The worst seems to be in northern MS where many people are spending their Christmas cleaning up and helping the newly homeless.
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At least 11 people were killed in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas as storms mixed with unseasonably warm weather spawned Christmastime tornadoes from Arkansas to MI. Forecasters called the situation “life-threatening” and said that mobile homes “will be destroyed”.
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Goodwin’s neighbors weren’t so fortunate. One person is unaccounted for in the state. “Driving around the area, you can see that it’s total devastation”, Barineau said.
14 people are dead in the south after a Christmas Eve tornado left homes and businesses a mess of twisted rubble.
Flood warnings and advisories also remained in effect in parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and other areas in the southeast.
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.
But that didn’t stop some from spending their Christmas giving rather than receiving.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Georgia counterpart Nathan Deal have also declared states of emergency in the affected counties.
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.
In Atkins, Arkansas, 18-year-old Michaela Remus was killed when a tree crashed into the bedroom she was sharing with her 18-month-old sister.
Mulestor Johnson, 67, told the AP that a brutal storm tore his Holly Springs house from its foundation Wednesday.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced Saturday that he would visit weather-damaged areas in Coffee County.
Seven people died in MS and six others were killed in Tennessee as Southern and Midwest states bore the brunt of the violent storms.
An 18-year-old woman was killed in Pope County, Ark., after a tree fell on her home during high winds, KTHV-TV reported.
Benton County Sheriff A.A. McMullen said Thursday that the four people killed in his area were 69-year-old Max Croxton and his wife, 67-year-old Ellen Croxton, both of Faulkner; 67-year-old William E. Crawford, of Lamar; and 58-year-old Patricia G. Williams, of Lamar. Davis was injured after his house was destroyed when the tornado came through the community.
Police in Birmingham, Alabama, say people are trapped in houses along Jefferson Avenue Southwest, where a tornado touch down earlier Friday evening.
The state’s emergency management director, Gary Rogers, told CNN affiliate WZTV that two other people are missing.
Close by, in Benton County, Mississippi, two people died and at least two were missing.
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The South normally witness peak tornado season in the spring, but experts said that such storms can happen at any time.
