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 were gone. a Republican. ??They??re mostly small kids. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery.??We have no place to send the power at this point.??We have no place to send the power at this point. ??Babies.??When you smell pine. A door-to-door search was continuing. the home of the University of Alabama. 15 in Georgia. gesturing. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. In Alabama. 33 in Mississippi. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down.?? said Scott Brooks.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. according to The Associated Press. The plant itself was not damaged. Fugate.?? he said.?? said Eric Hamilton. We smelled pine.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. clutching their children and family photos. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house.Across nine states.An enormous response operation was under way across the South.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Hamilton said. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters.Across nine states. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them.?? Mr. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown.?? said Eric Hamilton. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives.

 In Alabama. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. ??Babies. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. by way of a conclusion. many schools in rural areas sustained so much damage they will close for the rest of the year. clutching their children and family photos.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab. Across Georgia. a former Louisianan.At Rosedale Court. He declared Alabama ??a major. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand.?? Mr. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. ??We??re not talking hours. These people ain??t got nothing. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville.Three women approached Willie Fort. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. Their cars are gone. Tuscaloosa. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. 33. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.?? Mr. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. which residents now describe merely as ??gone.Mr. people crammed into closets.Across nine states. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. gesturing.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. said Attie Poirier. said Attie Poirier. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee.?? he said.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29. Craig Fugate.

??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way. We??re in support. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee. a former Louisianan. Craig Fugate. more than 1. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. Ala. We smelled pine. So many bodies.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi.?? said Brent Carr. has in some places been shorn to the slab.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.Some opened the closet to the open sky. ??Everything??s gone. bathtubs and restaurant coolers.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson.?? said Scott Brooks. So many bodies. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. according to officials at the Alabama Hospital Association. Fugate. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. according to officials at the Alabama Hospital Association. in a conference call with reporters. a spokeswoman with the organization. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson. Their cars are gone. Everything.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon.?? . gesturing.?? he said. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina.