Posted on 02/06/2008 7:03:18 AM PST by blam
Death and Damage From Tornadoes
Published: 2/6/08, 9:26 AM EDT
(AP) - State-by-state look at deaths and damage caused by a string of tornadoes that tore across the South:
ALABAMA: At least four people killed in northern Alabama. An apparent tornado damaged eight homes in Walker County, and a pregnant woman suffered a broken arm when a trailer home was tossed by the winds, according to the county's emergency management director.
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ARKANSAS: At least 13 people killed, including parents and their 11-year-old daughter in Atkins, about 60 miles northwest of Little Rock. Their home took a "direct hit" from the storm, an emergency official said.
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KENTUCKY: At least seven people killed, including a western Kentucky couple in their mobile home with their adult daughter.
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MISSISSIPPI: A twister shredded warehouses in an industrial park in the city of Southaven, just south of Memphis.
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TENNESSEE: At least 24 people were killed, including a 70-year-old man whose mobile home was leveled in Macon County.
A fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station northeast of Nashville that authorities said could have been damaged by the storms. Eight students were trapped in a battered dormitory at Union University in Jackson until they were finally freed; about 51 students were taken to the hospital. Winds collapsed roof of Sears store at a mall.
wow - prayers for all
Prayers offered, how terrible for these people.
I experienced the one which came throgh downtown Nashville in ‘98. It’s bad enough during the daytime, but when these things happen at night, it’s got to be far worse.
Photos of some of the damage in Alabama.4 deaths confirmed.I'm partial to the photo of the American flag that was wrapped around the tree.
I’ve actually watched our local TV weather meteorologists tell the public that if they are in a mobile home and know that a tornado is approaching, to do whatever it takes to get out of the home and take their chances lying in a ditch or flat to the ground, but do not stay in the mobile home. That’s pretty drastic advice.
30 million dollars worth of damage at Union University alone.
My biggest fear and worry, a night time tornado.
Sounds like something Pat Robertson would say.
I went in the basement when I lived in Wichita. It made a mess of the trailer park on the other side of the hill.
I moved and was told the whole block got a clean shave. A person filmed most of the Twister from a dorm on McConnell AFB. It was part of a show. That on took out a lot of the base. They will get you sooner or later.
Hey! I know a ton of people that voted for Romney in Memphis.
This was a nasty storm. We were at the park yesterday morning and it was gloomy and humid, but a nice, warm 77 degrees. We left at noon to eat lunch before my son’s ASL class at 1:00. By 1:30, the front came through and it was so windy that I could not keep the car (a minivan) from veering into the next lane. At 1:35 we got marble sized hail. Then it rained for about 10 minutes. Done. The sky was clear and blue, but the wind remained all afternoon. The temp dropped from 77 to 43 in about an hour.
The house two houses down had roof damage. We didn’t have any tornadoes, but we easily could have had deaths from this. The wind was extremely strong and out of the west. I wish I knew how high the sustained wind was. All the flags on the flagpoles were horizontal all afternoon, as if they had been starched into place.
oh yeah, and we live in north Texas - Not the states where the storm was mentioned.
Prayers lifted for them.
That sounds like us last night,intense TS just to our north,found out later
there was a touchdown on Brazier lane.No deaths there thank God.
Watched that gas explosion from our house.
Think its 8 dead now on Greenfield Lane in Castallion Springs. Found 2 more this morning.They`re still bring in cadaver dogs to search.
Finding dead cows and horses everywhere,thrown I heard at the Co-Op this A.M.
Middle of the night tornado,terrifying.
Here is the latest news from Cookeville, TN. It will be updated throughout the day:
http://www.ucdailynews.com/news/local/15351281.html
Those winds got all the way to south Texas. It was howling big time yesterday. Monday morning I opened the door and a big Christmas tree was laying by my porch. A big one. I thought someone was playing games but the neighbor next door claimed it. That took a big gust to pick it up and carry it to my house. Definatelty not a day to park your car at Walmart.
Yeah, we were told we lived in a tornado alley. I think mobile homes are magnets.
Tennessee Tech is in Cookeville
I just had an email from a friend and former co-worker. Her sister and husband died in one of the tornados, Cleveland, Arkansas. Small world as she and I are both in Missouri and the storms didn’t hit here.
Please pray for the people of Gassville Ar. I think the death toll is 3? now. I rode it out in the Dollar General Store parking lot. Did not realize how much damage there was and how close I was to it till I went back through this morning going to work. Half the town is gone.
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