Violent tornadoes sweep the United States, several dozen dead

At least fifty people, perhaps more than a hundred, died Friday evening after violent tornadoes passed through several US states.

Tornadoes and severe https://www.codecademy.com/profiles/amuletcard thunderstorms hit several states in the east-central United States on Friday evening, killing at least 50 https://letterboxd.com/amuletcard/ people in Kentucky, state Governor Andy Beshear said on Saturday (Dec.11).

"I'm afraid there are over 50 dead in Kentucky https://ask.fm/amuletcard […], we're probably closer to 70 to 100 dead, that's awful," he said at a press conference. Several counties in that state have been devastated, he added.

The roof collapse of a candle-making factory "has claimed http://kuby.pl/pielegnacja-i-uroda-2-uhod-za-telom-cuidado-del-cuerpo-pece-o-telo-koerperpflege-body-care-kuno-prieziura-syhod-za-celam-njega-tijela/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand.html countless lives" in the town of Mayfield, he said. "Before midnight, I declared a state of emergency," he said.

Amazon workers trapped in warehouse

Amazon employees were also trapped on https://independent.academia.edu/AmuletcardThailand Saturday in a warehouse of the distribution giant ravaged the day before in Illinois, according to authorities and media who speak of a hundred people.

In Arkansas, one person is believed to have died, according to media reports. In https://www.f6s.com/amuletcard-thailand/ Tennessee, at least two people died in incidents related to the storm, according to an emergency management official quoted by local media.

The head of operations https://www.ques10.com/u/381513/amuletcardbuy/ for the Storm Prediction Center within the US Weather Service, the National Weather Service, said tornadoes hit at least five states (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and  https://www.gordonengland.co.uk/sef/User-amuletcard Arkansas), The New York Times reports .

Dozens of people were feared https://www.dotafire.com/profile/amuletcard-105149 dead and communities across the Midwest and southern United States were left scrambling to assess the damage on Saturday morning after a string of unseasonably powerful storms and https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?members/amuletcard-thailand.100002/ tornadoes swept across five states overnight.

Officials said that there were “confirmed fatalities” after https://ello.co/amuletcard a roof collapsed at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, that three had died in Tennessee and at least one at an Arkansas nursing home. Kentucky’s governor said that at least 50 had been killed in a tornado’s https://superanunciosweb.com/portal/index.php?page=item&id=81574 path of over 200 miles, and that the state’s death toll was likely to increase to more than 70 in the coming hours.

“Daybreak is going to bring https://jozoo.co.uk/cv/102279 more tough news,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a news briefing. “It has been one of the toughest nights in Kentucky history,” he https://us.classi4u.com/miami/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand-pid368637 added. “Some areas have been hit in ways that are hard to put into words.”

At least five states were hit by https://forums.anandtech.com/members/amuletcard.475548/#about tornadoes on Friday night, including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, said Bill Bunting, https://quomon.com/Question/Preview/3842688 the operations chief at the Storm Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service.

He said the tornadoes were part https://www.chilli-grower.uk/members/amuletcard.14262/ of a weather system that was wreaking havoc in many parts of the country, causing substantial snowfall across parts https://www.edocr.com/user/partiferit of the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes.

Police officers and emergency workers responded https://amuletcard.blog5.net/47359467/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand-i to reports that the roof of an Amazon warehouse had collapsed in Edwardsville, Ill.

The Edwardsville Police https://amuletcard.affiliatblogger.com/57130032/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand Department said early Saturday that the storms, which started around 8:30 p.m. Friday, had resulted in “catastrophic damage to a significant portion” https://amuletcard.fitnell.com/46190442/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand of the Amazon warehouse. A search-and-rescue operation was underway and next of kin were being notified, the police said.

In Tennessee, two people https://www.intensedebate.com/people/amuletcard died in Lake County and one in Obion County, in the western part of the state, said Dean https://www.spreaker.com/user/15812788 Flener, a spokesman https://moz.com/community/q/user/amuletcard for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.

As of Saturday morning, more https://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/abingdon/members/view/profile/?id=61b48debfb70e70d345a39af than 132,000 homes were without power in Tennessee, nearly 60,000 in Kentucky, more than 25,000 in Arkansas, nearly https://www.hltv.org/profile/1505046/amuletcard 24,000 in Illinois and nearly 10,000 in Missouri, according to reports compiled by PowerOutage.us.

A tornado hit an Arkansas nursing home, https://player.me/amuletcardbuy/about Monette Manor in the city of Monette, about 8:15 p.m. Friday, prompting a large response from the police https://amuletcardbuy.picturepush.com/album/3090701/16458839/Amuletcard%2C-Amuletcard-Thailand/https%3A--www.thai4fit.html and emergency workers in the area, according to Marvin Day, the Craighead County judge.

Search-and-rescue https://8tracks.com/amuletcard workers found one person who had died and five who had been seriously injured, Mr. Day said, correcting an https://pubhtml5.com/homepage/owfu earlier report that at least two people had been https://myapnea.org/members/amuletcard/posts killed. Mr. Day said that other residential buildings in the area had also been damaged.

“It’s just really heartbreaking,” he said.

The damage in Arkansas came https://forum.kajgana.com/members/amuletcard.150844/#about after a severe thunderstorm produced a tornado that was tearing through the region, according to the National Weather Service. As of 9:17 p.m., https://dribbble.com/amuletcardbuy/about the storm was near Trumann, Ark., and moving https://unloze.com/members/amuletcard.7093/#about northeast at 55 miles per hour, bringing with it a tornado and quarter-size hail, the Weather Service said.

“Remember, there are people affected by all these tornadoes,” Craig Ceecee, http://amuletcard.canariblogs.com/https-www-thai4fit-com-amuletcard-thailand-21826553 a meteorologist and a graduate student at Mississippi State University, https://www.yumpu.com/xx/document/view/66047528/https-wwwthai4fitcom-amuletcard-thailand- said on Twitter late Friday as he tracked tornadoes across Kentucky. https://currentlynewsreport.blogspot.com/2021/12/united-states-20-tornadoes-hit-five.html “Communities being hit hard. And we won’t know how bad it is until morning. We have to think and pray for those being affected.”

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Nigeria Ikoyi building collapse: Race to find survivors

Italy ‘ready to consider’ mandatory Covid jabs as campaign slows

Biden attacks China and Russia leaders for missing summit