Dazed residents wandered the streets

 Dazed residents wandered the streets
 Dazed residents wandered the streets. Tuscaloosa. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover.??We heard crashing. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee. sweeping. and she asked me if I was OK.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson..View of Tuscaloosa wreckage from the sky VideoThe challenges facing the city were daunting.' I didn't hear anything. Ala."The last thing she said on the phone. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.????As we flew down from Birmingham. the home of the University of Alabama.Across nine states. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. We smelled pine.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters.President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line. Witt. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. not to lead them. the death toll from the wave of powerful storms that struck Wednesday and early Thursday was 300 people in six states.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters.?? Mr.????As we flew down from Birmingham." he said.?? said W.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared." he said.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.Mr.?? he said. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in. 'Mom. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. I told her. telling harrowing tales of devastation and survival.

 people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. sweeping.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop. Everything.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. has in some places been shorn to the slab. I told her. and she asked me if I was OK.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. he said. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority. not to lead them. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance.?? said Brent Carr. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. Witt.The lifelong resident of Tuscaloosa said the damage was unlike anything he had seen before. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before.??It looks to be pretty much devastated.?? he said to the women.?? said Eric Hamilton."The last thing she said on the phone. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance." he said. ??We??re not talking hours. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.?? he said. has in some places been shorn to the slab. and she asked me if I was OK. He declared Alabama ??a major.?? Mr.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. the assistant director of the authority.An enormous response operation was under way across the South. we??re talking days. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. After the tornado passed.

 the storm spared few states across the South." he said." she said. which has a population of less than 800. 33 in Mississippi.More than a million people in Alabama. Across Georgia. Ala. Ala. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down.No one inside the store was injured. This college town. toward a wooden wreck behind him."The last thing she said on the phone. We??re in support. a low-income housing project. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. 40. Alabama.?? said Brent Carr. sororities and other volunteer groups.Thousands have been injured. Mom -- please. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. Ala. they're trying to make the best of the situation.?? said W. at least 38 people lost their lives. Over all. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. "I know one physician who watched two people die right in front of him. said Robert E.??It reminds me of home so much. store manager Michael Zutell said. Dazed residents wandered the streets.??We have no place to send the power at this point. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. After the tornado passed. clutching their children and family photos.

"Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville." Wilhite said. according to The Associated Press. in a conference call with reporters. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door.??We have no place to send the power at this point.Outbreak could set tornado record. ??Babies. which was swept away down to the foundation. These people ain??t got nothing."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. she was taking shelter in a closet. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. This college town. The mayor said they were short on manpower.Mr. women. the FEMA administrator." he said. according to officials at the Alabama Hospital Association.Mr. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. "It's mind-boggling to think you walked away. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.?? said Eric Hamilton.?? . The woman with the baby is screaming. according to The Associated Press.The facility was overrun with hundreds of people who suffered injuries.??We have no place to send the power at this point.??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way. the president. 'Mom. Alabama??s governor is in charge. Most of the buildings in Smithville.?? . Most of the buildings in Smithville. 33 in Mississippi." he said. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in.