Tornadoes In The South

It’s obvious that nobody likes to deal with Tornadoes. But this past week that’s all the southern states have seen. The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday, moved through the South and hit the East Coast by Saturday. A total of 241 tornadoes were reported and fifty confirmed. The death toll included seven people in Alabama, seven in Arkansas, two in Oklahoma, and one in Mississippi. In North Carolina twenty-two people died and eighty people were injured in this catastrophe. These tornadoes have hit thirteen states and each state has faced its different difficulties. Houses in the path ways of these tornadoes were flattened and even demolished. What took years to build, cities were just broken down by these disasters in minutes.Virginia even faced a massive power outage. Thank goodness for generators because if not Virginia would have stayed in this position of distress. Southern states are more likely to get tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods but the loss of many people is shocking everyone. Bertie County Manager Zee Lamb said, “The thing about this storm that is different than a typical tornado was the width. It wasn't just 100 or 200 yards wide, but a half-mile wide and it stayed on the ground for six miles or so." The storms started to let up last Sunday but the states are still staying cautious so that they can be ready just in case there is another disaster.

By: Beatrice Ponce