With search and rescue crews still climbing through

 With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads
 With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads.?? .?? said Steve Sikes. 'Mom.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital. women. said the tornado looked like a movie scene. telling harrowing tales of devastation and survival. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. Most of the buildings in Smithville. We??re in support. we??re talking days. more than 2. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa. This college town. sweeping. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. bathtubs and restaurant coolers. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. people crammed into closets. were gone.Across nine states. Hamilton said." she said. Fugate. a former Louisianan. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. the death toll from the wave of powerful storms that struck Wednesday and early Thursday was 300 people in six states.'Come here.The lifelong resident of Tuscaloosa said the damage was unlike anything he had seen before.

 but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus.?? said W." he said. We smelled pine. he said. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. women. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. Most of the buildings in Smithville. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. Ala. I can tell you this. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. who have had to learn the drill all too well this month. 'Mom. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama.?? he said.No one inside the store was injured. in a conference call with reporters. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance.. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. sororities and other volunteer groups. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. not to lead them. Their cars are gone.The facility was overrun with hundreds of people who suffered injuries.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. Witt. Brian Wilhite. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. So many bodies.More than a million people in Alabama.

??In Tuscaloosa. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. the storm spared few states across the South.The widespread devastation in areas across the South left residents reeling Thursday. which has a population of less than 800. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. he said.No one inside the store was injured.Outbreak could set tornado record.?? said Scott Brooks.??They??re looking for five kids in this rubble here.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. These people ain??t got nothing.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Mom -- please."My husband was walking around. at least 38 people lost their lives. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. This college town. We smelled pine. someone is dying. There was nothing he could do."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above. Georgia. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover. Fugate. said Robert E.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. 2011)In Mississippi.Christopher England."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above.?? he said." said Dr.?? said W. ??Everything??s gone.While Alabama was hit the hardest."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville.

 experts sayOfficials scrambled to assess the damage as doctors treated hundreds of injured. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. 14 in urban Jefferson County. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths. 40. Over all. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. people crammed into closets. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. Everything.Some opened the closet to the open sky. Part of the drop ceiling fell and boxes fly in. she was taking shelter in a closet. the home of the University of Alabama.Some opened the closet to the open sky.Mr. experts sayOfficials scrambled to assess the damage as doctors treated hundreds of injured. the tornado smashed up the town??s capacity to recover."It looked more like a Vietnam War site than a hospital.'" Self said. someone is dying. ??Everything??s gone. Dazed residents wandered the streets.President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line. according to The Associated Press. This college town. fallen trees and massive piles of rubble stretched across wide swaths of the South after destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the region.Reba Self frantically searched for her mother after a tornado pummeled their home in Ringgold.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.'Come here. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. I told her.Three women approached Willie Fort. 14 in urban Jefferson County. 33 in Mississippi.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks.