MS was worst hit, with seven people dead, while six others were killed in Tennessee.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in some parts of the country, but in others it feels more like a typical spring day. Green Christmas wins out this year with record-breaking temperatures making for a holiday that could get Heat Miser singing.
After an EF-1 tornado struck the south Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood, television stations showed pictures of damage including a portion of a roof blown off a veterinary office.
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‘Santa brought us a good one, didn’t he?’ Bobby Watkins said as he and his wife took a walk amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Mississippi, where four people – including a married couple and two neighbours on the same street – were confirmed dead and their homes destroyed. Emergency officials blamed the severe weather for injuring scores of others and destroying dozens of cars, homes and businesses.
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In Coffee County, Alabama, at least 117 homes were substantially flooded and at least two dozen roads were closed.
While the risk of tornadoes is diminishing. the concern now is flash flooding across parts of the southeast and mid-Atlantic with more thunderstorms expected through the Christmas holiday.
A seven-year-old boy was among those killed.
The Columbia Police Department said in a news release that the bodies of three people were found in a auto submerged in a creek Thursday afternoon. 18 people there were transported to the hospital in ambulances with many more injured.
Officials were inviting volunteers to step up or make donations as people returned to their homes to see what was left standing, if anything.
The latest number of weather-related deaths in the South came as the National Weather Service said a tornado touched down near Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday. Two neighbors had died in the storm that swept across the southeastern US earlier this week.
Ms Hunt said she started praying when she heard sheet metal hitting trees.
Meanwhile, much of the Northeast enjoyed balmy weather on Thursday, including NY, which surpassed its record for the warmest Christmas Eve by reaching 71° Fahrenheit (22° Celsius).
The moment she got inside, he said he shut the door and put down the bar.
Barbara Perkins was told Thursday by an insurance agent that her storm-damaged home in Falkner, Mississippi, was a complete loss.
“You kind of stop and realize what Christmas is all about”, Perkins said. Among the victims were a 19-year-old girl and two 22-year-old men.
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He said: “Until they know for sure where those folks are, they’re going to keep looking, because we’ve had in some cases houses levelled, and they’re just not there anymore”. “I never want to hear that again for as long as I live”.
