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South cleans up from tornadoes as Results of investigation
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Team Dreyer Aruba

satisfied with their
Visibility on I-94 in the Bismarck, N.D., Mandan area is greatly reduced due to blowing snow
across the roadway in this view of westbound traffic on the Grant Marsh Bridge over the Missouri
River on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. performance in Colombia
Associated Press
By JAKE BLEIBERG and KEVIN MCGILL In Union Parish, Louisiana, near the Arkan-
Associated Press sas line, volunteers stocked a gymnasium
KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) — Communities from with donated clothing and other supplies
Texas to Florida commenced assisting sur- for dozens whose homes were badly dam-
vivors and cleaning up Thursday after tor- aged or destroyed. “It shows that people
nadoes left scattered destruction and at love you,” said Patsy Andrews, who sur-
least three people dead across the South. vived the storm hunkered in a bathtub
To the north, blizzards continued to pound with her three children. “It shows that
the Midwest as more ice and snow head- people care.” Andrews teared up as she
ed toward New England. recounted how winds blew open her front
Three straight days of volatile weather in door early Wednesday in the Union Coun-
the South continued Thursday as a pos- ty community of Farmerville as tornado
sible tornado wrecked a building housing alerts sounded. Windows started breaking
a cotton gin in rural Georgia and forecast- with a popping noise like gunfire, she said,
ers issued a stream of tornado warnings as the family crawled into the bathroom.
across the Florida peninsula. “The only thing we know to do was just
The same storm front spawned twisters as crying, we was screaming, just calling on
it marched from central Texas across Loui- Jesus,” Andrews said. She added: “We all
siana, where all three storm deaths were grabbed each other, we jumped in the
confirmed, before destroying farm build- tub. All we could do was just pray. It was
ings in Mississippi and tearing roofs off oth- very devastating.” Page 11
er buildings in Alabama. Continued on Page 2