Posted on 04/27/2011 8:14:16 PM PDT by blam
Storms Kill 64 Around South, Including 50 In Alabama
Jay Reeves And Holbrook Mohr
April 27, 2011
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A tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – An emergency official says 10 more storm-related deaths have been confirmed in an Alabama county, bringing the regional death toll to 64.
Mark Kelley of the Jefferson County EMA is reporting a total of 11 deaths, up from a single death disclosed there earlier in the day.
Elsewhere in Alabama, severe weather has claimed 39 lives, including 15 in the hard-hit college town of Tuscaloosa.
Also on Wednesday, storms killed 11 in Mississippi, two in Georgia and one in Tennessee.
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Update:
Storms kill 72 around South, including 58 in Ala.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110428/ap_on_re_us/us_severe_weather
Or the flooded house, collapsed ceiling, three weeks of tree cleanup to look forward to, or the steady humm of my sump pump which is losing the battle by about an inch per hour.
Not even close.
Udall, KS tornado, May 25, 1955
Udall was a town of 610...and suffered 76 fatalities. The town was half-a-mile square and the tornado was a quarter-mile wide at the base. It went thru from SW to NE, leaving only the Northwest and Southeast corners of the town still standing. Everything in the path of the tornado was totally destroyed.
As one who arrived at the scene the next morning, I mean destroyed -- nothing but splinters remained. The only thing comparable that I've seen was the Greensburg, KS storm of two years ago -- where only 3-4 were killed due to ample warning, even though a significant portion of the town was literally flattened.
There have been higher fatalities than Udall, too. Wichita Falls, Waco and Moore, OK all had higher death counts I believe.
You sir are a soul-less a/hole. (By yankee definition) Some people just have to bandwagon any crisis d’jour. Instead they should take up lifeguarding their own canals for late night swimming mishaps.
I’ve been around 47 years and have seen a lot of severe weather outbreaks - but few as bad as the last couple of days.
When this particular outbreak (which by most standards, started on Monday) is considered at an end, I suspect it’ll easily surpass the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Outbreak
And the president of the United States is in New York attending at least three fundraising parties.
Not a word from him on this tragedy.
I saw the video of that one in Tuscaloosa—it looked like a doozy! Glad they got your power back up. Stay safe.
Is that about 100 dead from storms across the south the past few weeks?
Rest assured o had checked out the golf courses before he went on with Oprah. As he said it is time for silliness to be past, and worrying about deaths from storm damage is not one of his priorities.
Put a sarcasm tag on it and Blackdog makes perfectly good sense. Where do you think o’s concerns are? It sure is not the loss of life and property.
And Obama remains mute
You are worried about golf courses?
God Bless you , your neighbors and family.
I am sickened by the fact that i just turned on the tee vee and no one is following it.
I don’t live there but when you post as you did without thinking, most likely correctly, but as an outsider freaking out because once again the red south is going to be ignored..
I read a post that leads with dead bodies, tornadoes, death and destruction...
and you ask about golf courses...
what the heck did you think other folks would think?
We just want to help and pray for you and yours..
What can I do?
Looks like the toll is climbing.
Storms kill 72 around South, including 58 in Ala.
Don’t know if you’ll want to update the headline or not, but I figure it never hurts to let you know.
Today's death toll is already the highest since 1985 for one day (75 killed on May 31) and if the number goes any higher could be the worst day since the 315 in April 1974 (which was over two days but obviously at least 158 on one of the two days).
The worst toll on one day since 2000 was 57 on Feb. 25, 2008.
Sometimes people don't get me. I was not really concerned about golf courses. Quite the opposite actually.
Watch the "old man river" for the next three weeks. That's the real mess to come.
Note to self........Sarcasm tag!
Prayers lifted.
Think of all the twister shredded confederate flags and all the old appliances removed from everyones front yard down heeya?!
BIG VISIBLE UNFORGED SARCASM TAG RIGHT HEEYA /S
The Silence of the Bams.
Leni
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