JACKSON, Miss. – Severe weather has swept across the South, killing at least six people in Mississippi, six more in Georgia and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains.
Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee area and several counties in northwest Georgia appeared to be particularly hard-hit. Murray County, Georgia, Fire Chief Dewayne Bain told WAGA-TV that two mobile home parks were severely damaged, with five people were killed and five others hospitalized after a line of narrow line of storms left a five mile long path of destruction.