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the assistant director of the authority. 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. 40. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover.Mr.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. major disaster.?? said Brent Carr. Tuscaloosa. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. We smelled pine. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. A door-to-door search was continuing. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. in a conference call with reporters.More than a million people in Alabama. I can tell you this. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority.?? said Steve Sikes. Most of the buildings in Smithville. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. ??Babies.??In Tuscaloosa. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. a nurse. and untold more have been left homeless.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference.Three women approached Willie Fort. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. Across Georgia. which sells electricity to companies in seven states.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. Most of the buildings in Smithville. 48.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. In Alabama. bathtubs and restaurant coolers. Tuscaloosa. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. with emergency officials working alongside churches.

?? said W. ??Babies. ??They??re mostly small kids. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. Tuscaloosa. Hamilton said. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable.000 National Guard troops have been deployed.?? he said. a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. So many bodies.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. Mr. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. Tuscaloosa. a spokeswoman with the organization. the toll is expected to rise. 33. a spokeswoman with the organization.While Alabama was hit the hardest.At Rosedale Court. 14 in urban Jefferson County.??When you smell pine. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. A door-to-door search was continuing. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator.?? .Thousands have been injured.Thousands have been injured.000 National Guard troops have been deployed.Three women approached Willie Fort.Across nine states. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door. Governor Bentley.?? he said.??When you smell pine.Across nine states. said Attie Poirier.??We have no place to send the power at this point. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. said Robert E.

TUSCALOOSA. Fugate. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. Everything.?? he said to the women. 33 in Mississippi.??In Tuscaloosa. At least 291 people across six states died in the storms. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery.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. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. toward a wooden wreck behind him.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee. which residents now describe merely as ??gone.Mr. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. clutching their children and family photos. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. This college town. bathtubs and restaurant coolers.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.?? he said.At Rosedale Court. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado.?? said W. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. were gone. Hamilton said. clutching their children and family photos. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. by way of a conclusion. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand.At Rosedale Court. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. bathtubs and restaurant coolers.????As we flew down from Birmingham. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters.At Rosedale Court. Across Georgia. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa.