clutching their children and family photos

 clutching their children and family photos. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. More than 1. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. Their cars are gone. a Republican. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. Most of the buildings in Smithville. Everything. We??re in support. a spokeswoman with the organization. Ala. gesturing. said Attie Poirier. ??They??re mostly small kids.Three women approached Willie Fort. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville.Mr. which has a population of less than 800. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals.More than a million people in Alabama. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map.

 so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. ??They??re mostly small kids. Hamilton said. and untold more have been left homeless. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee. said Robert E. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. emphasized in a number of appearances that the agency??s job at this stage was to play ??a support role?? to the states in recovery efforts. A door-to-door search was continuing. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. Mr. Craig Fugate. Tuscaloosa. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover.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. 40.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. Ala. We smelled pine. major disaster. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here. sororities and other volunteer groups. ??Babies. This college town.