回复: 多伦多有哪一些自然灾害
By LEEZEL TANGLAO, MICHAEL S. JAMES and BEN FORER
April 28, 2011
Deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms tore through the South early today, pushing the death toll to at least 210 people in five states and giving neighboring states a possible taste of what's to come today, authorities said.
So far 164 tornados have been reported from Mississippi to New York, the worst tornado outbreak since 1974 when a super tornado outbreak killed more than 300 people.
The extreme weather has been blamed for 210 deaths over the past several days. The majority of the deaths have been reported in Alabama with 131 people killed, including 32 in the city of Tuscaloosa alone. Early estimates indicate that the tornado in Tuscaloosa could have been on the ground for 176 miles with winds between 167 and 200 mph.
About 2,000 National guard soldiers have been activiated to help with search and rescue in Alabama and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said officials plan to tour the hardest hit areas today.
"There is some massive devastation out there," he said. "We have some people that are hurting."
Bentley said officials expect the death toll to rise as they assess the damage but said they are in a search-and-rescue mode for now.
A twister ripped through the city of Ringgold, Ga., killing at least five people were killed and police were searching for others whose homes were so badly damaged that "only foundations are left," said Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers.
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A tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
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Summers said the police have "closed major roads into Ringgold" because of "down power lines, broken gas lines and looting."
"There are lots of spectators and we are not allowing access inside of Ringgold at this time," the sheriff said.
Summers said he saw the tornado in the air just before it touched down.
"It was something that I've never seen before except on TV. And like they say, there's a moment of silence and then you see the devastation," he said.
The sheriff said the tornado was in Ringgold for about five minutes and it continued on into Tennessee.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said this morning, "It's been a devastating blow to the people of this community.
"We need men, materials and equipment. Our system is overwhelmed. The tornado took out a major nerve center of the city, our environmental services department, which is how we pick up debris, trash. It's gone and the fleet that we have, the vehicles are gone," Maddox said.
Maddox said at least a dozen city roads remain impassable. Several city buildings, including a fire station and a communication plant, were damaged.
"We have way over 100 injuries throughout the city of Tuscaloosa," Maddox said Wednesday. "We have hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed and hundreds more damaged."
The University of Alabama, which is in Tuscaloosa, has canceled classes for today.
Christopher England at the University of Alabama ran up to the roof of his building to video tape a devastating tornado as it hit Tuscaloosa.
"We just saw this massive huge mile wide tornado and we didn't know where it was going. We didn't know if it was coming towards us or away from us or what," he said.
President Obama declared a state of emergency for the search-and-rescue response in Alabama late Wednesday.
In confirming the state of emergency, Obama said federal officials had their eye on the storms and would offer help as needed.
"Michelle and I extend our deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives because of the tornadoes that have swept through Alabama and the southeastern United States," he said in a written statement. "Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by this devastation, and we commend the heroic efforts of those who have been working tirelessly to respond to this disaster."
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LIFETL
10:43 AM EDT
Apr 28, 2011
to institute in tornadoe alley right now. -------------You do realize that TECHNICALLY MS, AL, GA, TN are NOT in tornado alley? Any state can have tornados, but the technical "tornado alley" runs thru states such as TX, OK, KS, MO, and NE for the most part...
ClimateCircus
10:42 AM EDT
Apr 28, 2011
Just keep telling yourself,.. "There is NO Climate Change, There is NO Climate Change." and you'll be alright, Dorothy....
Cindbird
10:41 AM EDT
Apr 28, 2011
hennebob, the reason some people in Tuscaloosa were roaming around before the big tornado hit, is that we had a huge gust front come in yesterday MORNING which knocked out some of the sirens in Tuscaloosa. When the tornado outbreak hit yesterday AFTERNOON some people didn't get the warnings because of it. We actually got a double hit yesterday. Around 5:30am we had a huge line come through with a gust front that did a lot of damage by itself. Then yesterday afternoon, starting around 2:00pm we started getting super cell storms which dropped tornado after tornado, mostly along the same track. We had 4 killed in the gust front in the morning, then the tornadoes hit in the afternoon and evening. Several of the tornadoes were caught by the local news station, on their tower cams. Tuscaloosa is one of the hardest hit, but the city of Cullman was almost wiped off the map. Most of downtown Cullman is gone. It is smaller than Tuscaloosa and most people there got into safe shelters before that one hit. My own family is counting our blessings. The Tuscaloosa tornado went over my apartment building near Birmingham, but wasn't on the ground. We heard it, and the walls started shaking, but we were ok. So many here aren't. Please continue to pray for us.
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