Скачать или смотреть Over 50 people killed and hundreds injured by tornadoes

(7 Feb 2008)
1. Damaged house
2. Debris from damage
3. Toy truck
4. Storm shelter
5. SOUNDBITE: Barbie McCuan, storm survivor
"We were in the shelter for about 15 seconds and then the tornado flew, you know, hit our area and the storm shelter that we were in, the top came off of it, and we could see our house flying over us while we were down in the shelter, so the only thing we could do was pray and lay on top of our boys, we have two little boys, Chase and Hayden, we were laying on top of them, and after about three minutes it was all over and everything was gone."
6. Storm shelter
7. SOUNDBITE: Barbie McCuan, storm survivor
"It's really sad because there's nothing that's going to bring back these belongings, we're really sad but we're lucky to be alive so none of this matters because it can all be replaced, but our lives couldn't."
8. Pan from shelter to damaged house
9. Turned over car
10. Damaged and turned-over cars
11. Damaged building
12. Debris and belongings
13. Damaged roof
14. Various of damaged dormitories
15. Students looking at dormitories
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lauren Jackson, Student
"It felt like it sucked you in to the middle of the hallway then throw you back up against the wall."
17. Student going through belongings inside room
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jesse Daigle, Student,
"I came inside and ran into the bathroom amd about 10 seconds later everything went quiet. When it went over the toilets flushed and our ears popped."
19. Damaged room
20. Damaged cars
21. Students looking at dormitory
22. Damaged cars
STORYLINE:
The tornado hit the McCuan's house just as dozens of other tornadoes blasted across five states Tuesday and Wednesday, obliterating buildings, flipping trucks, snapping trees in two and killing at least 55 people.
Barbie McCuan, her husband, and two kids hid in their storm shelter, a shelter they built six years ago - just in case.
McCuan said he tornado ripped off the doors to the shelter, and she and her husband held on to the kids.
She said she looked out and saw her house flying over her family.
"We were in the shelter for about 15 seconds and then the tornado flew, you know, hit our area and the storm shelter that we were in, the top came off of it, and we could see our house flying over us while we were down in the shelter, so the only thing we could do was pray and lay on top of our boys, we have two little boys", she said.
The barrage of twisters across Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama was the nation's deadliest in almost 23 years. The storms injured hundreds, flattened entire streets, smashed warehouses and sent tractor-trailers flying.
Houses were reduced to splintered piles of lumber. Some looked like life-size dollhouses, their walls sheared away. Crews going door to door to search for bodies had to contend with downed power lines, snapped trees and flipped-over cars.
Meanwhile, students took cover in dormitory bathrooms as the storms closed in on Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.
More than 20 students at the Southern Baptist school were trapped behind wreckage and jammed doors after the dormitories came down around them.
The storm left more 50 people dead across the South. Remarkably, no one died here.
About 50 Union students were taken to a hospital, nine of them with injuries classified as serious, said the school's news director.
Though the small, private college was heavily damaged, school officials said students escaped life-threatening injury primarily because they quickly took shelter in dorm bathrooms and other interior spaces.

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