of life. A fire station was flattened. Roofs were ripped off schools. A prison fence was knocked down and scores of homes and businesses were destroyed. At least 28 people were killed, including 14 in Indiana and 12 in Kentucky, and dozens of others were hurt in the second deadly tornado outbreak this week.

It wasn't immediately clear how many people were missing.

The threat of tornadoes was expected to last until late Friday for parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. Forecasters at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center said the massive band of storms put 10 million people at high risk of dangerous weather.

"We knew this was coming. We were watching the weather like everyone else," said Clark County, Ind., Sheriff Danny Rodden. "This was the worst case scenario. There's no way you can prepare for something like this."

In Henryville, the scene was eerie and somewhat chaotic. Cell phones and landlines were not working. Hundreds of firefighters and police zipped around town. Power lines were down and cars were flipped over. People walked down the street with shopping carts full of water and food, handing it out to whoever was in need.

Terry Brishaber said his uncle's mobile home was gone.

"I don't see any remnants. I don't know where it's at," he said.

Aerial footage from a TV news helicopter flying over Henryville showed numerous wrecked houses, some with their roofs torn off and many surrounded by debris. The video shot by WLKY in Louisville, Ky., also showed a mangled school bus protruding from the side of a one-story building and dozens of overturned semis strewn around the smashed remains of a truck stop.

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AUSTIN - Case McCoy talked first.

If he'd been at any other team's spring practice, or played any other position, or been at Texas at just about any time other than the second decade of the third millennium, that information would have been wholly insignificant.

But in this place, at this position, and in this time, there are no meaningless details. When McCoy beat teammate David Ash into the interview room after a Longhorns workout this week, it might have just been because he had a study hall to attend or was quicker in the shower.

In a quarterback controversy like the Longhorns have created, however, nothing seems so innocuous. At UT, where every public move is deliberated, putting McCoy in front of the cameras before Ash easily could've been intended as another subtle reminder that despite the overwhelming perception, McCoy is no backup.

And then McCoy's words, which sounded an awful lot like his head coach's, reiterated the same message.

"Nothing's been given to anyone," McCoy said.

Because UT's quarterbacks give interviews so rarely and because we're now in the second year of Mack Brown's staff's continual evasiveness about committing to one or another, each of McCoy's words carried weight. And it wasn't much of a stretch to assume "anyone" meant "Ash."

Still no hint

Ever since the sixth game of last season, when Ash played the entirety of a loss to Oklahoma State, the vast majority of evidence has pointed to Brown and offensive play-caller Bryan Harsin believing in Ash as their quarterback of the future. He started six of UT's last eight games, including the Holiday Bowl, where he was named the most outstanding offensive player.

But at no point has either Brown or Harsin acknowledged that Ash is even the slightest bit ahead of McCoy. When pressed repeatedly about the issue last week, Brown spent an hour employing the verbal contortionism of a politician trying to avoid a debate question.

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Manchester United striker Michael Owen is at the focal point of Friday's round-up, with the 32-year-old reacting angrily to coverage of his England criticism in the British press.

The former Liverpool and Real Madrid man was left fuming after newspapers printed his Tweets out of context following the Three Lions' 3-2 loss at home to the Netherlands.

Elsewhere Tottenham's Tom Huddlestone keeps us up to date with his injury progress, and on-loan QPR striker Federico Macheda reveals a guilty pleasure.

Once again, Goal.com has wrapped up the best of the best from the past 24 hours in the world of Twitter.

"Stitches being taken out!! Looooong 2weeks since the ankle surgery"

Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone kicks us off, with a quick update on his injury status after undergoing surgery that will keep him out for the rest of the season.

"Typical of the British Media. Invent a quote to create a storm and then fill the paper with experts slamming me for things I never said.

"By doing so, they get to fill their paper for a couple of days and in doing so short change their readers with a total 'non story'.

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Selling a home can be one of the most significant financial steps in a person's life. Sure, buying a home is up there too, but actually determining how to best prepare for and rid oneself of a home in the most economically efficient manner, can take a lot of workand even then, it doesn't always pan out (take it from me, I've been there).

I learned a heck of a lot when we recently sold our home during what has been one of the worst real estate markets in history. Here are some of the rules I developed during the process and to which I plan to adhere to more strictly next time.

Start Home Sale Preparations Well in Advance

We began preparing our home for sale multiple months in advance to ever putting it on the market. We painted rooms, cleaned, downsized, and packed up personal items, and decluttered, and then we had our real estate agent come over to see what other steps we should take in the preparation process.

We also ended up fixing broken floor tiles, adding some window treatments and new blinds, replacing the garage roof and back porch awning, and making similar repairs and adjustments to our home in order to make it more presentable in the months prior to putting it on the market.

Choose a Price Point Carefully

We really messed up on this one when we put our home up for sale. Our mistake now makes it one of the most highly valued rules on my list. We priced our home too high initially, and we never recovered from the mistake, which in my opinion not only cost us a quicker sale, but tens of thousands of dollars in the process.

Because we didn't price our home correctly for the market that we were in, we were constantly trying to make up the difference as the market continued to drop.

Consider Your Real Estate Agent Wisely

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First Person: Selling Our Home in One of the Worst Real Estate Markets in History