Tornado wide open through the South and the Midwest, killing at least 7

At least seven people were killed in the Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana, the officials said on Thursday, after over 30 tornadoes, combined with hail and strong rains, swept through the South and the Midwest, flooding the streets, which start electrical lines and planting houses and companies.

The floods were expected to worsen while the storm stops on the region, putting millions under weather consultancy in the following days. The officials warned that a “generational floods” disaster was possible as more than one rainy foot could fall, pushing swollen rivers and inlets on their banks.

The cities and counties in the Midwest and in the South were increasing the efforts to prepare for the serious floods scheduled for the days to come. The officials said that the schools of some districts in Tennessee and Kentucky would be closed on Friday.

The body of the army engineers said he had filled about 1,500 sandbags to strengthen a embankment near Poplar Bluff, Mo., where the Black river is expected to increase the almost record flood levels during the weekend. An urban research and rescue team was also deploying in the area.

Governor Mike Braun Dell’Icoraiana said he activated the National Guard to help with the storm response.

Up to 10-15 inches of rain could fall during the weekend, said the National Weather Service. The most intense rain was scheduled in Arkansas and Tennessee, where the flood waters were rising in some parts of Nashville and were in Corso Salvataggi.

“We are rather worried, so worried possible,” said Jimmy Barham, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Little Rock, Ark.

Thursday Isaiah Butrum, 17, went with two friends to a public filling station of sand bags in Sikeston, Mo., Thursday. He had seen his city flooding before, he said, and wanted to protect his home.

“When it rains super evil, the water comes out of the pipes,” he said. “He comes out of the sinks, comes out of the toilets.”

The storm was already taxing some emergency systems. In Nashville, the continuous lament of the Tornado sirens had drained the batteries of some, making them stop working on Thursday, The Nashville firefighters saidAdding that in the places where the energy was out, the sirens did not recharge until electricity was restored. The Department urged the residents to rely on radio and meteorological communication apps to remain informed.

The County of McNairy in Tennessee, one of the most affected areas of the state, was encountered “widespread communication problems”, said the Emergency Management Agency of Tennessee in a note. Three to five inches of rain fell on most of the state in the previous 18 hours, said the agency, and some areas received almost seven inches.

The storm was accused of at least five deaths in Tennessee. The toll included a 16 -year -old father and daughter whose modular house was hit by a tornado in Moscow, about 45 miles east of Memphis. The girl’s mother had been trapped under the house but had been pulled outside the emergency operators and brought to the hospital in critical conditions, the officials said.

In Indiana, a 27 -year -old man was killed on Wednesday evening after the pickup he was driving hit the power lines shot down in Heddricks county. The officials said that the man came out of his truck, came into contact with the power lines and was wounded to death.

In Missouri, a head of the firefighters had been killed near Cape Girardeau, said the patrol of the State Highway, although the circumstances were not immediately clear.

The officials also reported about storm injuries in Kentucky, where a family had been hit by flying debris; in Missouri, where a child was in critical conditions; And in Indiana, where a person had been saved by a collapsed warehouse.

Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed that at least 33 Tornado had hit the region. Carmel officials, Ind., A suburb of Indianapolis, showed bricks filmed by a building. Munch officials, in India, said that thousands of people lost hours after the strong winds they knocked down the power lines.

The governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky said that a seed truck had turned upside down in the wind, forcing an interstatal to close for several hours. A regional airport in Paduch had suffered significant damage, he said, and the State Police had saved several people trapped in their homes and vehicles.

Randy Colyer, a farmer in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, said he had heard “strong noises” while she was repaired in his basement during the night. In the morning, he started cleaning the damage outside with friends and neighbors.

“We found our shed disappeared and damage the house and many damaged machinery: combine, tractors, semifinals, sheds,” said Coll, 60 years old, a fourth generation farmer, who was also keeping an eye on the nearby Mississippi river, which could flood in the next few days.

The storm hit while the National Weather Service was recovering from significant cuts to the staff ordered by the Trump Administration. Last month, the meteorological service temporarily stopped collecting some of the data used to produce forecasting models.

Governor Beshear, a democrat, indicated the storm on Thursday as a reason why the agency should not be cut.

“The National Weather Service is a critical organization that we desperately need and that we must be strong,” he said in a press conference. “I’m an anchor of salvation.”

The report was contributed by Carly Gist, Judson Jones, Amy Graff, Nazaneen Ghaffar, Sara Ruberg and Jennifer A. Brown.