Jan Wesner Childs
Published: April 24, 2020
At least one person was killed Thursday as deadly tornadoes and storms raked the Deep South for a second day in a row.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office in Tallahassee, Florida, said a tree fell on a man around 7 p.m. on the northeast side of town. The victim was dead when first responders arrived on the scene. Another person sustained minor injuries.
Multiple trees were down and power outages were reported throughout the city. Crews were still working to clean up and restore power Friday morning.
Tallahassee resident Nanette Schimpf recounted on Facebook how the storm hit her house, knocked down trees that fell through two cars and damaged an outbuilding.
"Ground zero was insane," Schimpf wrote. "The dogs are still in shock. Barn damaged. Cars totaled. A dozen trees down."
Falling trees totalled two cars owned by Tallahassee resident Nanette Schimpf during storms in Tallahassee on Thursday, April 23, 2020.
Parts of Florida are again under threat from severe weather Friday, as heavy rain and thunderstorms move across the central part of the state. About 19,000 homes and businesses were without power statewide Friday morning, according to poweroutage.us.
Testing sites for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, were closed due to the storms in Central Florida, WKMG-TV reported.
High winds hit the Tampa Bay area.
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North Florida was wracked by high winds and several possible tornadoes Thursday evening and afternoon. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said several trees were down after a reported tornado moved across the county around 3 p.m. EDT. There were also reports of damage to some buildings in the area, and debris littered the streets further to the east in Panama City.
A tree smashed the windshield of a car on Nanette Schimpf's property during storms in Tallahassee on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The falling trees totalled two cars and damaged an outbuilding.
Storm damage, tornadoes and flooding were reported Thursday in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, where more than 5 inches of rain deluged streets in Charleston.
A tornado hit several communities in South Georgia, where minor injuries were reported.
A firefighter and a member of the EMS department in Anniston, Alabama, were transported to the hospital early Thursday morning after they were injured while rescuing a resident from a home where a tree had fallen. A civilian was also transported, Anniston EMS said in a statement on Facebook. The injuries were not life threatening.
There were at least 31 reports of tornadoes in the South from late Wednesday into early Thursday morning. On Wednesday, tornadoes killed at least five people and injured dozens more in Texas and Oklahoma, while storms in Louisiana killed at least two people.
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