A woman was killed Tuesday night in Pembroke, Georgia, when a suspected tornado tore off part of the roof of Brian County courthouse, destroyed the entrance to a local government building across the street and destroyed homes in nearby neighborhoods. county. representative. Kent said several others were injured in the county 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Savannah. He said the death occurred in one of the devastated neighborhoods, but gave no further details. In East Texas, WM Soloman, 71, died when windstorms knocked down a tree at Solomon’s home in Whitehouse, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Dallas, said Whitehouse Mayor James Wansley. Officials said trees fell on at least four houses there. More than 50,000 homes and businesses were left without power Tuesday night from East Texas to South Carolina. The disruptions came on the day the National Weather Service issued a steady stream of tornado warnings for hours as the tornado system tore through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. In southeastern Georgia, 23-year-old Gage Moore was driving home from work Tuesday afternoon at Interstate 16 in Pembroke County when his fiancée called to say she heard a whirlwind siren. About two minutes later, Moore said, he looked up and saw a tall twister appear on the left side of the highway. Moore said he pulled and stopped his car behind an overpass, and then filmed a cell phone video of the funnel cloud stirring across the interstate. “Everyone started hitting the brakes around me,” Moore said. “I could really feel my truck rocking back and forth and hear it roar.” He added: “Fortunately we all stopped and left a huge gap in the interstate where it crossed.” Moore then continued his journey home. He said he could tell where the twister was crossing the highway because of the deformed exit sign and the damaged trees they left behind. “Some were bent and some were broken,” Moore said. “The peaks were broken above them.” In South Carolina, Allendale County Director William Goodson said a tornado, recorded on social media video, caused damage in his county, but the exact extent of the injuries was unknown. “I know we have damaged buildings and electrical wires,” Goodson said. The debate was also delayed for nearly an hour in the South Carolina legislature following the evacuation of the State House due to a tornado warning in Columbia. The legislation under discussion would require athletes to compete with the gender listed on their birth certificates. The Meteorological Agency said it had sent investigation teams to investigate possible damage from tornadoes in Wetumpka, Alabama. Lightning struck an open-air market in Lacey’s Spring community in northern Alabama, causing a fire that destroyed the building, news agencies reported. Fallen trees and limbs closed a section of highway for hours in Newton County, Mississippi. As the storms pushed through Georgia, a large tree fell and fell on the roof of Marie Jordan’s home in the Atlanta subway, descending into the living room, kitchen and garage. “They just needed everything,” Jordan told WSB-TV. “For years and years, I watch this tree.” Elsewhere in Texas, one person was injured when storms swept across Johnson County, about 40 miles southwest of Dallas. Brittaney Deaton said she was trapped in an RV trailer behind her family home after the trailer overturned. She said her father was injured trying to free her. “I was screaming on the phone. I could not go out. “I was terrified,” Deaton told KDFW-TV. “And I felt like I was trapped, like he was going to flow with me. And I just thank God I got out. “ The threat of catastrophic weather will move further north on Wednesday, meteorologists said, with strong thunderstorms likely in an area stretching from western Alabama to the western tip of Carolina. More than 10 million people in subway areas including Atlanta. Birmingham? and Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be at risk, the Storm Prediction Center said. Spring often brings strong thunderstorms in the southeast. The area experienced a barrage of weather recently including a tornado last month on the New Orleans subway where one person died, and storms that killed at least two people in the Florida Panhandle last week.
