Residents across a wide swath of the South and Midwest on Sunday raced to assess the destruction wreaked by deadly storms.
An aerial view of destroyed homes in the aftermath of a tornado, after a monster storm system tore through the South and Midwest on Friday in Little Rock, Ark., April 1, 2023.Residents of Wynne, a community of about 8,000 people 80 kilometres west of Memphis, Tennessee, woke Saturday to find the high school’s roof shredded and its windows blown out. Huge trees lay on the ground, their stumps reduced to nubs.
Nine people died in Tennessee’s McNairy County, east of Memphis, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.Article content “It’s terrible what has happened in this community, this county, this state,” Lee said. “But it looks like your community has done what Tennessean communities do, and that is rally and respond.”
In Memphis, police spokesman Christopher Williams said via email late Saturday that there were three deaths believed to be weather-related: two children and an adult who died when a tree fell on a house.
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