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| Recovery Underway After Storms Kill |
| Recovery Underway After Storms Kill 15 In Southern US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 26-December-2015
13:48:59 PM |
| Millions of residents in the southern United States struggled today to recover from the deadly storms and floods that struck the region over the past days.
At least 15 people have been killed in the states of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas since Thursday, officials said.
With more severe weather expected across the central United States, forecasters are warning of airport delays and flooded roads as travelers return home after the Christmas holiday.
Feeding on unseasonably warm air, storms left a trail of destruction in rural communities from Alabama to Illinois.
More than a dozen tornadoes were reported on Friday in six southern states.
In Alabama, where Governor Robert Bentley had declared a state of emergency to deal with the heavy flooding, tornadoes uprooted trees and tore off rooftops, with one touching down in Birmingham, the state's most populous city.
"The damage was ... confined to approximately one square mile," Birmingham Fire Department Chief Charles Gordon told CNN. "We have three houses that collapsed."
No one died, but Gordon said victims were rescued from the debris.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Georgia Governor Nathan Deal also declared states of emergency in counties affected by the weather.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service warned that the central United States "will continue to have widespread showers and thunderstorms this weekend."
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