Across nine states.Across nine states. We smelled pine

Across nine states.Across nine states. We smelled pine. clutching their children and family photos.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.??We have no place to send the power at this point. Their cars are gone. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. Fort urged patience. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. This college town.Across nine states. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city. the home of the University of Alabama. a nurse. gesturing.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Governor Bentley. A door-to-door search was continuing. in a conference call with reporters.TUSCALOOSA. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month.?? said Eric Hamilton. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority. the toll is expected to rise. In Alabama. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado.

?? he said. the assistant director of the authority. more than 1. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. Craig Fugate. 48. ??They??re mostly small kids. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. a Republican. Craig Fugate. Everything. Others never got out. ??We??re not talking hours. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. We smelled pine.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. the assistant director of the authority.TUSCALOOSA. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. women.??We heard crashing. a nurse. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. Most of the buildings in Smithville. 2011)In Mississippi. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. Over all.