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Christmastime tornadoes ravage US South, killing at least 11

The good news is that Santa Clause is not expected to be delayed by the wild weather.

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Mulester Johnson, 67, said he and relatives were inside his house in Holly Springs when the storm hit.


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“I have neighbors, but I don’t know where they’re at because there’s nothing where their houses used to be”, said Cedric Cannon, 50, as he stood alone near an American Red Cross relief truck in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart.


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Others were less fortunate. Though the risk for severe storms diminished in the south, forecasters warned of a lingering chance of flash flooding, heavy rains and winds. In the worst-hit communities, search parties hunted for missing people and volunteers helped clear debris on a day often reserved for gift wrapping and last-minute shopping. In Tennessee, clobbered by multiple twisters, state Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Flener confirmed two storm-related fatalities in Perry County – one male and one female of undetermined age.

“I figured I’d come down here with my hat”, Shupiery said. “They are the most important thing to me and just being able to see it, it’s the hardest thing to take in but I’ve got one blessing and that’s my family”, Curry said.

Warm weather has been blamed for causing torrential rains and twisters all the way from the Gulf Coast to MI.

At least 14 people were confirmed dead – seven of them in MS, including a 7-year-old boy who perished while riding in a vehicle that was swept up and tossed by storm winds. An 18-year-old Arkansas woman was killed when a tree blew over onto a house and crashed into her bedroom.

About 120 miles east of the tornado, Brandi Holland, a convenience store clerk in Tupelo, Mississippi, said people were reminded of a tornado that damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses in April 2014.

The calendar says it’s almost Christmas, but the damage looks more like spring.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant inspects tornado storm damage to a MDOT facility in Ashland, Miss., Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. Police there said several homes were blown off their foundations.

A mayor in a small MS town says a tornado damaged or destroyed numerous houses just outside the town limits. One was injured in the 18-wheeler.

A large and extremely risky tornado is moving through northwest MS, the National Weather Service said Wednesday evening.

Slabs of metal were tangled in drooping power lines, dangling precariously alongside the road, and the smell of freshly overturned dirt and trees lingered in the air as emergency crews tended to downed power lines.

Joe Sharp told FOX13 he is thankful his mother and brother are alive after a tornado collapsed his home.

“I got out of my auto and told the families they weren’t safe, I showed them my radar, it showed that they were close to the path of the tornado”.

“I was on my way here from Georgia when they called Wednesday”, Faulkner said.

In Benton County, Miss., where at least three deaths occurred and at least two people were missing, crews were searching house-by-house to make sure residents were accounted for.

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center reported at least one and perhaps two cases in which a pair of twisters touched down simultaneously, a rare phenomenon according to meteorologists.

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CBS- At least eight people, including a child, were reported killed and several other people critically injured Wednesday as severe weather threatened almost a third of the country.

Cars and homes lay in ruins in Tuscaloosa Alabama