Posted on 04/28/2011 12:00:03 AM PDT by dragnet2
Deadly tornadoes, thunderstorms tore through the south Wednesday killing more than 70 people in four states.
This is latest round of storms to hit the region over past several days.
At least 77 deaths are being blamed on the severe weather, according to the Associated Press.
The majority of those deaths were reported in Alabama with 61 people killed – including 15 in the city of Tuscaloosa alone.
Mayor Walter Maddox confirmed that 15 people died Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a city of approximately 180,000 leveled by an estimated mile-wide tornado.
A tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. A wave of severe storms laced with tornadoes strafed the South on Wednesday, killing dozens of people around the region and splintering buildings across swaths of an Alabama university town.
"I'm in my car at corner on McFarland. Milo's Hamburgers isn't there anymore," Tuscaloosa resident Phil Owen told ABC News affiliate WBMA.
"We have way over 100 injuries throughout the city of Tuscaloosa," Mayor Maddox said Wednesday. "We have hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed and hundreds more damaged."
Maddox said the National Guard were being dispatched to devastated areas across the state the Associated Press reported.
President Obama declared a state of emergency for the search and rescue response in Alabama, and Gov. Robert Bentley told WBMA he expected him to declare another one to help pay for the cleanup.
In confirming the state of emergency, President Obama said federal officials had their eye on the storms and would offer help as needed.
"Michelle and I extend our deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives because of the tornadoes that have swept through Alabama and the southeastern United States," he said in a written statement.
August said the damage and destruction from on Wednesday's severe weather has left some Alabama residents with no place to go.
"We are opening shelters throughout the state to make sure folks who have nowhere to go, tonight, will have somewhere to go, out of the weather," said August.
Fatalities in Georgia, Mississippi
Crystal Paulk-Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Georgia emergency management in Atlanta, said four people have been killed so far.
In addition, at least 11 were dead in Mississippi, ABC News confirmed.
at least one person killed in Tennessee Wednesday.
The weather system was expected to move into Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky overnight and into the Carolinas by Thursday morning.
These aren't "his" people - he hopes that the damage is extensive and the death toll high. That'll be that many fewer "crackers" that his civilian security force will have to deal with.
Side note - I wonder when Shep will be landing in Tuscaloosa whining about the lack of government help, like he did post-Katrina.
So, has the stupid Obama weighed in yet? or is he on the golf course or at a fundraiser?
Obama hates the people. He is a useless bag of bones.
While this isn’t to quite the same degree, Syracuse, NY was inundated Tues.
Here are some links of the Syracuse area and the SU campus.
This one is obvious. (And no, it’s not a fountain. Just steps)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaH63b3PAc
This one is harder to see, but it is water coming up through a manhole cover like a geyser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMtjHUGYeHU
Someone kayaking down the street.
http://yfrog.com/h8yumadj
SU Daily Orange article
http://www.dailyorange.com/news/afternoon-downpours-flood-euclid-leave-officials-scrambling-to-remove-water-from-campus-buildings-1.2208746
Actually, take a closer look at #39...those *are* “his” people. That looks like a poorer black neighborhood.
Apparently the American Red Cross said this morning that this is their greatest sheltering/feeding operation since Katrina. Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Alabama, southern Tennessee, and northwest Georgia without power.
BTW, the tornado that did that in #39? Tracked across FOUR STATES. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and just barely into North Carolina before the mountains tore it apart.
}:-)4
I sent him an email and asked him. He is at studiob@foxnews.com
baraq dispenses with silliness by going to Chicago to do a tv show and then on to NYC to fleece his zombie supporters. Got home late last night. Has to rest up for his vacation on Friday to Florida to watch the last shuttle mission and get his picture taken with Rep. Giffords.
Then once all the important business has been taken care of, then what the hey, he’s in Florida and there just happens to be a golf course nearby. Might as well get a round in with another bunch of contributors.
Lay off the kenyan. He has a very demanding schedule.
I lost my Grandmother yesterday. Her husband was wounded in the Pacific during WW2 and was sent to recover at the VA hospital in Tuscaloosa AL. He was killed in a robbery thirty years ago and she joined him yesterday. The storm took her to him.
I love ya Maw Maw.
I haven’t been able to read other posts... will send this and shut my phone down. N. Alabama is devastated. No gas available (places that had power are are but empty ). Power out for prob a solid week. Power out from points south of Athens to at least Birmingham. Hard even to buy supplies since we’re in a cash only situation. Many homes in area destroyed. This is historically bad and will take a long time to restore everything. Have not yet seen any utility crews either
Wow...Just reading this...
But he'll probably lead off with some jokes and shout-outs to his socialist financiers.
He's such a despicable Marxist pig.
Oh my. Condolences on the loss of your grandmother. Prayers up for the South.
Oh, no...
My sincere condolences, The Toll.
I hadn't noticed that. Then again, they're probably non-union so "the One" still won't claim them as his people.
I followed that tornado and others last night on another thread - I'm not far from Ringgold, GA and Apison, TN where considerable damage occurred due to tornadoes. The damage at my home and the close vicinity took place yesterday morning, but it is relatively minor in comparison. Lots of trees down less than a mile away, but all I lost was a 7 foot maple, some gable flashing, and a couple of big branches from a pine.
I'm sorry to hear that. Prayers up!
In my continued quest to slam the left at every turn, I sometimes lose sight of what is important.
I am so sorry you lost your grandmother yesterday. So much incredible devastation in Tuscaloosa yesterday.My UA student child is safe, and your grandmother is lost. Please accept my prayers and condolences for you and your family.
Prayers for everyone affected by this horrible storm system.
I have family in New Market/Huntsville AL who we haven’t heard from yet. I was in touch with one cousin feeding her tornado warnings by facebook/phone because she had no power. Her area had 6 tornado warnings in 2 hours.
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Here is a statement from Herman Cain early this morning:
My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of the South who have been affected by the devastating storms that ripped apart communities, homes, and families. May God give you peace throughout the mourning and rebuilding process.
We were very fortunate.
My prayers for the folks all across the South who were hit hard by these storms.
On behalf of the Mod family, please accept our condolences.
I don't know. I think how long one stays on the ground is related to the high and low pressure areas and temperature variations, and how large those areas are. The weather people said before we had the worst outbreak yesterday that the conditions were right for long track tornadoes, but I'm don't know enough to be certain why.
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