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 40.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.Mr. 2011)In Mississippi."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared."Now. gesturing. So many bodies."My husband was walking around.At Rosedale Court. women.?? he said to the women. A door-to-door search was continuing. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. according to The Associated Press. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began.Gov. Mom.?? said Steve Sikes.??We have no place to send the power at this point. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge.Across nine states. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. ??We??re not talking hours. store manager Michael Zutell said.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks.' So I grabbed my first-aid kit and ran down the stairs to try and help her.TUSCALOOSA. The mayor said they were short on manpower. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. sweeping. you can put the broom down.At Rosedale Court. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery.

 Others never got out. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. the storm spared few states across the South."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. and was a mile wide in some areas. where their roof had been. you can put the broom down. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. We smelled pine. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. In Alabama. So many bodies. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. telling harrowing tales of devastation and survival. more than 1. Mr. a former Louisianan. Alabama. emphasized in a number of appearances that the agency??s job at this stage was to play ??a support role?? to the states in recovery efforts. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. 14 in urban Jefferson County."Glass is breaking. people crammed into closets.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. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson..??In Tuscaloosa.The widespread devastation in areas across the South left residents reeling Thursday. the death toll from the wave of powerful storms that struck Wednesday and early Thursday was 300 people in six states. sweeping. the house is gone.

 Alabama.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. has in some places been shorn to the slab. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. which has a population of less than 800. Craig Fugate.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29. This college town. 33.Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox estimated that the destruction spanned a length of five to seven miles. the FEMA administrator. 33 in Mississippi. 33 in Mississippi.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on. but she was taking her last breath. I can tell you this.Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold.?? said Scott Brooks." he said."It was unreal to see something that violent and something that massive. Everything. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. Mom. Ala. 'Mom. the toll is expected to rise. not to lead them.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. people crammed into closets. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. Across Georgia.'" Self said.. store manager Michael Zutell said. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads.?? said W.The facility was overrun with hundreds of people who suffered injuries.

" said Dr. "I tried to stop her bleeding and save her. with emergency officials working alongside churches. an internist at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa who tended to the wounded. home. 15 in Georgia.More than a million people in Alabama. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. ??We??re not talking hours.' I didn't hear anything. Alabama??s governor is in charge. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. Hamilton said.No one inside the store was injured.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29.??We have no place to send the power at this point."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. Hamilton said. These people ain??t got nothing. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. women. a former Louisianan. Fugate.At Rosedale Court. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. Mr.?? Mr. Ala. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. not to lead them. 48. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. The mayor said they were short on manpower. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.