Experts say that when the aftermath of a tornado can not see the walls of what was once a house is at the maximum devastation, Category 5. The walls do not appear in the images coming from the southern United States. The houses have been reduced to rubble and crushed to the ground in the wake of violent tornadoes that have killed nearly 250 people in six different states.
"I do not know how anyone could survive this destruction," says a witness. Trees uprooted, automobiles and high defying gravity the roof of a garage neighbor knocked shorting lines and water supplies disrupted the balance of the series of deadly tornadoes and storms of the past four decades, only in Alabama have taken the lives of more than 160 people.
President Barack Obama has already declared a state of emergency in this state and has announced she will travel to the affected area on Friday. "Although we may not know yet the extent of damage, since the situation will last a few days, we are closely following severe storms in our country and are willing to continue helping the people of Alabama and all concerned citizens," he Obama said in a statement to the nation.
"Michelle and I offer our deepest condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives due to tornadoes that have hit Alabama and throughout the southeastern United States." One hundred tornadoes The powerful tornadoes, more than 100 in total, have combined in recent days to leave a trail of destruction in its progress from west to east.
The Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama will be closed for several days, perhaps weeks, to allow repair of transmission lines. Up to a million people in Alabama have been left without electricity. Arkansas, the northwest corner of Georgia, northeast Mississippi and southern Tennessee are other areas of devastation and on which the President has also declared a state of emergency.
Shops, malls, drugstores and gas stations were demolished in one part of Tuscaloosa, Alabama Universidadde headquarters, a city of about 95,000 inhabitants. "We have never experienced such weather event in our history," the agency afirmadoa company that operates the Browns Ferry nuclear plant and provides electricity to nine million people in seven states.
The worst series of tornadoes recorded in the United States occurred in April 1974 when 300 people died, according to the National Storm Prediction in Oklahoma. The governor of Alabama has declared a state of emergency and ordered to mobilize about 2,000 National Guard members. Although tornadoes are a routine part of life in central and southern United States are rarely as devastating.
"It sounded like a chainsaw. You could hear the debris hitting things. The only thing that I rescued are some clothes and tools were too heavy to be picked up by the storm. It did not seem real, "dichoSteve Niven, a student of 24 years, to the agency." My wife and I were watching the weather reports until the monster suddenly appeared to us, "he declaradoa France Presse a neighbor of Tuscaloosa Will Nevin, local newspaper The Birmingham News.
"We ran to shelter in the bathroom where the lights started flashing and finally went off," he added. It is expected that the sky was clear before Thursday night or tomorrow Friday. In addition, another storm system is expected with strong winds and rain on Saturday. The storms come after a wet spring and a winter of heavy snow that water saturated the soil and grew the rivers.
The authorities analyze destroy dams to relieve pressure of the rivers, some of which the waters rose so much that it overflowed flooding homes and leaving boats stuck on bridges. Many of the victims were people who were at home when the tornado struck and perished buried. Others suffered violence of the rain in their cars were washed away and overturned by the wind or crushed by falling trees or poles.
The windows of many homes were destroyed by hailstones the size of a golf ball before being reduced to rubble by the tornado. The National Weather Service U.S. (NWS) has an unusual warning about "high risk of tornado, hail, lightning and torrential rains in various parts of the states of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.
He has also warned that danger could strike other 21 States from the Great Lakes (north) to the Gulf Coast (south) and along the Atlantic. Tornadoes were also reported in eastern states like Virginia and Maryland (residents of the capital Washington.) 
"I do not know how anyone could survive this destruction," says a witness. Trees uprooted, automobiles and high defying gravity the roof of a garage neighbor knocked shorting lines and water supplies disrupted the balance of the series of deadly tornadoes and storms of the past four decades, only in Alabama have taken the lives of more than 160 people.
President Barack Obama has already declared a state of emergency in this state and has announced she will travel to the affected area on Friday. "Although we may not know yet the extent of damage, since the situation will last a few days, we are closely following severe storms in our country and are willing to continue helping the people of Alabama and all concerned citizens," he Obama said in a statement to the nation.
"Michelle and I offer our deepest condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives due to tornadoes that have hit Alabama and throughout the southeastern United States." One hundred tornadoes The powerful tornadoes, more than 100 in total, have combined in recent days to leave a trail of destruction in its progress from west to east.
The Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama will be closed for several days, perhaps weeks, to allow repair of transmission lines. Up to a million people in Alabama have been left without electricity. Arkansas, the northwest corner of Georgia, northeast Mississippi and southern Tennessee are other areas of devastation and on which the President has also declared a state of emergency.
Shops, malls, drugstores and gas stations were demolished in one part of Tuscaloosa, Alabama Universidadde headquarters, a city of about 95,000 inhabitants. "We have never experienced such weather event in our history," the agency afirmadoa company that operates the Browns Ferry nuclear plant and provides electricity to nine million people in seven states.
The worst series of tornadoes recorded in the United States occurred in April 1974 when 300 people died, according to the National Storm Prediction in Oklahoma. The governor of Alabama has declared a state of emergency and ordered to mobilize about 2,000 National Guard members. Although tornadoes are a routine part of life in central and southern United States are rarely as devastating.
"It sounded like a chainsaw. You could hear the debris hitting things. The only thing that I rescued are some clothes and tools were too heavy to be picked up by the storm. It did not seem real, "dichoSteve Niven, a student of 24 years, to the agency." My wife and I were watching the weather reports until the monster suddenly appeared to us, "he declaradoa France Presse a neighbor of Tuscaloosa Will Nevin, local newspaper The Birmingham News.
"We ran to shelter in the bathroom where the lights started flashing and finally went off," he added. It is expected that the sky was clear before Thursday night or tomorrow Friday. In addition, another storm system is expected with strong winds and rain on Saturday. The storms come after a wet spring and a winter of heavy snow that water saturated the soil and grew the rivers.
The authorities analyze destroy dams to relieve pressure of the rivers, some of which the waters rose so much that it overflowed flooding homes and leaving boats stuck on bridges. Many of the victims were people who were at home when the tornado struck and perished buried. Others suffered violence of the rain in their cars were washed away and overturned by the wind or crushed by falling trees or poles.
The windows of many homes were destroyed by hailstones the size of a golf ball before being reduced to rubble by the tornado. The National Weather Service U.S. (NWS) has an unusual warning about "high risk of tornado, hail, lightning and torrential rains in various parts of the states of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.
He has also warned that danger could strike other 21 States from the Great Lakes (north) to the Gulf Coast (south) and along the Atlantic. Tornadoes were also reported in eastern states like Virginia and Maryland (residents of the capital Washington.)
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