Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett said the only confirmed casualty was a dog killed by storm debris, but as many as 20 homes may have been hit Wednesday. Neighbors help salvage items from a storm-damaged home in the Roundaway community near Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. James Overton posted this photo on Twitter with this caption: “Holly Springs tornado facing south on highway 7 at O’Reilly’s”, December 23, 2015.
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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) – Bobby Watkins and his wife huddled beneath their old oak dining table for shelter as storm winds roaring outside their MS home tossed a barn onto their truck outside, tore the steeple off a nearby church and reduced a neighboring building to rubble.
Her death was one of at least six weather-related fatalities in the US on Wednesday.
The agency says two other people – a 70-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman – were killed in Perry County, about 85 miles southwest of Nashville.
‘If you go through these neighborhoods, there are a lot of people very proud of what they’ve put out and they’ve got stuff everywhere – all these ornaments and deer and everything else, ‘ Clements said.
Others were less fortunate.
The Storm Prediction Center said at least 14 tornadoes hit MS on Wednesday, but it was a single twister that did most of the damage.
“Deborah and I are deeply saddened to hear of the lives that were lost during today’s tornado outbreak”, he said. “Suit up, try to cheer people up, and try to make them feel a little better with Christmas coming around”. From Alabama to NY, much of the country felt unusually warm temperatures in the 70s on Christmas Eve.
Officials in Pope County say an 18-year-old woman is dead after a tree fell on her home during Wednesday’s storms. In Atkins, Arkansas, 18-year-old Michael Remus was killed when a tree crashed into the bedroom she was sharing with her 18-month-old sister.
At least 40 people across six Mississippi counties were injured in the storms, said Greg Flynn with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
“We are seeing more than 100 million people will be traveling overall”, Robert Sinclair, a spokesman for AAA, told NBC News.
“There are some houses that were blown away”, said May Wednesday, who runs the Como Inn.
“When we have something this traumatic happen, whether it’s a death like in the case of this young person or the devastation to the homes of all of these people right here on Christmas Eve, it’s very, very hard to deal with”. Johnson planned on staying with relatives Wednesday night and said no one inside the house was injured.
Along Mississippi Highway 7 close to Johnson’s house, headlights from passing cars illuminated downed tree limbs, slabs of plasterboard and wooden beams that had been turned into projectiles when the tornado passed.
The Associated Press reported that emergency management says trees and power lines are downed throughout the county.
Sean Wagner, an amateur storm chaser, shot video of a tornado in Holly Springs and said he had to warn two families that had stopped under an overpass.
Television images showed that the tornado appeared to be on the ground for more than 10 minutes, with authorities rushing to close roads and get people out if the violent weather system’s path. “I told them to leave because if I was there as a storm chaser, it wasn’t safe”, he said.
Four people in Benton County and two in Marshall County also died, and more people are missing.
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“This is definitely a higher-end threat than your typical baseline severe weather event”, National Weather Service meteorologist Daniel Lamb said earlier in the day.
