-Caveat Lector- Yesterday it was a balmy 70 degrees. This morning it was 18 degrees with a minus 10 wind chill factor. We now have the electricity restored but most people use heat pumps which are inadequate at these low temperatures. Also, water lines, etc. are not buried very deep. In short, we are freezing even in our homes! Could this have ben the work of HAARP? I do not ever remember a tornado at Christmas, much less 10 of them. Did any one notice any of those radar circles in the last few days? Amelia At least 10 dead in Alabama twisters By JAY REEVES The Associated Press 12/17/00 5:32 AM TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama residents will continue clean-up efforts Sunday after the state was hit Saturday by a band of twisters, including one that killed 10 people in Tuscaloosa. Tornadoes also struck three far-flung locales, tearing apart scores of homes in Geneva, at the southern edge of the state, and in rural Etowah and Limestone counties in the north. At least 20 people were injured in those twisters. The worst devastation was in a sprawling trailer park just south of Tuscaloosa, where most of the victims were found. Mobile homes were blown into mangled piles, some unrecognizable among the debris. "We are still trying to find out how many are unaccounted for," said Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton. "There were people out there Christmas shopping and all. We just don't know where they are." National Guard troops sealed off the park as rescue teams searched the rubble for survivors. With power out, the search went on in darkness. At least 54 people were injured, and two people were still missing late Saturday night, Alabama Emergency Management Agency spokesman Scott Adcock said. The tornado had hit at about 1 p.m. "It was roaring and the wind just blew. You didn't know if you were going to live or not," said Myrtle Bowden, who took refuge in a bathroom with her husband, James. Joe Hayes, 61, said he watched from his porch as the storm hit a grocery store under construction, then lift a small pickup truck and threw its occupants. "I saw it coming all the way," he said. Twelve people who joined him huddled in his basement survived the storm, but Hayes lost his roof to the winds. A tree near where Beverly Smith's trailer had stood was filled with orange insulation, the trailer had been blown off its foundation and into another tree. Smith, who had taken cover in the trailer's bathroom, was hospitalized with bruises, cuts and chest pains, said her brother, Kenny Thomas. "It picked the trailer up," he said. In nearby yards, the roof of a pickup truck was caved in. A photograph of a man, a woman and a child lay in a puddle. Debris from homes and buildings was scattered along roads south of Tuscaloosa and was hanging from trees, many of them twisted and broken. In the southern part of the state, another tornado hit just before noon, overturning cars and destroying homes, Geneva Mayor Warren Beck said. Geneva County Emergency Management Agency director, Margaret Mixon, said eight people were injured, two of them severely. Five homes were destroyed and at least 20 others were damaged. The tornado also damaged a textile mill and destroyed a peanut mill in neighboring Dale County. Dale County Commissioner Buddy Stapleton said he counted about a half-dozen homes hit near Newton. A tornado also swept through the northern part of the state, injuring 12 people and damaging about two dozen homes in the Ball Play and Coats Bend communities of Etowah County, deputy emergency management director John Stoddard said. There were no immediate injury reports from Limestone County, near the Alabama-Tennessee line, where seven homes and three mobile homes were destroyed and trees and power lines were toppled by a tornado. Alabama Power Co. officials said the storms, which also pounded the state with hail early in the day, knocked out power to about 43,000 customers, raising concerns because temperatures across the state were expected to drop into the low 20s Saturday night. Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman activated the state emergency operations center to coordinate emergency response to the storms. He plans to tour the Tuscaloosa storm damage Sunday morning. ------ On the Net: National Weather Service: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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