Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’

Six tornadoes — not four — touched down in DeKalb County on April 27, according to information released earlier this week by the National Weather Service. NWS has officially added two more tornadoes to the list of twisters that devastated DeKalb County on April 27. Though much of the damage was on Sand Mountain, where [...]

Aren’t you glad it’s Friday? Do you want to maybe cry a little in celebration? Then check out this video, below, of Judy Pugh, whose home was destroyed by the tornadoes that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27. The ferocious twister left at least 39 dead in Tuscaloosa alone.

Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had spent much of his adult life raising chickens, cows and three children. The tornado, one in a series of storms [...]

Damage from last week’s tornadoes and storms in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is awash in debt, is far worse than initially thought and will hit the county’s sewer revenue, the county commission president said on Tuesday. The county, saddled with a $3.2 billion sewer bond debt, is struggling to avoid declaring what would be the [...]

Federal officials already have said several areas are eligible for disaster relief, including 28 counties in Alabama and four in Tennessee. The storms that roared across the South last week flattened churches and crushed the homes of pastors and parishioners in a ragged stretch from Mississippi to Virginia. At least 342 people were killed and [...]

According to the Stratis Times: The death toll from a slew of tornadoes rose to 324 on Friday, making the terrible storms the third-deadliest outbreak of twisters in US history and the worst in nearly 80 years. On Friday, the number of confirmed tornado-related deaths increased to 228 in Alabama; to 34 in Mississippi; and [...]

Per the Christian Science Monitor: With at least 300 lives lost from a massive tornado outbreak in the South, the Obama White House reacted quickly this week, declaring a federal disaster, promising federal help, and dispatching none other than the president himself to Alabama on Friday to survey the damage. A few states away, Texas [...]

The devastating tornadoes that swept across Alabama and other southern states Wednesday caused widespread power outages, shut down several large manufacturing plants and could disrupt the region’s fragile economic recovery. Most economists say the setback will likely be temporary. Martin Soler, an associate economist at Moody’s Analytics, said Alabama’s economy was already struggling to recover [...]

Per the Associated Press: A Georgia salon owner and her two daughters — Sky and Stormy — climbed inside a tanning bed while a tornado ripped the roof off their business. A Virginia couple scrambled under their garage’s wooden steps after a twister ripped off their home’s roof. Mississippi mobile home park residents found shelter [...]

Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the wind-wrecked landscape Friday, enduring blackouts and waiting in long lines for gas as their remaining possessions lay hidden in the rubble. President Barack Obama arrived in devastated Alabama to console victims whose emergency safety net has been [...]