Tornadoes in the southern USA kill at least 54 people
Thunderstorms and tornadoes considerably shaken the country and lives in the southern USA-Tuesday and Wednesday, have killed at least 54 people and injured more than 150 in the deadliest of these storms in nine years.
In Tennessee’s Sumner County, north-east of Nashville, a tornado sucked a 11 months of age youth and his mother at home. They were the latest in a field. The child survived in good condition, but her mother was dead.
Dir Tennessee, Phil Bredesen said he was shocked by the intensity and magnitude of a storm that “only literally sat on the ground in large areas along a line, so that more than 400 miles (643 km) wide.
On Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Ferina Ferrington said a local television reporter: “My husband and me in the bathtub with our granddaughter. I remember flying in the air. It was very frightening. So it was calm and we saw our real house has disappeared. The child was injured. ”
President George W. Bush travels to Tennessee, on Friday, an overview of the storm damage and offer its support to him, “said spokesman Scott Stanzel White House.
In Arkansas, where nearly 500 houses and businesses were destroyed or seriously damaged in four departments, Johnny Martin, 65, was attended by his personal affairs of brick and wood home was broken under the huge oak trees in the city by Atkins, west of Little Rock.
“We all huddled in the bathroom,” said Martin of his wife, mother and other family members. “I lifted during the first at the door when I heard … The Lord was with us. ”
More rigor were affected Tennessee - where 30 people died - Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama. There were reports awaiting more than 69 tornadoes swirling of these countries to the north and in Indiana, in accordance with the provisions Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma.
The death rivalled although a series of tornadoes in May 1999 in Oklahoma, Texas and other countries, where some 50 people were killed, said the middle. Typical tornadoes kill more than 70 people in the USA every year.
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