Clear-up begins after US tornadoes kill 7
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January 3, 2011, Monday
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SHAKEN residents in the South and Midwest of the United States spent New Year's Day sifting through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes that touched down in several states on the last day of 2010, killing seven people and injuring dozens of others.
Six people - three in Missouri and three in Arkansas - died on Friday as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air hit the area. A seventh person injured on Friday in Missouri died on Saturday, said Bruce Southard, chief of the Rolla Rural Fire Department.
The woman, identified by the Phelps County Emergency Management as 74-year-old Ethel Price, was entertaining a friend, Alice Cox, 69, in her trailer when the twister hit.
Southard said nothing was left of the trailer except for the frame, and that the twister scattered debris 40 to 50 meters from where the trailer was sited. The women were found under a pile of debris, and Cox died Friday, Southard said. "It's like you set a bomb off in it," Southard said. "The tornado just annihilated it."
At a nearby farm, 21-year-old Megan Ross and her 64-year-old grandmother, Loretta Anderson, died when a tornado hit their family residence, Dent County Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Nash said.
In the Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati a twister packing winds up to 140 mph claimed three lives. Gerald Wilson, 88, and his wife, Mamie, 78, died in their home and Dick Murray, 78, was killed as he milked cows.
In Mississippi, the National Weather Service confirmed Saturday evening that three tornadoes ripped through the central part of the state on New Year's Eve, causing heavy damage and injuring three people.
In Missouri, reports suggested 280 buildings were damaged with at least 50 of them were destroyed. In Mississippi 39 homes and 40 businesses were destroyed or seriously damaged. Officials in Arkansas say 27 homes and six business sustained damage.
Missouri and Arkansas have declared states of emergency.
Six people - three in Missouri and three in Arkansas - died on Friday as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air hit the area. A seventh person injured on Friday in Missouri died on Saturday, said Bruce Southard, chief of the Rolla Rural Fire Department.
The woman, identified by the Phelps County Emergency Management as 74-year-old Ethel Price, was entertaining a friend, Alice Cox, 69, in her trailer when the twister hit.
Southard said nothing was left of the trailer except for the frame, and that the twister scattered debris 40 to 50 meters from where the trailer was sited. The women were found under a pile of debris, and Cox died Friday, Southard said. "It's like you set a bomb off in it," Southard said. "The tornado just annihilated it."
At a nearby farm, 21-year-old Megan Ross and her 64-year-old grandmother, Loretta Anderson, died when a tornado hit their family residence, Dent County Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Nash said.
In the Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati a twister packing winds up to 140 mph claimed three lives. Gerald Wilson, 88, and his wife, Mamie, 78, died in their home and Dick Murray, 78, was killed as he milked cows.
In Mississippi, the National Weather Service confirmed Saturday evening that three tornadoes ripped through the central part of the state on New Year's Eve, causing heavy damage and injuring three people.
In Missouri, reports suggested 280 buildings were damaged with at least 50 of them were destroyed. In Mississippi 39 homes and 40 businesses were destroyed or seriously damaged. Officials in Arkansas say 27 homes and six business sustained damage.
Missouri and Arkansas have declared states of emergency.
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