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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 AFP: A powerful tornado which ripped across a small town in Georgia, swept up everything in its past and then roared north into Tennessee, finally dumping a store sign more than 112 miles away.Linda Summitt of Knoxville, Tennessee, could not believe her eyes when she walked into her front yard on Thursday morning and [...]

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 [...]

Per The Coastal Source: In response to the devastating tornados in Alabama and Georgia, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is contributing $225,000 to support the efforts of the American Red Cross in affected areas in the two hard-hit states. “Our hearts go out to our friends, neighbors and customers whose lives have been turned [...]

It was bad enough that a tornado obliterated Derrick Keef’s house. Worse still was the heartbreaking scavenger hunt for his most priceless possessions strewn across the devastated neighborhood. His guns were in the ruins of a neighbor’s home. A Christmas heirloom shared space in a ditch with broken glass and jagged nails. And his 7-year-old [...]

Houses looked like they had been blown inside out with the walls down and furniture spilling into the streets. In a parking lot at the University of Alabama, the tornado left behind 20 smashed cars, many of them piled on top of each other. “I don’t want to think now in how much I lost,” [...]

Per The Age: The death toll from a series of storms and tornadoes across the southern United States soared to at least 295 on Thursday, with 195 confirmed fatalities in the state of Alabama alone.

Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of twisters in nearly four decades. The clusters of powerful tornadoes — more than 160 reported in total — combined with storms to cut a swath of destruction heading west to east over several days. In [...]

A horrific storm system that killed more than 250 people in six states across the South is one of the worst the country has experienced in more than four decades. In the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m. CT Thursday, 163 tornadoes had been reported by eye witnesses. One of those, a mile-wide tornado [...]