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.
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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.
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Emergency crews on Thursday were assessing damage after a risky storm system packing strong winds and tornadoes tore through the southern and central United States, killing at least six people and leaving several others reported missing. At least seven homes were destroyed, according to Coahoma County Emergency Management. She started praying when she heard sheet metal hitting trees.
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Storms extending from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast caused hundreds of flight delays for travelers trying to get home for Christmas.
“We probably won’t know anything until daylight comes”, she said.
One of the storms hit Bellevue, Mississippi, and damaged 10 to 15 homes.
A state of emergency has been declared by the MS governor.
Search teams combed damaged homes and businesses for people still missing, a hunt made complicated because so many had left for the holidays.
In Linden, Tennessee, Chris Shupiery wore a Santa hat as he cut fallen trees with a chainsaw not far from a home in which two people died in the storm.
Seven people were killed by more than a dozen tornadoes that ripped through Mississippi.
The threat of severe weather just before Christmas is unusual, but not unprecedented, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the national Storm Prediction Center. The boy was in a auto with his family near Holly Springs when a tornado came through the area.
Despite being newly homeless, Perkins said the tragedy helped her “stop and realize what Christmas is all about”.
Police in Birmingham, Alabama, say people are trapped in houses along Jefferson Avenue Southwest, where a tornado touch down earlier Friday evening.
Among the dead in MS was a boy of seven after one particularly brutal storm picked up and tossed the auto he was travelling in, fire chief Kenny Holbrook told reporters in the town of Holly Springs, where thousands greeted Christmas Day without power.
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On Friday, parts of MS remained under a flood warning. His belongings were strewn everywhere, and trees had crashed through trucks on his property, but no one was hurt.
