Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Severe weather threatens eastern US states

Severe weather is threatening as many as 73 million Americans in the eastern states, after two days of powerful storms killed up to 28 people.
Government forecasters have warned of severe thunderstorms from the Gulf of Mexico up to the Great Lakes.On Sunday and Monday, tornadoes cut a broad track of death and destruction through the southern US states.
The storms flattened buildings, overturned cars, and left thousands of residents without power.
A fierce storm blew a freight train off its tracks in Illinois
The storm and the tornadoes it spawned killed as many as eight people in Mississippi on Monday, including a woman who died when driving her car during the storm in Verona, south of Tupelo.

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