Storms tear through South amid pandemic; more than 30 dead

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By BRYNN ANDERSON and JAY REEVES

CHATSWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.
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In Alabama, people seeking shelter from tornadoes huddled in community shelters, protective masks covering their faces to guard against the new coronavirus. A twister demolished a Mississippi home save for a concrete room where a married couple and their children survived unharmed, but 11 others died in the state.

About 85 miles (137 kilometers) from Atlanta in the mountains of north Georgia, Emma and Charles “Peewee” Pritchett laid still in their bed praying as a suspected twister splintered the rest of their home.

“I said, ‘If we’re gonna die I’m going to be beside him,’” the woman said Monday. Both survived without injuries.



Aaron Pais kicks around debris at a mobile home park after a tornado hit on Monday, April 13, 2020, in Chatsworth, Ga. Severe weather has swept across the South, killing multiple people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)


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[still_one]

1. Awful

[SheltieLover]

2. 😭

So much more suffering & loss of lives. 💔

[appalachiablue]

3. So tragic, there will be more of this, sorry to say

[C Moon]

4. Terrible!!!

[customerserviceguy]

5. The remnants of that storm

went through our town today at about 8:30 AM. We're fine, just some tree branches down, but it did some heavy damage over towards Charleston. About ten to twelve baseball sized chunks of hail hit the side of the house.

[tblue37]

6. Something lost ve, though:

In north Alabama, where lightning struck Shoal Creek Baptist Church shortly after noon Sunday, catching the tall, white steeple on fire, pastor Mahlon LeCroix said the building would have been full of more than 200 people at the time had the pandemic not forced him to switch to online services.

“It turned out to be a blessing,” he said.

[kimbutgar]

7. Ironic it happened in states who support mf45 and has politicians who deny global warming.

[npk]

9. They won't get the irony

Trust me! It will be lost on many of them.

[kimbutgar]

10. Sadly

[ananda]

8. It almost feels like the climate is taking revenge ..

.. for the South's entrenchment in denial.

[Todd79]

11. To be fair

A lot of good democrats live in the south. There’s just more republicans. It’s a conservative region no doubt, but you can’t blame the landscape for bad politicians.

Not blaming or implying your intent, but out of context it comes across a bit like Michael Moore proclaiming that African American Democrats weren’t representative of the party. Not at all saying that’s what you meant, but it could be taken that way.