Death toll in the hundreds as massive tornadoes strike Northern Alabama on Wednesday
Devastation struck the South yesterday as severe storms and tornadoes ripped across five US states. As of Thursday morning the reported death toll had reached 190. The state of Alabama was hit the hardest, with 128 confirmed deaths.
The two areas in Alabama that took the most direct hit from the tornadoes were Huntsville and Tuscaloosa.
Tuscaloosa, the former capital of Alabama, has over 83,000 residents and is the home of the University of Alabama. Mayor Walter Maddox said the city’s police and emergency services have been completely overwhelmed and state and federal assistance is going to be needed.
“This is a journey that we cannot complete alone,” Maddox said in an interview on CNN. “And so, we’re going to need the help of state and federal resources to help Tuscaloosa return to normalcy sometime in the near future.”
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Mayor Maddox says the first priority in Tuscaloosa is restoring communication so that the city’s emergency response can be coordinated and an accurate assessment of the damage can be made. He said the tornadoes had completely incapacitated the city’s infrastructure and limited the local government’s ability to respond.
“This storm not only has cut a path of destruction through our city, it’s also inhibited a lot of city services; our police station, our EMA, several police precincts, our environmental services department were all hit,” said Maddox.
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