Storms tear through South amid pandemic; more than 30 dead
Source: AP
By BRYNN ANDERSON and JAY REEVES
CHATSWORTH, Ga. (AP) Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.
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In Alabama, people seeking shelter from tornadoes huddled in community shelters, protective masks covering their faces to guard against the new coronavirus. A twister demolished a Mississippi home save for a concrete room where a married couple and their children survived unharmed, but 11 others died in the state.
About 85 miles (137 kilometers) from Atlanta in the mountains of north Georgia, Emma and Charles Peewee Pritchett laid still in their bed praying as a suspected twister splintered the rest of their home.
I said, If were gonna die Im going to be beside him, the woman said Monday. Both survived without injuries.
Aaron Pais kicks around debris at a mobile home park after a tornado hit on Monday, April 13, 2020, in Chatsworth, Ga. Severe weather has swept across the South, killing multiple people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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still_one
(92,396 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)So much more suffering & loss of lives. 💔
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)went through our town today at about 8:30 AM. We're fine, just some tree branches down, but it did some heavy damage over towards Charleston. About ten to twelve baseball sized chunks of hail hit the side of the house.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)It turned out to be a blessing, he said.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)Trust me! It will be lost on many of them.
ananda
(28,876 posts).. for the South's entrenchment in denial.
A lot of good democrats live in the south. Theres just more republicans. Its a conservative region no doubt, but you cant blame the landscape for bad politicians.
Not blaming or implying your intent, but out of context it comes across a bit like Michael Moore proclaiming that African American Democrats werent representative of the party. Not at all saying thats what you meant, but it could be taken that way.