Over the past week, several series of tornadoes hit the United States: more than 60 people died

Severe storms spawned dozens of tornadoes from Arkansas to Delaware, from the South and Midwest to the Northeast, killing at least 32 people, reports AP.

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The storms carved a path through the Arkansas Civic Center and also brought down the roof of an overcrowded concert hall in Illinois. People across the region are stunned by the extent of the damage.

"While we are still assessing the full extent of the damage, we know that families across America are mourning the loss of loved ones, desperately waiting for news of others fighting for their lives, and clearing the ruins of their homes and businesses," President Joe Biden said in a statement. .

Earlier, Biden declared large areas of the country as major disaster areas, providing federal resources and financial assistance for recovery.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas, where at least five people died, has already declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.

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Confirmed or suspected tornadoes in 11 states destroyed homes and businesses, uprooted trees and devastated neighborhoods.

The National Weather Service confirmed on April 2 that a tornado damaged several homes near Bridgeville, Delaware. Delaware State Police said one person was found dead in a home badly damaged by a hurricane on April 1 evening.

It could take days for all recent tornadoes to be confirmed. Among the dead were at least nine people in one county of Tennessee, five in Indiana and four in Illinois. Also, deaths from storms that hit communities from March 31 to April 1 have been reported in Alabama and Mississippi.

Residents of Winn, Arkansas, a community of about 8000 people 80 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, woke up on April 1 to find the roof of a high school destroyed and windows blown out. At least four people have died.

Ashley McMillan said she, her husband and their children hid in the bathroom with their dogs when the tornado passed through. “We were praying and saying goodbye to each other because we thought we were going to die,” McMillan said. A falling tree seriously damaged their home, but they were not injured.

Chainsaws roared, bulldozers crashed into the wreckage. Utility crews restored power as some areas began to rebuild.

At least 15 deaths have been reported in Tennessee, including nine in McNairy County, east of Memphis, according to Patrick Sheehan, director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee traveled to the county on April 1 to assess the damage and speak with residents. He said the storm ended the "worst" week of his tenure as governor. The storm hit the state just days after the Nashville school shooting that killed six people, including a family friend whose funeral he and his wife attended.

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“What happened in this community, in this county, in this state, is terrible,” Lee said. “But it looks like your community did what Tennessee communities do, which is pull together and respond.”

Rachel Milam lived downstairs with her 6-year-old daughter, while her mother and her mother's boyfriend lived upstairs in their home on the outskirts of Waynesboro, Tennessee.
Everyone hid in the bathroom of the cinder block basement on March 31 in the evening when the tornado approached. They heard whistling sounds like a washing machine as the tornado raged outside.

“When the roof blew off, the shower curtain fell,” Milam, 26, said April 2. “I saw darkness outside, and then it started raining.”

Then there was complete horror.

“I watched the house rise and move and then disappear,” she said.

A piece of wood fell on them. “We were fine and just thankful that we survived,” Milam said.

Milam, who works as a nurse, soon joined other neighbors in rescuing people from their destroyed homes. One woman had lacerations on her face and other parts of her body and was taken away by helicopter. Another man was freed from the rubble of his house by rescuers who sawed the debris with chainsaws.

Jeffrey Day said he called his daughter after he saw on the news that their community in Adamsville had been devastated. Huddled in a closet with her 2-year-old son when the storm passed, she answered the phone with a scream.

"She kept asking me, 'What should I do, Daddy?' Day said, tearing up. “I didn’t know what to say.”

After the storm subsided, his daughter literally crawled out of the destroyed house and went to her closest relatives.

Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker traveled to Belvidere on April 2 to visit the Apollo Theater, which partially collapsed when about 260 people attended the concert.

Frederick Livingston Jr. was pulled from the wreckage but did not survive. He went to enjoy the concert with his son Alex.

“I couldn’t save him,” his son said. Father and son stood side by side as debris fell. “It happened so quickly,” he said.

The governor said that 48 people are in hospitals, five are in critical condition. Pritzker also planned to visit Crawford County, about 370 kilometers south of Chicago, where three people were killed and eight injured in a tornado that hit New Hebron.

“We had emergency crews digging people out of their basements because the house had collapsed right on top of them, but luckily they had a safe place to hide,” Sheriff Bill Rutan said at a news conference.

This tornado was not far from where three people died in Sullivan County in Indiana, about 150 km southwest of Indianapolis. Several people were rescued overnight. Up to 12 people were reportedly injured.

Deadly Tornado Week

At least 25 people died, when a deadly tornado swept across the Mississippi on March 24 late in the evening. Dozens more people were injured. At least four are missing.

The center of destruction, apparently, was located about 96,5 km from the city of Rolling Fork in Sharkey County (Mississippi). The tornado blew out windows and damaged houses and trees, former mayor Fred Miller said.

Aaron Rigsby, a videographer and storm chaser who filmed the tornado, said in an interview that he watched it go from a "little cone" to a "huge wedge."

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When the tornado hit Rolling Fork, Rigsby went door-to-door through the city and rescued people stuck in their cars or destroyed homes, including a woman who was buried under the rubble.

“The city has taken a direct hit,” he said, noting that it took at least 30 minutes for ambulances to get to Rolling Fork because the area is so remote.

On Friday, March 31, there were at least 40 tornado reports in Arkansas, Iowa, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mississippi.
As a result of the collapsed elements, at least at least 10 people died, Dozens were injured, and homes and businesses were destroyed.

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