Survivors emerge from wreckage after US storms kill 9 people

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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Stunned residents tried to salvage belongings, and rescue crews pulled survivors from beneath collapsed houses Friday in the aftermath of a tornado-spawning storm system that killed at least nine people as it barreled across parts of Georgia and Alabama.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-disaster-planning-and-response-selma-alabama-climate-environment-7f9d8545a4ba04e3d398579b052d36dd?

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EXPLAINER: What came together to make deadly Alabama tornado

DENVER (AP) — A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely juiced by climate change, and a decades long eastward shift of tornadoes came together to create the unusually early and deadly storm system that hit Alabama Thursday, meteorologists said.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-science-weather-alabama-gulf-of-mexico-fa13b8eb2d175bc33ef4b7009576cc5e

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Survivors emerge from wreckage after US storms kill 9 people

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Stunned residents tried to salvage belongings, and rescue crews pulled survivors from beneath collapsed houses Friday in the aftermath of a tornado-spawning storm system that killed at least nine people as it barreled across parts of Georgia and Alabama.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-disaster-planning-and-response-selma-alabama-climate-environment-7f9d8545a4ba04e3d398579b052d36dd?

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In Alabama, tornadoes rattle historic civil rights community

Zakiya Sankara-Jabar’s cellphone buzzed relentlessly as a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes throughout the U.S. South laid waste to relatives’ homes and churches across a part of Alabama known as the Black Belt.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-voting-rights-alabama-state-government-selma-b92b6dd5a1a039c530b51a1b1ddae71a?

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As tornadoes hit, survivors hid in tubs, shipping container

MARBURY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama engine mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado from a violent storm decimated his shop and killed two of his neighbors along its destructive path across Alabama and Georgia.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-natural-disasters-alabama-georgia-storms-57edd68ae921958d581bbac2d2c306c4?

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In tornado-ravaged Selma, prayers of thanks

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Leading Sunday services on the lawn outside his tornado-damaged Crosspoint Christian Church, the Rev. David Nichols told his congregation there was much for which to be grateful despite the destruction around them.

https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-selma-climate-and-environment-children-752a91de49e7337bea3c0cfad378f9f3?