ADEL, Georgia (AP) – Deadly weather in the Southeast killed 15 people and injured dozens more, authorities said Sunday, as residents along the Georgia-Florida line braced for more intense, fast-moving storms – including unusually strong “long track” twisters.
On Sunday, a tornado blew through a mobile home park in rural Cook County in southern Georgia – sheering off siding, upending homes and killing seven people, officials said.
Coroner Tim Purvis said an apparent tornado “leveled” the park before dawn Sunday and that emergency responders searched for survivors for hours after the twister struck. Purvis said the park had about 40 mobile homes, and roughly half were destroyed. The area was cordoned off by police.
Photographs from Cook County posted by WSB-TV (http://2wsb.tv/2jPv8Ec) showed a large area strewn with twisted metal and broken wooden beams, with some mobile homes damaged but still standing.
Jalen Bennett, who lives about a mile from the mobile home park, said he was sleeping when a severe weather alarm sounded on his cellphone at about 4 a.m.