Rescuers raced to find survivors in the aftermath of a tornado-spawning storm system that barreled across parts of Georgia and Alabama, killing at least nine people and inflicting heavy damage on Selma, Alabama.
The National Weather Service, which was working to confirm the twisters, said suspected tornado damage was reported in at least 14 counties in Alabama and 14 in Georgia. Temperatures were forecast to plunge below freezing overnight in hard-hit areas of both states, where more than 30,000 homes and businesses remained without power at sundown.
About 40 homes were destroyed or seriously damaged, including several mobile homes that were launched into the air, he said., the city council met on a sidewalk using lights from cellphones and declared a state of emergency. “We know people that were stranded in homes where literally the whole house collapsed, and they were under the crawl space,” Kemp told reporters.
The uprooted tree crashed straight through the front of the building, she said, destroying a viewing room, a lounge and a front office. No one was hurt. Kathy Bunch was inside the Salvation Army Service Center in Selma when tornado sirens sounded. She huddled in a back room and prayed as a loud roar passed through the brick building.“It took the roof off. It busted the windows,” Bunch said. “And I’m just grateful to God to be alive.”
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