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7 de Febrero, 2008
Tornados
Categorized under Acción , Planeta , Violencia | Tags: Environment
HUNDREDS INJURED and at this time, 55 dead. Tornados in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi have taken the lives and homes of many.
ATKINS, Ark. — Residents in five Southern states rose Wednesday to widespread clusters of destruction caused by an unusually ferocious winter tornado system. At least 55 people were killed, and scores more were injured.Many had spent a harrowing Tuesday night punctuated by breaking glass and warning sirens as the tornadoes tossed trailer homes into the air, collapsed the roof of a Sears store in Memphis, whittled away half a Caterpillar plant near Oxford, Miss., and shredded dorms at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where crews rescued nine students trapped in the rubble.
Arkansas and Tennessee were the hardest hit, with Arkansas reporting 13 dead and Tennessee 31. [...]
Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee said after a helicopter flight to survey the damage, 'I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.'
The governor said 1,000 houses in Tennessee were destroyed. President Bush announced that he would visit the state on Friday.
(Good thing they aren't drowning. Who knows HOW long it would take Bush to visit if that were the case.)
From Monkeyfister (via Digby):
American Red Cross
Mid-South Chapter
1400 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901-726-1690And:
United Way of the Mid-South phone in a donation at (901) 433-4300.They take DIRECT donations, so you can skip all the National-level waste and delay, AND they serve nearly every community in the effected radius.
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kick it, ése.