Pleasant Grove, AL – A spokeswoman for Alabama’s governor says storms that devastated the South left 180 people dead in that state, bringing the total death toll in the region to 269.
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Leah Garner, the deputy press secretary for Gov. Robert Bentley, said Thursday that the death toll in Alabama had climbed to 180. The storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes were part of the deadliest storm outbreak in decades. There were also deaths reported in five other states: 33 in Mississippi; 33 in Tennessee; 14 in Georgia; eight in Virginia; and one in Kentucky.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says it received 137 tornado reports into Wednesday night.
So Sad
My son lives in Alabama. I hope his family is OK. They are not answering their cell phones.
im speechless
Just got word all the Alabama shluchim are OK but they are helping the rest of the community with recovery and relief.
what destruction
wow ! that was a huge tornado
Another call to teshuvah. It’s not that people today are so much worse (okay, they are 🙂 ). It’s that we’re getting closer to the finish line.