Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’

The anticipation of another round of summer spot storms is now attached to a bit on anxiety, considering the damage yesterday’s storms caused. Today we expect a high of 99 degrees and a 20% chance of showers. By tonight temps will fall into the lower 70s. The “20%” chance of storms yesterday stayed true to [...]

As floods ravage the Mississippi basin and the South picks itself up from last month’s devastating tornadoes, House Republicans want to increase aid. Republicans controlling a key House panel boosted funding for disaster relief on Friday to make up what they called President Barack Obama’s “wholly inadequate request.”

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 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 [...]

The National Weather Service says 1 of the tornadoes that killed hundreds in the South had winds of 205 mph and was the first EF-5 tornado in Mississippi since 1966.

Per WSPA: President Obama has arrived in Alabama to see tornado devastation and offer assistance to the victims of Wednesday’s storms.

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,” [...]