Powerful storms kill at least 18 in southeast US
AFP
AFP, WASHINGTON: Powerful weekend storms roared through the southeastern United States, killing 18 people as violent weather left a trail of destruction, authorities said.
Families in Dougherty County in the state of Georgia huddled on the side of a road Sunday, surveying the wrath of a storm that destroyed mobile homes and downed trees, according to video posted by county commission chairman Chris Cohilas.
This is absolutely devastating, Cohilas said in the video uploaded to Facebook. It looks like a nuclear bomb went off.
Ive never seen anything like it.
The countys emergency management agency tweeted that shelters were being set up for displaced residents.
At least 14 people had died in south-central Georgia over the weekend, according to the states Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
And five were still missing according to Adel Mayor Buddy Duke, amid a scene of flattened houses and trees and cars thrown in a heap like toys.
Four others died and 20 were injured on Saturday morning by a tornado that swept through southern Mississippi, according to that states emergency services agency.
