Posted on 03/06/2019 10:30:52 AM PST by LibWhacker
Two large corporations that declined to be named offered to pay for the funerals of all 23 victims who died during Sunday's tornadoes in eastern Alabama.
Lee County Coroner Bill Harris confirmed the offer Tuesday, saying "it came out of the blue."
"What a wonderful blessing this will be for the families who have lost loved ones!" the sheriff's office wrote on Facebook. "To these corporations we thank you!
We're told these are national companies and officials are still working out the details.
The names and ages of all 23 victims who died in what is said to be the deadliest tornado in nearly six years were released Tuesday.
The youngest victim from Sunday's storm, was six-year-old Armondo (AJ) Hernandez while 89-year-old Jimmy Lee Jones was the oldest victim.
'It's devastating': 10 members of 1 family killed in Alabama tornado
Other victims were: eight-year-old Mykala Waldon; nine-year-old Jonathan Marquez Bowen; 10-year-old Taylor Thornton; Felicia Woodall and Ryan Pence, both 22; 38-year-old Eric Jamal Stenson; 41-year-old Irma Gomez-Moran; David Dean and Emmanuiel Jones, both 53; 57-year-old Maggie Delight Robinson; Charlotte Ann Miller, 59-year-old Marshall Lynn Grimes and Sheila Creech; 62-year-old Tresia Robinson; Florel Tate Stenson and Raymond Robinson Jr, both 63; 65-year-old Henry Lewis Stenson; 68-year-old Mamie Roberts Koon; 69-year-old Vicki Braswell; 83-year-old Mary Louise Jones and 86-year-old James Henry Tate.
The storms ripped through Eastern Alabama, causing the most damage in Beauregard. Only days after the storm, progress is being made.
"The storm is rotating at 170 miles an hour and a mile wide picking up houses, bricks, it’s picking up this stuff," said Chris Darden, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. "They’re like missiles, so if that hits you at 170 miles an hour what do you think is going to happen to you."
Crews are in Beauregard removing debris and repairing down power lines. While the death toll has not increased, officials say less than a dozen people remain unaccounted for.
"Less than one percent of all tornadoes are EF-4, EF-5," Darden said. "Very rare and certainly there hasn’t been one in the United States in several years."
Me Too!
I fear tornadoes more than I fear hurricanes. Although, hurricanes can spawn tornadoes.
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There’s more time to prepare for a hurricane. It seems more people get hurt preparing than from the hurricane itself.
Regardless, there are more fatalities from flooding than any other weather event.
Lord, please be with the survivors of this awful event.
Drone pictures show us the horrible impact over a large areas.
The after Drone Pictures of fires and a couple of floods in California the past two years show the terrible leftover impacts of those disasters.
The big outbreak in the Midwest? Hit Xenia OH and Brandenburg KY especially hard, but lots of tornados elsewhere around the region as well.
I probably have at least a nightmare a month about being caught in a tornado.
Hi lovely lady.
May the Lord watch over and comfort the people of Beauregard and those harmed by these storms.
Amen.
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Prayers going out to whole community and thanks to all providing needed support.
Yes, 2011 was bad. We were without power in Madison County for 7 entire days, daughter was a junior in HS and son still in middle school. Lots of snow that year too but Hazel Green students still performed with impressive scores on their AP exams that spring and hadn’t even covered all the material. I think that school district near Birmingham still beat us, of course.
Beauregard Alabama was named for Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard.
In addition Beauregard Parish in Louisiana was also named after the General.
Hey there, fine sir. Thank you for your prayers. The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
OK. Thank you for your additional information.
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