Emergency officials in Tennessee anxious that powerful winds could turn holiday yard decorations into projectiles, the same way gusts can fling patio furniture in springtime storms, said Marty Clements, director of the Madison County Emergency Management Agency in Jackson, the state’s largest city between Memphis and Nashville.
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“They’re opening all our tornado shelters because they say there’s an 80 percent chance of a tornado today”, Holland said.
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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”. Watkins said Thursday as the couple took a Christmas Eve stroll amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Mississippi.
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Thirteen counties in Tennessee suffered severe damage, with a post office destroyed and a state highway washed out, officials said. Crawford and Williams were neighbors on the same street. Four other people in the house, including an 18-month-old, survived.
Phil Bryant said on Thursday that there were seven deaths in the state. Two were in Marshall County, and the other was in Tippah County.
“I got out of my vehicle 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”. Portions of southeast Alabama received rainfall that totaled 10 inches or more.
Mona Ables, 43, was driving home when the storm hit.
According to airline tracker FlightAware.com, more than 2,700 USA flights were delayed as of Thursday afternoon, and almost 750 had been canceled.
“Periods of coastal rain and heavy mountain snow can be expected, with the greatest amounts likely over the Cascades and northern and central Rockies, where amounts in excess of one foot are likely at the highest elevations”, the weather service said.
In Holly Springs, Mississippi, where a tornado caused significant damage, the Holly Springs Multipurpose Center and the Salvation Army were also collecting donations. Exactly a year ago, twisters hit MS, killing five people and injuring dozens.
“We’re just there to salvage what we can salvage”, he said.
Several people were killed in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas as spring-like storms mixed with unseasonably warm weather spawned rare Christmastime tornadoes in the South.
The agency says this increases the number of deaths to eight, and the number of missing persons to two. Seven people died in MS and one person was killed in Arkansas. The old record, 72 degrees, was set in 1970.
The Alabama tornado is the latest development in an ongoing series of storms that has hammered the South during Christmas week.
The MEMA also confirmed at least 40 injuries in the state.
House-by-house searches are being conducted amid fears more casualties will be discovered.
On Wednesday, two days before Christmas, the South woke up to tornado warnings and damage. More than 3,500 power outages were reported throughout the state.
So far, the storms have caused widespread damage to more than 100 homes and businesses in Mississippi.
Seven people died in MS, authorities confirmed, including a 7-year-old boy who was in a vehicle that was swept up by the strong storm.
Volunteers help with clean up at Calvary Baptist Church following a… The wind tore the back of his house from its foundation and multiple sheds were missing afterward, he said. His belongings were strewn everywhere, and trees had crashed through trucks on his property, but no one was hurt.
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Some Mississippi residents spent their Christmas giving rather than receiving this year.
