severe storm damage and homeowners insurance

Mother Nature continues to flex her deadly muscles in 2011, this time in the form of 362 tornadoes that ravaged seven Southern states in April, killing more than 300 people, injuring thousands more, leveling entire neighborhoods and turning even newer, well-built homes into piles of rubble. Weather authorities are calling it the second worst natural disaster in this country, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the deadliest U.S. tornado in 37 years. Insured losses are…