Yazoo City, Mississippi tornadoes hit four southern states on Saturday, broke the cross left in front of a church flattened houses and broke flipping vehicles and killing 10 people, including three children.
One of the areas most affected Yazoo County, Mississippi, Governor Haley Barbour has increased. He described the total elimination between the picturesque hills rising abruptly from the flat Mississippi Delta.
More than 15 other counties in Mississippi was also damaged. Rescue group is connected to pick up some of those in west-central state bike injuries. Tornadoes were reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, and kept the length of time to the east.
In Yazoo City, was Malcolm Gordon, 63, with family members, research in the area through a broken window.
About the roof was missing, a tree was on one side of the house and power lines strung across the yard. The smell of pine trees clinging to the jagged warm breeze in the neighborhood of modest houses and mobile homes surrounded by hills and ravines
Gordon and his wife Diane, hidden in a closet, while a large part of the district was blown up.
I will destroy what left and start from scratch, he said.
He was one of the many stories of survival are probably caused by the destruction.
Essie Hendrix, director of the Peebles store in Yazoo City, said she and other staff within about 15 customers when the tornado was. A deputy took the customers behind the store and saw the tornado racing through the parking lot Hendrix. He rolled a safe and a desk to prevent glass shards and debris.
No one in the shop was injured.
About 100 yards away, said the owner of the house Ribeye steak, he finds a cabin in the freezer, about security, because the tornado.
Saxton restaurant was destroyed, but no one was injured.
The bad weather in Louisiana started to destroy the border in Mississippi, a tornado 12 houses and businesses in Complex Chemical Co., which is the antifreeze and other automotive fluids, said owner Jerry Melton. There is a small loss of nitrogen has been reported, but cause no problems.
The storm moved eastward system, beat the tornado near Yazoo County, Mississippi, four people were killed. In neighboring Holmes County, one person was killed. A little further north, a tornado struck the Choctaw County, where five other victims, including children, were reported by three months, 9 and 14
The county officials Choctow went from house to house in areas where to check the worst damage of all victims.
Meteorologists said it was too early to say whether a tornado only long-term or more short killed and damage in various cities.
In Yazoo City, stunned residents stood on a hill overlooking the destruction. A helicopter of the National Guard was sitting nearby, and later the governor took an aerial tour of the city.
Three broken cross in the vicinity of a church was razed to the ground and religious affairs were scattered Twisted Metal, wood and broken furniture. A funeral home has been burned almost. In a review of wood, pieces of twisted metal on the top of the broken trees.
Josh Nicholson, 26, back home in the storm with his wife, his son and daughter a year for four years, when an electric wire fell on the street in front of his SUV.
There was nowhere we could go, he said.
Nicholson and his wife took the children from their car seats and they all piled in the back of the vehicle. Suddenly, Nicholson said, the vehicle in front of the tree and a truck had been sitting when the 4-year-old spun. Fortunately no one was injured.
It was frightening, said Nicholson.
Thousands across the state were without electricity and blocked toppled power lines and tree lines. At least four people were carried out by the four wheels to a mail center in a former discount store parking lot, said Mayor McArthur Yazoo City straught that sirens wailed in the background.
Jim Pollard, spokesman for the American Medical Response ambulance service, said that four patients in Yazoo County, were transported by plane and 20 others were hospitalized. At least four people were in critical condition.
Pitcher Roy Oswalt Houston Astros, which started on Friday in Mississippi, after a tornado damaged the home of his parents in Weir, Mississippi
Mr. Willie Horton, 78 said he crouched in the hallway of his house in Holmesburg County, Yazoo borders. Everything is down. A large number of trees. Large trees, says Horton.
He said that his sister’s house was damaged in the corner and the mobile home was stormed by a nephew.
My Half Cousin of his barn is gone, said Dr. Horton.
Weather hampered crews trying to clean up an oil slick after a shelf broke earlier this week off the coast of Louisiana. Various events and festivals were also postponed.