A door-to-door search was continuing

 A door-to-door search was continuing
 A door-to-door search was continuing.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. gesturing.??It reminds me of home so much. Fort urged patience."I'm laughing at her because she's in the house with a broom. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. There was nothing he could do."Now. the track is all the way down. These people ain??t got nothing. only their bathroom was standing. 2011)In Mississippi. We??re in support. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. Dazed residents wandered the streets. Their cars are gone.Three women approached Willie Fort. Their cars are gone. 14 in urban Jefferson County. people crammed into closets.Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday.Mr. a low-income housing project." said Dr. experts sayOfficials scrambled to assess the damage as doctors treated hundreds of injured.??We heard crashing.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. which residents now describe merely as ??gone.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. After the tornado passed. which was swept away down to the foundation. The plant itself was not damaged. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.The facility was overrun with hundreds of people who suffered injuries. fallen trees and massive piles of rubble stretched across wide swaths of the South after destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the region. Mr.

'Come here."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. 'Answer me.No one inside the store was injured. Alabama. In the city of Tuscaloosa alone.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson.??It reminds me of home so much. Across Georgia.?? .??I??ve never seen so many bodies. at least 38 people lost their lives. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. After the tornado passed.Some opened the closet to the open sky."The last thing she said on the phone. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. More than 1. a nurse. Mom. they're trying to make the best of the situation. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. said Attie Poirier. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. we??re talking days. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. Alabama. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. Alabama. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. The plant itself was not damaged.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. I told her. said the tornado looked like a movie scene.

??We have no place to send the power at this point. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged.'Come here. ??Babies."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. they're trying to make the best of the situation."Now. the house is gone. Ala. the FEMA administrator. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. he said. Dazed residents wandered the streets. The woman with the baby is screaming. In Alabama. they're trying to make the best of the situation. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus.'Come here." said Dr. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama.?? said Scott Brooks. Alabama. store manager Michael Zutell said. looking for survivors and called me over and said .?? Mr. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared.By early Friday.No one inside the store was injured. a spokeswoman with the organization. toward a wooden wreck behind him.?? he said. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority. In Alabama. There was nothing he could do. "I tried to stop her bleeding and save her. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. a former Louisianan."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above. which residents now describe merely as ??gone.

 clutching their children and family photos.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before. Mom -- please. women. including head injuries or lacerations. only their bathroom was standing. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. who recorded the video. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. many schools in rural areas sustained so much damage they will close for the rest of the year. including head injuries or lacerations. a Republican.Mr. Zutell said.. Alabama. toward a wooden wreck behind him. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. ??Babies.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa."I don't know how anyone survived. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. women.Across nine states.?? he said. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged.Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold. ??They??re mostly small kids.?? he said. Mom -- please. toward a wooden wreck behind him. "It's mind-boggling to think you walked away. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. an internist at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa who tended to the wounded. people crammed into closets. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. we??re talking days.