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RENA LARA, Mississippi -- Floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River and its tributaries spilled across farm fields, cut off churches, washed over roads and forced people from their homes Wednesday in the Mississippi Delta, a poverty-stricken region.
People used boats to navigate flooded streets as the crest rolled slowly downstream, bringing misery to poor, low-lying communities. Hundreds have left their homes in the Delta in the past several days as the water rose toward some of the highest levels on record.
The flood crest is expected to push all the way through the Delta by late next week.
Officials in the town, which has no local newspaper or TV stations, tried to reassure residents that they are doing what they can to shore up the levee and that they will warn people if they need to leave.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour urged people to get out if they think there is even a chance their homes will flood. He said there is no reason to believe a levee on the Yazoo River would fail, but if it did, 107 feet (32 meters) of water would flow over small towns.
As the Mississippi River swells, areas along the river, stretching from Illinois to Louisiana, face severe flooding. Emergency workers try to protect small towns, farms and urban areas.
May 9: People gather to look at opened bays on the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco, La. The spillway, which the Army Corps of Engineers built about 30 miles upriver from New Orleans in response to the great flood of 1927, last opened during the spring 2008.
"More than anything else, save your life and don't put at risk other people who might have to come in and save your lives," he said.
Late Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration for 14 counties in Mississippi because of the flooding. Housing and home repairs will be covered and low-interest loans to cover uninsured damage will be available.
The Mississippi Delta, with a population of about 465,000, is a leaf-shaped expanse of rich soil between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, extending about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from Memphis, Tennessee to Vicksburg, Missachusetts. Along the way are towns whose names are familiar to Civil War buffs, aficionados of the blues, and scholars of the civil rights era: Clarksdale, Greenwood, Greenville and Yazoo City.
While some farms in the cotton-, rice- and corn-growing Delta are prosperous, there is also grinding poverty. Nine of the 11 counties that touch the Mississippi River in Mississippi have poverty rates at least double the national average of 13.5 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The governor said the state is asking local officials to get in touch with people who might have no electricity and phones and thus no way to get word of the flooding.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Survivors and rescuers combed through destroyed towns and neighborhoods on Thursday, looking for belongings and victims after dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South overnight. The death toll continued to climb in Alabama, and at least 280 people in six states perished in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.
Deadliest days
Nearly 300 people were killed in six states on April 27-28 in one of the deadliest series of tornadoes to hit the United States in recent decades. Here is a look at the deadliest tornado days in U.S. history: March 18, 1925: 747 people killed after tornadoes hit Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. March 21, 1932: 332 killed, most of them in Alabama, following a wave of tornadoes across the Southeast. May 17, 1840: 317 died, nearly all of them in the city of Natchez, Miss., after tornadoes hit Louisiana and Mississippi. April 3, 1974: 310 killed in what is known as the "Super Outbreak" when 148 tornadoes rampaged across 13 states over a 24-hour period. May 27, 1896: 305 died when tornadoes hit Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Source: NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory
People in hard-hit Alabama surveyed flattened, debris-strewn neighborhoods and told of pulling bodies from rubble after the storms passed.
"We have neighborhoods that have been basically removed from the map," Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said after surveying his city.
The death toll seems out of a bygone era — before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the tornadoes were coming up to 24 minutes ahead of time, but they were just too wide, too powerful and too locked onto populated areas to avoid a horrifying body count.
"These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen," said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
"If you experienced a direct hit from one of these, you'd have to be in a reinforced room, storm shelter or underground" to survive, Carbin said.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Survivors and rescuers combed through destroyed towns and neighborhoods on Thursday, looking for belongings and victims after dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South overnight. The death toll continued to climb in Alabama, and at least 280 people in six states perished in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.
Deadliest days
Nearly 300 people were killed in six states on April 27-28 in one of the deadliest series of tornadoes to hit the United States in recent decades. Here is a look at the deadliest tornado days in U.S. history: March 18, 1925: 747 people killed after tornadoes hit Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. March 21, 1932: 332 killed, most of them in Alabama, following a wave of tornadoes across the Southeast. May 17, 1840: 317 died, nearly all of them in the city of Natchez, Miss., after tornadoes hit Louisiana and Mississippi. April 3, 1974: 310 killed in what is known as the "Super Outbreak" when 148 tornadoes rampaged across 13 states over a 24-hour period. May 27, 1896: 305 died when tornadoes hit Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Source: NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory
People in hard-hit Alabama surveyed flattened, debris-strewn neighborhoods and told of pulling bodies from rubble after the storms passed.
"We have neighborhoods that have been basically removed from the map," Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said after surveying his city.
The death toll seems out of a bygone era — before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather. Residents were told the tornadoes were coming up to 24 minutes ahead of time, but they were just too wide, too powerful and too locked onto populated areas to avoid a horrifying body count.
"These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen," said meteorologist Greg Carbin at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
"If you experienced a direct hit from one of these, you'd have to be in a reinforced room, storm shelter or underground" to survive, Carbin said.
Storms ravage South: A state-by-state look at the impact
The fierce storm system spread destruction from Texas to New York
Here's a state-by-state glance at the impact: Alabama
At least 194 have died people across the state, which suffered "massive destruction of property," Gov. Robert Bentley said.
As of 10 a.m. ET Thursday, Alabama Power said 348,467 residents were without power, although the governor estimates that up to a million residents could be without power statewide.
2,000 national guard troops have been and were helping to search devastated areas for the missing.
President Barack Obama — who will travel to Alabama on Friday — has spoken with Bentley and approved his request for emergency federal assistance.
Some of the worst devastation occurred in Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama, killing at least 36 people including some students. Video taken at the university showed a massive funnel cloud flinging huge pieces of debris through the air.
66 of 137 tornado reports the NWS Storm Prediction Center received on Wednesday came from Alabama.
A Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant in Alabama that lost power after the storms will be down for days and possibly weeks, but the agency said backup power systems worked as designed to prevent a partial meltdown like the disaster in Japan.
Mississippi
At least 33 have been confirmed dead, and 120 injured, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
According to reports, Gov. Haley Barbour says he will ask President Barack Obama for federal relief.
Gov. Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency in 13 counties, and additionally, says he will seek a federal declaration of emergency.
Tennessee
According to NBC News, 33 people have died due to the storms.
Bill McCollum, chief operating officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority, tells the Knoxville News Sentinel that more than 300,000 customers were without power.
Virginia
Eight deaths were initially reported but that was later lowered to five.
The powerful storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes throughout the South and caused the deaths of at least 12 people left a stunning trail of destruction and heartache.
MississippiGov. Haley Barbourdescribed the aftermath as "the obliteration of a small community."
Officials have so far counted 61 tornadoes in nine states as the storm moved through Mississippi and into Floridaand South CarolinaSunday.
In Mississippi, where an astounding 32 twisters were reported, residents said it looked as if the sky was falling as a tornado chased them down the road. Winds were clocked upward of 160 mph, and one tornado had a base one and a half miles wide.
"We just prayed the whole way through," said Chatawa, Miss., resident Regina Weeks, who survived the tornadoes by huddling into a small bathroom with four of her relatives.
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