Here’s a round-up of the latest:
- According to a televised report on WSFA in Montgomery, one has to go back to 1918 to find a tornado-related fatality in a school in Alabama. Those deaths (8) were in Dothan (near Enterprise) and was also at an odd time of year for such a weather event.
- WDHN in Dothan has some pictures and some video of downtown Enterprise at about the time the Enterprise High School was being hit.
- According to the Montgomery Advertiser, the death toll has risen to 17: Storms kill 17 in Enterprise
- The Birmingham News has the statewide death toll at 18: At least 18 may be dead in storms
- The Advertiser also has a photo gallery
- The Birmingham News reports: Rescue workers stop search at Enterprise High School
- Also via the News: 20,300 Alabama Power customers without power, company says
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March 2nd, 2007 at 6:15 am
Deadly Tornadoes Sweep South
At least fourteen people were killed in a wave of tornadoes that struck Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri.
A powerful storm system packing tornadoes that killed at least seven people in Alabama and one other in Missouri is being blamed for nine more death…