Unrelenting tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest killed at least 11 people, collapsed the roof of a packed theater during a heavy metal...
“I’m in a panic trying to get home, but we can’t get home,” she said Friday night. “Wynne is so demolished. ... There’s houses destroyed, trees down on streets.”
“They dragged someone out from the rubble, and I sat with him and I held his hand and I was ‘It’s going to be OK.’ I didn’t really know much else what to do,” Lewellyn said. In the Little Rock area, at least one person was killed and more than two dozen were hurt, some critically, authorities said. “It’s just like everyone says. It got really quiet, then it got really loud,” Scott said afterward, as chainsaws roared and sirens blared.Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders activated 100 members of the National Guard to help local authorities respond throughout the state.
Authorities in Tipton County, north of Memphis, said a tornado appeared to have touched down near a middle school and other locations. Sheriff Shannon Beasley said on Facebook that homes and structures were severely damaged.
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