, spawning more than two dozen tornadoes that left a trail of destruction from Louisiana to Georgia.
Two deaths were reported in Alabama as search and rescue crews continued to survey the damage from the storm system, which forecasters predicted would move through the Gulf Coast on Wednesday., at least 36 tornadoes were reported in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, though not all were confirmed.
In Flatwood, Ala., two people died when their home was struck by a tree during a tornado, the Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency said.In Eutaw, Ala., a suspected tornado ripped the roof off an apartment complex, displacing 15 families in the middle of the night. “We’ve got power lines, trees just all over the road,” Eutaw Police Chief Tommy Johnson told WBRC-TV late Tuesday. “In the morning when we get a little daylight, we’re going to do a door-by-door search to make sure no one is trapped inside or anything like that.”“I have seen some really nice mobile homes tied down,” Hale County Emergency Management Director Russell Weeden said. “But they just don’t stand a chance against a tornado.
In Caledonia, Miss., a confirmed tornado shredded a fire station and trapped people inside a grocery store, but Lowndes County Emergency Management Agency Director Cindy Lawrence told
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