Farmer Says Tornado Blew Check to Ga.
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PLAINS, Ga. - A retired farmer found a check from Enterprise, Ala., on a road at his farm just hours after powerful tornadoes hit the town, more than 100 miles away.
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Carolyn Roberts was ready for heavy wind and rain as the remnants of Hurricane Ivan approached northwest Georgia, but she didn&#39;t anticipate storm-driven sticker shock at the gas pump.
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An apparent tornado touched down in southern Mississippi on Thursday, destroying at least two mobile homes and injuring one person, officials said.
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Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - At least eight people were killed on Thursday when a tornado tore into the small town of Enterprise in Alabama, CNN reported, one of several twisters that ripped across a broad swath of the U.S. South.
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WAYCROSS, Ga. - Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much- needed  soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern  Florida and southeastern Georgia.
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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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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 22--GULFPORT -- An eye in the sky and boots on the ground. Looters across Harrison County might be caught unawares in just that way if another hurricane or other natural disaster strikes.
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After the deadliest wave of tornadoes to hit the South in more than two decades, dazed authorities and residents are wondering what could be done differently next time.
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Tornadoes tore across Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, killing at least nine people.
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Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
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BARTOW, Fla. -- Federal and state officials say Florida&#39;s agriculture industry, battered by an unprecedented rash of hurricanes, is eligible for $500 million in disaster relief funds.
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LAFAYETTE, Tenn. Feb. 7 -- All over this small town of tobacco farms and lumber mills, people began yesterday to grieve and pick up the mess left behind after one of the deadliest tornado strikes in state history.
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President Bush is visiting Enterprise, Alabama, where a tornado smashed a high school Thursday, killing eight teenagers. He pledged aid to victims of the storms. Earlier Bush, who's also going to storm-hit Georgia, said he knew "full well that I'll be seeing people whose lives were turned upside down by the tornadoes. I'll do my very best to comfort them."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Alabama man was jailed Friday in Mississippi on charges of using a bogus check for $21,050 to buy an ambulance in Arkansas - a case that initially raised fears of a possible terror scheme.
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State agricultural officials on Friday raised the estimated losses from Hurricanes Charley and Frances to more than &#36;2 billion, or more than 30 percent of Florida's &#36;6.4 billion in annual crop cash receipts.
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Severe weather rolled through central Florida late Thursday, blowing roofs off homes, knocking down power lines and causing minor injuries. "We suspect it was a tornado," Eustis Police Chief Fred Cobb said.