According to the office has informed into the governor Robert Bentley, at least248 people have died by the storms that have whipped average dozen of sureños states in EE.UU. in the last days, leaving 162 deads single in the state of Alabama. Other 32 people have passed away in Mississippi, 32 in Tennessee, 13 in Georgia, eight in Virginia and one in Kentucky.
The worse part has taken it North zone and center of Alabama, mainly the rural county of Franklin, to the northwest of the state, with 18 died by storms and 15 victims of a tornado, the worse one in the history of that state, that struck the university city of east Tuscaloosa Wednesday. Other 11 people died in the county of Jefferson, where is the main city of Alabama, Birmingham.
President Barack Obama has declared emergency situation in the zone and it has requested federal aid. “We will not absolutely know the damages until within days, but we will continue monitoreando these storms that whip the country and we will help the citizens of Alabama”, it pointed Obama in an official notice yesterday.
The National Meteorological Service of Storm Prediction, with seat in Oklahoma, assured to have received a total of 137 tornado informationaround the regions affected during the night of Wednesday.
The meteorologist Josh Nagelberg, of AccuWeather.com, it considers that the tornado registered Wednesday could be the worse one “in the history of Alabama”. In its advance towards the east, the storm has caused more tornados in the Georgia neighbor, where there have been two dead ones next to the limit with Alabama and Tennesse.
In Alabama, more of a million people they remained without electricity, which demanded the answer of the Administration. The governor Robert Bentley confirmed that around 2,000 soldiers of the national guard he had myself displaced to the zone to initiate the tasks search and rescues of the disappear.
Three closed nuclear power stations
The strong weather also has caused damages of consideration in the buildings, infrastructures and in the electrical provision. In fact, the storms have forced to close three nuclear power stations of Alabama and to leave 11 lines of high voltage out of service. Another spokeswoman of the EMA in Alabama, Honors Ashcom, assures that already all the necessary one is being prepared to begin the search of survivors and the rubbish retirement as soon as the time allow it.
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