"Pinch me so I wake up. All this can not be real." As hundreds of people in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the southern United States, Brenda has lost everything. The tornado killed 36 people in this town of 90,000 inhabitants - visited by Barack Obama. "The dead and injured are not concentrated in a specific location.
They are scattered along the path of 4 miles wide [6.4 km] of the tornado, south-west to north-east of the city" , reported the local newspaper, the Tuscaloosa News. "We thought it was just thunder, but it got worse ... I realized that this was not the thunder after fifteen seconds. [...] I pulled a mattress over our heads.
Fortunately we got off, "said one resident. Besides the 36 people who perished, about 800 city residents were injured and thousands are now homeless. "Whole neighborhoods have been literally wiped off the map" says the mayor of the city. On social networks, the tone of comments is to match.
It talks about the lack of sleep and food, close as they are still looking. "If you're in the university village, give you. Disquieting rumors circulating here," wrote the night of Thursday to Friday an academic journal on his Twitter feed. And they are many students of this university town, to flow on social networks.
"I can not believe that my school year ends and I left Tuscaloosa in ruins," writes, for example Jourdann on Facebook. Some, like Elly, dare rejoice to have left town a few days earlier, at the end of the academic year: "I'd rather spend my exams back and say goodbye to my friends. [...] C is crazy to think that the places most affected are those where I studied, where I lived.
It is as if a bomb had been dropped on the city. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to be safe at home with my family. " Others worry about the problem that is inevitably in this type of disaster: the looting. Thus, Singrid, who thanked heaven to be alive is "sad" to see "ignorant fools" who "pillage and steal" their own community.
In Cullman, a hundred miles farther north in the State of Alabama - which accounts for two thirds of the victims - the city looks like a "war zone". The sheriff warned that its services would ensure a vigorous fight to "against looting or breaking" and a curfew was set for dusk to daybreak.
But in this city where two people were killed, the disruption of water and electricity are the main problem. "We will remain without electricity for at least a week, if not more," laments Sheanati on Twitter. In the local newspaper, an official with the power company confirms that it will take seven to nine days to restore power.
"We never had any cuts of this magnitude. We thought the blizzard of 1993 was the worst situation we've experienced, but this limit has been largely completed." And without electricity, difficult to communicate. Friday morning, more than twenty-four hours after tornadoes in the southern United States, many people were happy to finally have some news.
Or give. "For those who have tried to contact me: since Wednesday, I had no access to means of communication. I'm fine, I'm safe. [...] People have lost their cars, their homes, their friends and members of their families. Please pray for Alabama, "Taylor begged for example. The Tuscaloosa News website offers its readers to centralize the missing person.
There are hundreds to have written the name of a loved one and the place where he could be when the tornado traveled the state. Some of them reassure their loved ones when communications are restored. But it is feared that others have perished in what is already present as the deadliest natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Katrina.
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They are scattered along the path of 4 miles wide [6.4 km] of the tornado, south-west to north-east of the city" , reported the local newspaper, the Tuscaloosa News. "We thought it was just thunder, but it got worse ... I realized that this was not the thunder after fifteen seconds. [...] I pulled a mattress over our heads.
Fortunately we got off, "said one resident. Besides the 36 people who perished, about 800 city residents were injured and thousands are now homeless. "Whole neighborhoods have been literally wiped off the map" says the mayor of the city. On social networks, the tone of comments is to match.
It talks about the lack of sleep and food, close as they are still looking. "If you're in the university village, give you. Disquieting rumors circulating here," wrote the night of Thursday to Friday an academic journal on his Twitter feed. And they are many students of this university town, to flow on social networks.
"I can not believe that my school year ends and I left Tuscaloosa in ruins," writes, for example Jourdann on Facebook. Some, like Elly, dare rejoice to have left town a few days earlier, at the end of the academic year: "I'd rather spend my exams back and say goodbye to my friends. [...] C is crazy to think that the places most affected are those where I studied, where I lived.
It is as if a bomb had been dropped on the city. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to be safe at home with my family. " Others worry about the problem that is inevitably in this type of disaster: the looting. Thus, Singrid, who thanked heaven to be alive is "sad" to see "ignorant fools" who "pillage and steal" their own community.
In Cullman, a hundred miles farther north in the State of Alabama - which accounts for two thirds of the victims - the city looks like a "war zone". The sheriff warned that its services would ensure a vigorous fight to "against looting or breaking" and a curfew was set for dusk to daybreak.
But in this city where two people were killed, the disruption of water and electricity are the main problem. "We will remain without electricity for at least a week, if not more," laments Sheanati on Twitter. In the local newspaper, an official with the power company confirms that it will take seven to nine days to restore power.
"We never had any cuts of this magnitude. We thought the blizzard of 1993 was the worst situation we've experienced, but this limit has been largely completed." And without electricity, difficult to communicate. Friday morning, more than twenty-four hours after tornadoes in the southern United States, many people were happy to finally have some news.
Or give. "For those who have tried to contact me: since Wednesday, I had no access to means of communication. I'm fine, I'm safe. [...] People have lost their cars, their homes, their friends and members of their families. Please pray for Alabama, "Taylor begged for example. The Tuscaloosa News website offers its readers to centralize the missing person.
There are hundreds to have written the name of a loved one and the place where he could be when the tornado traveled the state. Some of them reassure their loved ones when communications are restored. But it is feared that others have perished in what is already present as the deadliest natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Katrina.
Le Monde. en
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