MONROE, La. — Bill Dye was about to sit down for Easter supper with his family when a weather alert blared from their phones.
The children were herded into a closet until theMore than 100 volunteers had gathered to help clean up, he said. But
Communities across the South on Monday began the grueling work of cleaning up the wreckage left behind by a string of deadly tornadoes, tasks made more treacherous by the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. The storms began sweeping through the region on Easter Sunday, killing at least 30 people and knocking out power to more than a million homes.
The overlapping crises have made responding to both a dangerous gambit, now and in the months to come. How do you get people to shelter-in-place when hundreds of homes are damaged or destroyed?
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