Sauniere
04-04-2006, 02:01 AM
Nature unleashing her mighty forces upon a humanity still sublime with its belief that it controls the world...
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RUTHERFORD, Tenn. — The death toll was expected to rise Monday after severe thunderstorms packed with tornadoes and softball-sized hail tore through six Midwestern states, leaving at least 27 dead.
In western Tennessee, 23 deaths were reported, including a family of four. In Missouri, strong winds were blamed for at least three deaths. A clothing store collapsed in southern Illinois, killing one man and injuring several others. An 11-month old in Tennessee was blown from its home and carried several feet down the street before it died.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes also struck parts of Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, leaving scores others injured and left destruction in their wake. The weather service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it had preliminary reports of 63 tornadoes.
Tennessee was hardest hit, with tornadoes striking along a 25-mile path through five western counties Sunday, the National Weather Service said. State troopers sent teams into the area Monday with search dogs, Highway Patrol spokeswoman Melissa McDonald said.
Betty Sisk said she and her 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son tried to take cover but were thrown into the yard as their Newbern home was shredded by the storm.
"By the time the (tornado) sirens started going off, it was at our back door," Sisk said Monday. "I didn't hear a train sound, I heard a roaring."
She and the children ran into a closet until the twister blew their house apart and threw them into the yard, where they huddled until the storm passed. Nothing remained of Sisk's wood-frame home Monday but the concrete steps.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said more than 1,000 buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed and about 75 people injured, 17 of them critically. He asked President Bush to declare Dyer and Gibson counties federal disaster areas.
"Our first priority is helping those impacted to get back on their feet quickly and to bring back a sense of normalcy at a time when they need it most," said Bredesen, who planned to visit the area Tuesday.
The Tennessee Valley Authority estimated that more than 18,000 customers in Tennessee and Kentucky were without power Monday...
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RUTHERFORD, Tenn. — The death toll was expected to rise Monday after severe thunderstorms packed with tornadoes and softball-sized hail tore through six Midwestern states, leaving at least 27 dead.
In western Tennessee, 23 deaths were reported, including a family of four. In Missouri, strong winds were blamed for at least three deaths. A clothing store collapsed in southern Illinois, killing one man and injuring several others. An 11-month old in Tennessee was blown from its home and carried several feet down the street before it died.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes also struck parts of Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, leaving scores others injured and left destruction in their wake. The weather service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it had preliminary reports of 63 tornadoes.
Tennessee was hardest hit, with tornadoes striking along a 25-mile path through five western counties Sunday, the National Weather Service said. State troopers sent teams into the area Monday with search dogs, Highway Patrol spokeswoman Melissa McDonald said.
Betty Sisk said she and her 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son tried to take cover but were thrown into the yard as their Newbern home was shredded by the storm.
"By the time the (tornado) sirens started going off, it was at our back door," Sisk said Monday. "I didn't hear a train sound, I heard a roaring."
She and the children ran into a closet until the twister blew their house apart and threw them into the yard, where they huddled until the storm passed. Nothing remained of Sisk's wood-frame home Monday but the concrete steps.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said more than 1,000 buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed and about 75 people injured, 17 of them critically. He asked President Bush to declare Dyer and Gibson counties federal disaster areas.
"Our first priority is helping those impacted to get back on their feet quickly and to bring back a sense of normalcy at a time when they need it most," said Bredesen, who planned to visit the area Tuesday.
The Tennessee Valley Authority estimated that more than 18,000 customers in Tennessee and Kentucky were without power Monday...