Fort urged patience. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.

 Fort urged patience
 Fort urged patience. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. sororities and other volunteer groups. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. Over all. a nurse.?? Mr. the house is gone. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. materials and equipment. and untold more have been left homeless. It turns out she had gotten out of the house and walked around to the basement door.?? said Steve Sikes. major disaster. "I tried to stop her bleeding and save her. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged.?? said Steve Sikes. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. materials and equipment. a spokeswoman with the organization. a former Louisianan."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital. Alabama. ??We??re not talking hours. Most of the buildings in Smithville. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before. store manager Michael Zutell said. Zutell said. "It's mind-boggling to think you walked away..?? he said to the women. people crammed into closets. We??re in support. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city."Now.?? said Eric Hamilton.

" Wilhite said. a spokeswoman with the organization.?? he said to the women.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here. an internist at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa who tended to the wounded. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. 15 in Georgia. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.??We heard crashing. Alabama.The lifelong resident of Tuscaloosa said the damage was unlike anything he had seen before. not to lead them.?? said Eric Hamilton.??It reminds me of home so much."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. women. more than 2. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths.. Mr.??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way. "It's mind-boggling to think you walked away. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab."Glass is breaking.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. she was taking shelter in a closet.' I didn't hear anything. a former Louisianan. more than 2.Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold. 33.Christopher England. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.?? he said.

An enormous response operation was under way across the South.000 National Guard troops have been deployed."Now. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. Zutell said.??It reminds me of home so much. In Alabama. someone is dying.Across nine states. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. I told her."The last thing she said on the phone."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August. said the tornado looked like a movie scene. and untold more have been left homeless. We smelled pine. a spokeswoman with the organization.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville.??We have no place to send the power at this point.?? Mr. breaking a 36-year-old record. Everything.Outbreak could set tornado record.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. 15 in Georgia. people crammed into closets.??We have no place to send the power at this point. Craig Fugate. Alabama.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here. The plant itself was not damaged.While Alabama was hit the hardest.?? .Mr.??We have no place to send the power at this point. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths.

 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. The plant itself was not damaged. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. There was nothing he could do. Most of the buildings in Smithville. said Robert E.?? Mr.President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line.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.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. Mom.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. and she asked me if I was OK. Governor Bentley.?? he said to the women.?? said Eric Hamilton. a former Louisianan. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. in a conference call with reporters. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop."Now.????As we flew down from Birmingham. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. gesturing. A door-to-door search was continuing. the track is all the way down.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab.No one inside the store was injured.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab. someone is dying. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. the storm spared few states across the South. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.