Trump offers condolences to Georgia storm victims

The Birmingham National Weather Service issued a tornado watch including Lee County and most other areas of central and south Alabama earlier this morning.

Buildings collapsed, homes were destroyed, tress toppled and fields littered with debris.

“These storms have devastated communities and homes in south central Georgia, and the state is making all resources available to the impacted areas”, Deal said.

“I urge all Georgians to exercise caution and vigilance in order to remain safe and prevent further loss of life or injuries”, Governor Deal said in a news release.

For Saturday, just about the entire coverage area is under “enhanced” risk, which is upgraded from Friday night, meaning a higher risk for severe weather.

“I expressed our honest condolences for the lives taken”, Trump said.

People are reflected in a swimming pool as they work to clean up at a home that was damaged by a tornado Sunday in Adel, Ga. “And there is substantive damage to one of our trailer parks”.

President Donald Trump pledged to aid Georgia’s recovery.

Trump described the tornadoes as vicious and powerful.

“We have people who have no home, no food, no warmth, and no hope”, Chris Cohilas, a commissioner in Dougherty County in south Georgia, told the press today.

After seeing the scope of the damage from the air and then up close on the ground, Nadler said it’s fantastic that central Georgia didn’t have any injuries or deaths.

“We have turned away more people that just wanted to help because we just can’t put them down here”, said Brent Exum, chief investigator for the sheriff’s department. The park had about 40 mobile homes, and roughly half were destroyed, as the tornado sheered the siding and upended homes, according to Coroner Tim Purvis.

Howden confirmed the deaths were related to severe weather, but could not specify whether tornadoes were the cause.

The Latest on severe weather gusting through the southeastern U.S. The Storm Prediction Center says less than 3 percent of their severe weather watches carry the “PDS” designation.

A line of storms moving from west to east is expected to bring damaging winds and the potential for a tornado outbreak across Northern Florida and Southern Georgia.

NBC station WLTV of Jacksonville, Florida, reported that a midafternoon storm plowed through Albany, near Dougherty County’s northeastern corner, at 70 miles per hour.

In neighbouring Alabama, thousands of homes and businesses were without power, utility Alabama Power said.