A devastating tornado has struck north-central Alabama, continuing the latest wave of extreme weather that has hit the South and Midwest during Christmas week.
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Ruthie Green went door-to-door 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.
Alabama tornado adds to Christmas storm woes
Authorities confirmed seven deaths in MS , including a 7-year-old boy who was in a auto that was swept up and tossed by a storm. Governor Robert Bentley also declared a state of emergency across Alabama on Friday to deal with the effects of the storm.
A flash flood watch has been issued for parts of Tennessee following storms that have pounded the Southeast this week.
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With about 100 million Americans expected to travel over the Christmas holiday, a lot of them by auto, the National Weather Service forecast isolated severe thunderstorms from the mid-Atlantic region to the Gulf Coast and record warmth in NY.
Van Rayford, who’s now in a hotel with his kids and six of his grandchildren, says he’s thankful the Swanns and others sacrificed their Christmas so that his family could have one.
Six fatalities were confirmed in Tennessee, including three people found dead on Thursday in a vehicle submerged in a creek, according to the fire department in Columbia, Tennessee.
It is not yet known if people have been injured or killed.
There have been reports of flooding in counties throughout Alabama.
In Georgia, a road was washed out in Fayetteville Friday, trapping around 60 people either inside or out of their homes, NBC station WXIA reported. At least 15 people have died as the outbreak of severe weather trenched through Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jody Aaron said the twister was confirmed to have touched down in the southwestern portion of town at about 5pm, adding, “There does appear to be some significant damage”. In a statement released by the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, the victims were a 19-year-old female and two 22-year-old males.
Perkins’ neighbors weren’t as fortunate.
Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their MS home. “This is where I used to live and it’s all gone”, she told CBS News.
Mona Ables, 43, was driving home when the storm hit.
The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have been thrashing the southeastern US since Wednesday, bringing record rainfalls in some areas.
“You kind of stop and realize what Christmas is all about”, Perkins said.
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Birmingham firefighters work at the scene after a tornado touched down.
