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Disappointed. That was the word most often used to describe reaction to the news Saturday that federal disaster assistance was denied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to parts of Southwest Virginia slammed April 28 by tornadoes. “I think it’s going to be devastating to the county,” said Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman. “I was [...]

The National Weather Service says it now has confirmed 16 tornadoes hit Virginia last week. The tornadoes that struck all areas of the state killed five people, including four in Washington County where the most powerful of the twisters hit. Washington County suffered two tornadoes, including one that was 18 miles long and packed winds [...]

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 [...]

Gov. Bob McDonnell told local officials today the state will “marshal all the state and federal resources we can” to help Washington County recover from a devastating tornado that killed four. McDonnell flew this afternoon into the area, where he thanked law enforcement and first-responders at a command station set up at a service station [...]

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 [...]

Massive tornadoes tore a town-flattening streak across the South, killing at least 266 people in six states and forcing rescuers to carry some survivors out on makeshift stretchers of splintered debris. Two of Alabama’s major cities were among the places devastated by the deadliest twister outbreak in nearly 40 years. As day broke Thursday, people [...]