Tornadoes in the South; snow in Plains and Upper Midwest
Source: Yahoo! News / AP
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A trail of damage was left at an Army post, schools and businesses were closed for a second day, and a damaged women's prison was running partly on backup power Wednesday after two days of storms unleashed tornadoes and flooding in the South and dumped heavy snow in the Midwest.
The most recent apparent twister knocked down some trees and damaged vehicles and buildings at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia on Wednesday evening, spokesman Kevin Larson said. He said the extent of the damage was not immediately known, but there were no reports of injuries. Fort Stewart is the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River. Much of its land area is uninhabited forestland.
The National Weather Service had reports of a tornado moving northeast at about 35 mph, and tornado warnings had been issued for Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties west of Savannah.
In western Alabama, the administration building at the Federal Correctional Institution Aliceville was running on a generator Wednesday, a day after a tornado struck the low-security lockup housing about 1,850 inmates, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. No employees or inmates were hurt, the statement said.
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A blizzard / heavy weather event that swept across the nation.
We had 20 some inches in Iowa, thousands stranded in their cars in Chicago
here is a pic of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
All to say this can be a wild time of year
and remember being totally amazed at how deep the snow was, and how so many cars were shut down in it.
We last had snow in 2010.
2 inches.
It stuck and stayed overnight.
Paralyzed the entire town.
