Severe Storms Continue To Rip Through The South, death toll has risen to 173 across five states

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Severe Storms Continue To Rip Through The South, Causing Multiple Fatalities (VIDEO)



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/severe-storms-continue-to-rip-through-the-south_n_854693.html

Mississippi each reporting increases in the number of deaths in their states.

Alabama's emergency management agency says their death toll has gone up to 128, while Mississippi officials are reporting 32 dead in that state.

Another 11 have been killed in Georgia and one each in Tennessee and Virginia.

The fierce storms spawned tornadoes and have wiped out homes and businesses, forced a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even prompted the evacuation of a National Weather Service office.

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1. That picture is unreal

:cry:

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. I'm stunned. I used to live in Alabama and Georgia before trading in tornados for hurricanes.

I remember every year in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade my class would watch two documentaries back to back.

"The Day of the Killer Tornados" about the super Outbreak of April 3rd & 4th, 1974. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002443/

and

"A Lady Called Camille" about the August 17-18, 1969 hurricane.


I remember scenes from those documentaries so vividly I'm wondering if we weren't shown them at least twice a year.

I saw this story with amazing video this morning and could not believe my emotional reaction. I felt like I was a little girl sitting in the middle of tornado alley watching these documentaries all over again.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/tornadoes-160-killed-south-including-128-alabama/story?id=13474955

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3. Meanwhile, every one of our major media outlets this morning

has "Kate Middleton" or "royal" in every sentence.

This is also the largest deployment of National Guard for a natural disaster.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. MSNBC: "Storms, tornadoes ravage South; at least 196 dead"

Storms, tornadoes ravage South; at least 196 dead



msnbc.com news services
updated 10 minutes ago

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The death toll from severe storms that punished five Southern states jumped to a staggering 196 Thursday after Alabama canvassed its hard-hit counties for a new tally of lives lost.

Alabama's state emergency management agency said it had confirmed 128 deaths, up from at least 61 earlier.

"We hope not, but I do expect to find more bodies," Gov. Robert Bentley told NBC's TODAY.

Mississippi officials reported 32 dead in that state and Tennessee raised its report to 14. Another 12 have been killed in Georgia and eight in Virginia. In Louisiana, two people drowned.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42794539/ns/weather/

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5. Huffington Post: " 2011 Tornado Outbreak Death Toll Hits 329, Deadliest Since 1932"

2011 Tornado Outbreak Death Toll Hits 329, Deadliest Since 1932

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/2011-tornado-outbreak-deaths_n_855646.html



TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded Friday as they tried to emerge from the nation's deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.

Emergency buildings are wiped out. Bodies are stored in refrigerated trucks. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights. In one neighborhood, the storms even left firefighters to work without a truck.

The death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 across seven states, including 238 in Alabama, making it the deadliest U.S. tornado outbreak since March 1932, when another Alabama storm killed 332 people. Tornadoes that swept across the South and Midwest in April 1974 left 315 people dead.

Hundreds if not thousands of people were injured Wednesday – 990 in Tuscaloosa alone – and as many as 1 million Alabama homes and businesses remained without power.

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6. These storms came through Texas on their way South

and they were severe and scary. We were caught in a building and not allowed to leave because of a spotted tornado.

Fortunately, they were just scary for us. I can't imagine the horror that these folks went through as their worlds were being ripped and shredded before their eyes.

My thoughts and sympathies are with them.