Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned tornadoes and killed at least three people.
By Kristin M. Hall and George Walker IV, Associated PressValerie Bernhardt looks through debris at her stormed damaged home Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbia, Tenn. A wave of dangerous storms began crashing over parts of the South on Thursday, a day after severe weather with damaging tornadoes killed at least three people in the region.
The storms continue a streak of torrential rains and tornadoes this week from the Plains to the Midwest and, now, the Southeast. Since Monday, 39 states have been under threat of severe weather and at least four people have died. On Wednesday and Thursday, about 220 million people were under some sort of severe weather risk, with some in danger multiple days, said Matthew Elliott, a Storm Prediction Center forecaster.The weather comes on the heels of a stormy April in which the U.S.
Later, Lee told reporters that it is “heartbreaking” to see families whose lives have been affected by the tornado. “I get up and look out, and it was all hell breaking loose outside,” Booth said. “Then the top half of one of my trees goes down across the road.”Retired pastor Walter Shell said he and his wife grabbed their two dogs and headed for the basement when his phone alerted him to a tornado.
A 10-year-old boy was seriously injured in Christiana, southeast of Nashville, when he got caught in a storm drain and swept under streets while playing with other children as adults cleared debris, his father, Rutherford County Schools Superintendent Jimmy Sullivan, posted on social media. “We’re just trying to clean up right now and wait for the next round,” said Lynn Smith, director of the Habersham County Emergency Management Agency.
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