Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Miss officials assess damage from storms that killed 12


Yazoo City, Mississippi - State officials yesterday were counting the damage caused by a tornado on the weekend so I can seek a declaration of emergency by President Obama, with federal funds to help clean up the mess.

The latest figures yesterday was stark: In Mississippi, 10 people were killed and 49 wounded, and nearly 700 houses were damaged. Two other people died in storms in Alabama.

Governor Haley Barbour has spent part of the day in the neighborhoods of his hometown of Yazoo City to speak privately with the residents. "When everybody knows, is more difficult,''said Barbour, whose house was damaged by the tornado on Saturday.

Yesterday, the dead in Mississippi have been identified. Choctaw County Judge Keith Coleman identified the victims in your area, and Andra Patterson, 3 months; tyanna Jobe, 9, Brittany Jobe, 14, Mary Yates, 58, and Bobby Yates, 57.

Wayne Allen Jr., a funeral director at Stricklin-King Funeral Home, identified the victims as Yazoo County E. James Harrison, 64, and Elizabeth Bradshaw Nicole Carpenter, Carlton Gould and Martin Stella, whose age was not.

The storm system began in Louisiana before cutting a path about 150 miles long through Mississippi and Alabama, continues. Storm experts worked yesterday to determine whether the damage was caused by a tornado tornadoes single or multiple.

National Weather Service said winds of the tornado Ed agreement were valued at 160 mph on most of the road, with some areas hit with even stronger winds.

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