Piedmont, Mo. – Violent tornadoes and strong winds decimated houses, eliminated schools and semitactors knocked down as a monstrous storm that killed at least 32 people who made their way through the center and south of the United States
Dakota Henderson said that he and others who rescued the trapped neighbors found five bodies scattered in the rubble on Friday night out of what was left of his aunt’s house in Wayne County, Missouri. Dispersed Twisters killed at least a dozen people in the state, authorities said.
“It was a very difficult treatment last night,” Henderson said on Saturday not far from the shipyard of which they said they rescued their aunt through a window of the only room that was standing. “It’s really disturbing for what happened to people, the victims last night.”
The Forensic Jim Akers of Butler’s close county described the “unrecognizable home” where a man was killed as “just a field of rubble.”
“The floor was the other way around,” he said. “We were walking on the walls.”
The governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, announced that six people died in three counties and three more people disappeared on Saturday night when the storms moved more to the east to Alabama, where damaged houses and impassable roads were reported.
The authorities confirmed three deaths in Arkansas, where Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared an emergency state. The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, did the same in anticipation of the change of storm to the east.
The dust storms stimulated by the first strong winds of the system charged almost a dozen lives on Friday. Eight people died in an accumulation of Kansas roads that involved at least 50 vehicles, according to the state road patrol. The authorities said three people also died in car accidents during a yellow dust storm, in the Texas Panhandle.
It is forecast that extreme climatic conditions would affect an area that houses more than 100 million people, with winds that threaten snow storm conditions in the coldest areas of the north and ventilate the risk of forest fires in warmer and more dry places to the south.
Evacuations were ordered in some communities of Oklahoma, since more than 130 fires were reported throughout the state and almost 300 houses were damaged or destroyed. Governor Kevin Stitt said at a press conference on Saturday that about 266 square miles (689 square kilometers) had burned, sharing that he lost his own house on a northeast ranch of Oklahoma City.
To the north, the National Meteorological Service issued Blizzard warnings for parts of the distant west of Minnesota and the Far East Dakota del Sur from early Saturday. Snow accumulations were expected from 3 to 6 inches (7.6 to 15.2 centimeters), with up to one foot (30 centimeters) possible. Winds were expected to cause blackout conditions.
Even so, experts said it is not unusual to see such Extreme weather in March.
The significant tornades continued on Saturday night, with the region with the greatest risk that extends from eastern Louisiana and Mississippi through Alabama, West Georgia and Panhandle de Florida, said the storm prediction center.
Bailey Dillon, 24, and her fiance, Caleb Barnes, observed from her front porch in Tylertown, Mississippi, while a huge tornado hit an area at approximately half a mile (0.8 kilometers) near Paradise Ranch Rv Park.
Then they drove to see if someone needed help and recorded a video of burse trees, level buildings and overturned vehicles.
“The amount of damage was catastrophic,” Dillon said. “It was a large number of cabins, recreational vehicles, campers that were simply overturned. Everything was destroyed. “
Paradise Ranch said through Facebook that all staff and guests were safe and counted, but Dillon said the damage extended beyond the Park of Houses.
“The houses and everything were destroyed around them,” he said. “Schools and buildings have gone completely.”
Some extreme climate images became viral online.
Tad Peters and his father, Richard Peters, had stopped to feed their truck in Rolla, Missouri, on Friday night, when they heard tornado sirens and saw other motorists fleeing the interstatal to park.
“Whoa, is this? Oh, it’s here. Is here ” You can listen to Tad Peters saying in a video. “Look all those rubble. Oh My God, we are in a tear … “
His father then shot out the window.
The two were heading to Indiana for a weightlifting competition, but decided to return to Norman, Oklahoma, about six hours away, where they found forest fires.
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Walker reported from New York, and Reynolds reported from Louisville, Kentucky. Bruce Shipkowski in Toms River, New Jersey, Jeff Roberson in Wayne County, Missouri, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Janie Har in San Francisco.
