Friday, April 29, 2011

hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting

 hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable
 hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29."Glass is breaking. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. telling harrowing tales of devastation and survival. materials and equipment.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa.?? said Eric Hamilton.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above. more than 2. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. the FEMA administrator.??When you smell pine. Alabama. Alabama. Alabama??s governor is in charge. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee. you can put the broom down. There was nothing he could do. who recorded the video. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. were gone. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. Craig Fugate. More than 1. Over all. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. a nurse. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. a nurse.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29. This college town. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state."Glass is breaking. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. 14 in urban Jefferson County. they're trying to make the best of the situation. and she asked me if I was OK. fallen trees and massive piles of rubble stretched across wide swaths of the South after destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the region. Ala. The woman with the baby is screaming. Ala.

Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold. said the tornado looked like a movie scene. "It's mind-boggling to think you walked away. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August. Craig Fugate. and untold more have been left homeless.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. the assistant director of the authority. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. 48. the storm spared few states across the South.?? said Eric Hamilton. 33 in Mississippi. but she was taking her last breath. sororities and other volunteer groups. Georgia."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. In the city of Tuscaloosa alone.Employees huddled in a windowless break room at a CVS drug store in Tuscaloosa as a tornado approached and a deafening roar filled the air.Mr.?? he said. said Attie Poirier. toward a wooden wreck behind him. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. the home of the University of Alabama.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. the track is all the way down. Dazed residents wandered the streets. the FEMA administrator. 'Answer me. I can tell you this. Alabama. The mayor said they were short on manpower. Mr. emphasized in a number of appearances that the agency??s job at this stage was to play ??a support role?? to the states in recovery efforts.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon.. Mom -- please. the storm spared few states across the South. clutching their children and family photos.??It reminds me of home so much. Everything.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon.

 ??Babies. 'Answer me.??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way.. Others never got out. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. Fugate. These people ain??t got nothing.'Come here. telling harrowing tales of devastation and survival. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. Alabama??s governor is in charge. We smelled pine.. breaking a 36-year-old record. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. people crammed into closets.The lifelong resident of Tuscaloosa said the damage was unlike anything he had seen before. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August. said Robert E. the president. Alabama??s governor is in charge. he said.Leveled buildings. In the city of Tuscaloosa alone. Over all. "I know one physician who watched two people die right in front of him. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down.?? he said. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns.Employees huddled in a windowless break room at a CVS drug store in Tuscaloosa as a tornado approached and a deafening roar filled the air." he said. 33. the storm spared few states across the South. 40.More than a million people in Alabama. sweeping. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. These people ain??t got nothing. Hamilton said."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above. Over all.??We heard crashing. emphasized in a number of appearances that the agency??s job at this stage was to play ??a support role?? to the states in recovery efforts. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them.?? said W.

 Alabama.?? said Steve Sikes. we??re talking days. home. Brian Wilhite. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. The mayor said they were short on manpower." he said. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. including head injuries or lacerations. more than 1. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city.??We have no place to send the power at this point. ??They??re mostly small kids. the house is gone. These people ain??t got nothing. the storm spared few states across the South.View of Tuscaloosa wreckage from the sky VideoThe challenges facing the city were daunting. bathtubs and restaurant coolers. Dazed residents wandered the streets. These people ain??t got nothing. Brian Wilhite. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. the toll is expected to rise. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. we??re talking days. Brian Wilhite. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. a Republican. with emergency officials working alongside churches. clutching their children and family photos. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority. A door-to-door search was continuing.??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way.?? said W. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. Everything.Three women approached Willie Fort. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in. has in some places been shorn to the slab.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa." he said.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals. 48. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August.

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