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Storms continue to batter United States south
The National Weather Service reported Thursday that “the storm system that produced the severe weather outbreak… has diminished in strength”.
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Ruthie Green went door-to-door in a coat and a bicycle helmet to check on neighbours after the storm and swept debris from her front porch as more emergency responders arrived in the neighbourhood. Possible tornado damage was also reported near Indianapolis, Indiana. “I just laid down and just kept praying”. “Rolled right over me. And I don t know why I m still standing here talking to you”.
Four people died in Benton County, two in Marshall County and one in Tippah County, authorities said.
“I got out of my auto 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”. Watkins said Thursday as the couple took a Christmas Eve stroll amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Mississippi.
“The devastation is just unreal”, Master Sergeant Ray Hall, a spokesman for the Mississippi Highway Patrol, told CNN.
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. The driver of a tractor-trailer suffered minor injuries when the storm blew his rig over. There’s nothing left.” “We were in the house. Another looked to be a total loss.
Mr Goodwin said he managed to climb back into his house to rescue some Christmas presents after it was knocked off its foundations, but that two of his neighbours had been killed.
Emergency crews in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee were searching for several people reported missing.
Pastor Melvin Howard of the Mount Olive Full Gospel Church said he came rushing to the area of Jefferson Avenue and 50th Street in Birmingham, Alabama, when he heard the storm hit.
A tornado touched down near Birmingham, Alabama, Friday afternoon and destroyed several houses, though no one was killed. Bryant said seven people were killed and one person was missing.
“She was laying in bed with her 18-month-old sister”. The baby was hospitalized.
Heavy damage was inflicted in the south, causing seven deaths in MS alone, according to the state’s Emergency Management Agency.
Cold and snow were forecast on Christmas Day for much of the US West, including temperatures in the teens in Montana and snow likely in Washington, Oregon, northern California and Nevada.
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Meanwhile, in parts of Georgia, including Atlanta, a flood watch was posted through Friday evening. The region has been soaked by days of rain. It may be recalled that past year MS was also hit by twisters.