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Severe storms kill 6 in Tennessee
Ruthie Green went door-to-door in her Alabama neighborhood in a coat and a bicycle helmet to check on neighbors after the storm and swept debris from her front porch as more emergency responders arrived in the neighborhood. Pike County authorities asked drivers to stay off roads until noon Friday.
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Incoming flights to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were delayed for up to two hours because of the weather, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Uprooted trees lay across yards as family and friends gather to offer assistance and support to victims of a tornado that hit Holly Springs, Miss.
Mona Ables, 43, was driving home when the storm hit.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) confirmed seven of the deaths from the severe weather that began moving through the state early Wednesday morning, which led Mississippi governor Phil Bryant to declare a state of emergency for affected areas.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said that it had received reports of an eighth death in that state due to this week’s severe weather. Two died in a home nearby.
In the eastern United States, one of the warmest Christmas Eve’s on record unfolded as temperatures soared 15-35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. One person is unaccounted for in the state. Two were unaccounted for, according to Master Sgt. Ray Hall with the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The storms, feeding on unseasonable warm air, left a trail of destruction in rural communities from IL to Alabama.
The American Red Cross of North Mississippi’s disaster program manager, Nicholas Garbacz (GAR-bach), says members of the Marine Corps helped turn the Eddie Smith Multi-Purpose Center in Holly Springs into a substitute Santa’s Workshop.
Tornado watches remained in effect from southern MS to central Indiana.
MS was worst hit, with seven people dead, while six others were killed in Tennessee.
Residents of northern MS and across the Southeast were beginning to take stock after fierce storms that killed at least six across the region whipped through.
He says the wind tore the back of his house from its foundation and multiple sheds were missing afterward. His belongings were strewn everywhere, and trees had crashed through trucks on his property, but no one was hurt.
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Among the dead in MS was a boy of seven after one particularly brutal storm picked up and tossed the vehicle he was travelling in, fire chief Kenny Holbrook told reporters in the town of Holly Springs, where thousands greeted Christmas Day without power.