A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South killed at least six people on Thursday in central Alabama and a seventh person in Georgia, authorities said.
A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South killed at least six people Thursday in central Alabama and a seventh person in Georgia, authorities said, and spawned a tornado that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma.
Search and rescue operations were suspended at about 8 p.m. local time, Baggett said, but will resume Friday. Debris litters a local business that was destroyed by a tornado that passed through downtown Selma, Alabama, on Jan. 12, 2023.Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency for six counties: Autauga, Chambers, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and Tallapoosa, which contains Selma.
In Selma, brick buildings collapsed, cars were on their side and traffic poles were strewn about in the downtown area. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city from a fire burning. It was not immediately known whether the storm caused the blaze.A few blocks past the city's famed Edmund Pettus Bridge, an enduring symbol of the voting rights movement, buildings were crumpled by the storm and trees blocked roadways.
A damaged structure and debris are seen in the aftermath of severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Selma, Ala. A large tornado damaged homes and uprooted trees in Alabama on Thursday as a powerful storm system pushed through the South.Selma was a flashpoint of the Civil Rights movement. Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.
"We stopped and we prayed. We followed it and prayed," she said."It was a 100% God thing that it turned right before it hit my house.""It would hit a house and black smoke would swirl up," she said."It was very terrifying." A damaged structure and debris are seen in the aftermath of severe weather, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in Selma, Ala. A large tornado damaged homes and uprooted trees in Alabama on Thursday as a powerful storm system pushed through the South.Officials in Griffin, Georgia, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it.
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