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WEATHER CRISIS * USA - Mother Nature continues onslaught; twisters claim lives, flip rigs
The death toll is now at 57 after the worst outbreak of tornadoes in 23 years swept through five states on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Reed Black -February 7, 2008: -- Tennessee counted 32 dead, Arkansas 13, Kentucky seven and Alabama five. The twisters touched down first in Arkansas, then made their way as far south and east as Alabama... In Tennessee, a group of truckers heading in both directions on Interstate 40 near Jackson found themselves directly in the path of a tornado... A Struthers, Ohio, truck driver was shocked when he saw the devastation 12 hours after the tornado hit... When the storms were hitting Tuesday night, Flesher was just crossing into Kentucky from Ohio on Interstate 71... “The rain was coming down so hard that I couldn’t see the end of the hood,” he told The Vindicator... Meanwhile, up to 21 inches of snow fell in parts of Wisconsin on Wednesday, with traffic backing up for almost 20 miles south of Madison when tractor-trailers got stuck on a hill on I-39/I-90. And in Montana I-90 was closed Thursday morning from St. Regis to the Idaho line due to ice and snow... More severe weather was expected Thursday in the Great Lakes region where heavy rains and melting snow prompted flood warnings in four states... Some government researchers say weather extremes are becoming more extreme...
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