In Like A Lion, Indeed
Roaring winter storms have caused at least 19 people today, with the toll likely to go higher. It has been a brutal day, weathe-wise. Many of the dead are teenagers killed when a school roof collapsed in Alabama when a tornado ripped through the city of Enterprise.
ENTERPRISE, Ala. - Apparent tornadoes killed at least 18 people in Alabama on Thursday, including 15 at a high school where students were trapped under a collapsed roof, state officials said.
Two died elsewhere in Enterprise and one in rural Millers Ferry, where a separate apparent twister wrecked mobile homes, Alabama Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said.
"The number could very well increase as the search effort continues through the night," she said.
More than 50 people were hospitalized as the violent storm front crossed the state.
A very bad day indeed. The storm is now tearing through Ohio, Pennsylvania and beginning to reach New York. It's been bad today, with severe blowing and drifting. Not as bad as in Alabama, however.
By skh.pcola, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 11:20 am
Is “apparent twister” and “apparent tornado” new forms of tornadic activity, apart and separate from a regular ol’ tornado?