Lethal storms kill at least 5 in US southeast
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AT least five people have been killed as severe storms moved across America’s southeast, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.
Four were killed on Monday evening when a tree fell on their mobile home in Rehobeth, Alabama.
In Florida, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office said 70-year-old William Patrick Corley’s body was found on Monday following flooding near the Shoal River in Mossy Head.
State emergency officials reported no injuries or deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi, but a trip to Wal-Mart was memorable for some shoppers in Marksville, Louisiana, as severe weather blew out skylights in the store, sending water and glass cascading onto shoppers.
Marksville Fire Chief Jerry Bordelon said a fireworks stand in the Wal-Mart parking lot was tossed 30 or 40 meters and mangled. The storm also knocked over 18-wheel truck trailers and punched holes in the store’s roof. The fire department ordered shoppers to leave the store, but some didn’t want to leave even as managers closed it.
“Believe it or not, we had some people in there who were still trying to shop,” Bordelon said.
Storms in central Mississippi near Mendenhall and Mount Olive were preliminarily identified as tornadoes by the National Weather Service, based in part on radar signatures. Both storms damaged farm buildings and homes.
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