In Tennessee, the storm killed at least three.
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At least 14 people were killed during a tornado outbreak and severe weather that swept across Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas in the past two days.
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The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said dozens of people in the state were being treated for injuries.
Rusty Russell, 34, a friend of Remus’, told NBC News that “she is one of those people that you would never hear a bad word about her. Just a true joy to be around”.
In Arkansas, an 18-year-old woman was killed Wednesday morning when a tree fell through the roof of her house in Atkins.
“Dozens more were injured, some seriously”, he said.
“We’re just there to salvage what we can salvage”, Howard said.
Red Cross volunteers were working in MS and Tennessee Christmas Eve, WREG, Memphis, Tennessee, reported.
On Friday, relatives helped Daisy and Charles Johnson clean up after the storm flattened their Benton County house. The people were seen moving outside their homes with their belongings.
In the Northeast, where warmer weather spared drivers the crippling delays wrought by winter storms, traffic was heavy, with more rain expected until Thursday in and around NY. The National Weather Service stated it might have been on the bottom 150 miles.
“My ears are still ringing”, Tony Goodwin said Thursday as he recounted how he and seven family members ran for a homemade storm shelter right before a tornado hit Perry County, Tenn. The greatest threat for tornadoes, damaging wind – some of which could be hurricane force – and occasional hail was for areas from eastern Arkansas and northern MS to extreme southern IL, the prediction center said. The line of springlike storms continued marching east Thursday, dumping torrential rain that flooded roads in Alabama and caused a mudslide in the mountains of Georgia.
The national Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma had released a “particularly risky situation” warning for the first time since June 2014 when two massive tornadoes destroyed a rural Nebraska town, killing two people.
Emergency officials say six people have been confirmed dead in MS while searches continue for people missing in communities with severe storm damage.
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Lt. Sean Edwards, a Birmingham police spokesman, said trees are down and people were trapped inside damaged houses, adding that several people were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, but further details were not immediately available. His home was a total loss.
