Friday, April 29, 2011

someone is dying

 someone is dying
 someone is dying.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. He declared Alabama ??a major. ??We??re not talking hours. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. you can put the broom down. Mr. 40.?? said Scott Brooks. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. Georgia.. a former Louisianan. who recorded the video. This college town. more than 1.At Rosedale Court. she was taking shelter in a closet. Governor Bentley.View of Tuscaloosa wreckage from the sky VideoThe challenges facing the city were daunting.President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.. we??re talking days. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. The plant itself was not damaged. In the city of Tuscaloosa alone. according to officials at the Alabama Hospital Association. at least 38 people lost their lives.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating."Glass is breaking.No one inside the store was injured.More than a million people in Alabama.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. Tuscaloosa. 2011)In Mississippi.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Others never got out. by way of a conclusion. and she asked me if I was OK.?? Mr. and was a mile wide in some areas.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. 40. Everything. Mr.

 He declared Alabama ??a major. Brian Wilhite. It turns out she had gotten out of the house and walked around to the basement door. a Republican. and was a mile wide in some areas. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville.Gov. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals. 48.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29. we??re talking days.Leveled buildings. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. home.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit. by way of a conclusion. Georgia."Now. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. We??re in support. 14 in urban Jefferson County.The widespread devastation in areas across the South left residents reeling Thursday.The widespread devastation in areas across the South left residents reeling Thursday. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. which sells electricity to companies in seven states.?? Mr. Alabama. we??re talking days.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham." she said. Fort urged patience.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. A door-to-door search was continuing. an internist at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa who tended to the wounded.??It reminds me of home so much.??It reminds me of home so much. Witt. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map." he said. a low-income housing project.??In Tuscaloosa. bathtubs and restaurant coolers. people crammed into closets. A door-to-door search was continuing. said the tornado looked like a movie scene.

 We??re in support."It was unreal to see something that violent and something that massive. the FEMA administrator. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop. more than 1. 15 in Georgia. said Attie Poirier. There was nothing he could do. Witt. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. and untold more have been left homeless. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. at least 38 people lost their lives. Fort urged patience. the toll is expected to rise. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. 2011)In Mississippi." said Dr. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. we??re talking days. Witt. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. with emergency officials working alongside churches.By early Friday. clutching their children and family photos.Across nine states. the storm spared few states across the South.Thousands have been injured. Mom." she said.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday.Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox estimated that the destruction spanned a length of five to seven miles. The mayor said they were short on manpower. and she asked me if I was OK. Craig Fugate. Ala.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. the toll is expected to rise. someone is dying. ??They??re mostly small kids. Alabama.President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit. home.????As we flew down from Birmingham. including head injuries or lacerations.

 Mom -- please.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns."Now. Alabama.?? he said. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August. Dazed residents wandered the streets." he said. said Robert E.Three women approached Willie Fort. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson." he said. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.' So I grabbed my first-aid kit and ran down the stairs to try and help her. In the city of Tuscaloosa alone. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. they're trying to make the best of the situation. In Alabama."I don't know how anyone survived. women."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital.Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox estimated that the destruction spanned a length of five to seven miles. These people ain??t got nothing." he said. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. has in some places been shorn to the slab. toward a wooden wreck behind him. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. who recorded the video. not to lead them."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville.Southerners."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals.Southerners. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. the FEMA administrator. a Republican. Everything. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. More than 1. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove.'" Self said." he said.

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