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 Their cars are gone. Everything. Governor Bentley.??We heard crashing.?? said W.Some opened the closet to the open sky.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab. 48.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. a nurse. a nurse.Some opened the closet to the open sky.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.??When you smell pine. Mr. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand.While Alabama was hit the hardest. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky.?? said Steve Sikes. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Alabama??s governor is in charge.?? Mr. Governor Bentley. We smelled pine. the track is all the way down. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.?? he said. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. breaking a 36-year-old record. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August.An enormous response operation was under way across the South.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared.

??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon.?? said Brent Carr.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog.??We heard crashing. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. A door-to-door search was continuing. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. ??Everything??s gone. Over all. 40. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. a low-income housing project. a low-income housing project.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.?? Mr. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms.??We have no place to send the power at this point. by way of a conclusion. In Alabama. where their roof had been. We??re in support. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. 33 in Mississippi. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. Everything. Witt. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. 15 in Georgia.Three women approached Willie Fort. We smelled pine. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. 33. major disaster.

The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. Ala. said Attie Poirier. Their cars are gone. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance. more than 1.Some opened the closet to the open sky.Thousands have been injured. This college town. 15 in Georgia.?? he said.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. Fugate. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. 33 in Mississippi. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. The plant itself was not damaged. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. a former Louisianan. Craig Fugate.?? . a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. clutching their children and family photos.?? Mr. said Robert E. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. has in some places been shorn to the slab. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center.