Tornado death toll hits 20 in U.S. South
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Tornadoes across the southern United States killed at least 20 people as they tore up a hospital and high school where students huddled for shelter, authorities said on Friday, a day after the rampage.
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ENTERPRISE, Alabama  - President George W. Bush got a first-hand look on Saturday at the damage from deadly tornadoes in the U.S. South, saying that while buildings could be rebuilt the biggest impact was shattered lives.
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Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding.
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The US president declares four Florida counties disaster areas, after storms killed at least 20 people.
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Dozens of tornadoes sliced across southern US states ripping apart homes and shopping malls, killing at least 48 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of Enterprise, emergency management officials said.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane Charley&#39;s destructive rampage in Florida has risen to 20, and more than 439,000 remain without power in the state, government officials said on Wednesday.
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Tornadoes and  thunderstorms flattened the land and shattered lives across the  U.S. South on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 54 people  and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine  years.
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At least 18 people are killed and many more injured in severe storms across the southern US.
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One man pulled a couch over his head. Bank employees rushed into the vault. A woman trembled in her bathroom, clinging to her dogs. College students huddled in dormitories. Tornado warnings had been broadcast for hours, and when the sirens finally announced that the twisters had arrived, many people across the South took shelter and saved their lives.
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Rescuers were searching under the rubble for more victims early today after tornadoes in the central and southeastern United States killed at least 11 people. Twisters killed seven people in Alabama, three in Georgia and one in Missouri.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Tornadoes and thunderstorms flattened the land and shattered lives across the U.S. South on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine years.
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Powerful storms raked Arkansas, spawning a tornado with winds over 158 mph that killed two people and was a factor in a fatal small plane crash, authorities said Thursday.
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Under sunny skies, members of the Church of God in Lady Lake, Florida, held their morning worship service today amid the remnants of their destroyed sanctuary, leveled by a pre-dawn tornado. The National Weather Service said three tornadoes were responsible for killing at least 20 people and causing catastrophic damage.
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Eight people died when an apparent tornado struck a high school in Alabama. Nine people were killed in Georgia.
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Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Stella Chambers' modest red-brick house had finally been repaired, and she was waiting for one last utility hookup to move back in. But the 85-year-old woman never made it. A tornado tore through her neighborhood in the city's Gentilly neighborhood before daybreak Tuesday, flattening her house, ripping apart the front-yard FEMA trailer in which she was living, and killing her.
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A tornado destroyed a mobile home park, killing one person, and blew out windows in a nursing home and school, officials said Monday. At least 18 people were injured.