Tornadoes are causing more deaths and destruction in the Southeast — and they're often doing it in the dark of night. alabamanewsnetwork
a bit out of the vast emptiness of the Great Plains, more into the Southeast where there are more people to hit, poorer populations and more trees to obscure twisters from view.
Since 2000, nearly 89% of the 1,653 Americans killed by tornadoes — not counting this week's victims — lived east of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, according to an Associated Press analysis of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.
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