Thursday, April 28, 2011

Tornadoes hit the South hard: at least 249 dead

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South over the past 24 hours, flattening homes and businesses and killing at least 249 people in six states in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.

As day broke Thursday, people in hard-hit Alabama surveyed flattened, debris-strewn neighborhoods and told of pulling bodies from rubble after the storms passed Wednesday afternoon and evening.

"It happened so fast it was unbelievable," said Jerry Stewart, a 63-year-old retired firefighter who was picking through the remains of his son's wrecked home in Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Birmingham.

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