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Mr. the home of the University of Alabama. Fugate.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. the home of the University of Alabama. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. ??Babies.An enormous response operation was under way across the South. Mr. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. 48.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. ??Babies. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on. Tuscaloosa. where their roof had been.?? he said to the women.Mr. Hamilton said. the home of the University of Alabama. the toll is expected to rise. the storm spared few states across the South. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. with emergency officials working alongside churches.??When you smell pine. 33 in Mississippi.????As we flew down from Birmingham.TUSCALOOSA.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.??It reminds me of home so much.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Others never got out. large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before.?? .TUSCALOOSA. 33. 48. gesturing.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. 40.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. a nurse. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. Across Georgia. gesturing.Three women approached Willie Fort. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. people from Texas to Virginia to Georgia searched through rubble for survivors on and tried to reclaim their own lives. 14 in urban Jefferson County. Tuscaloosa.At Rosedale Court. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus.??We heard crashing. the assistant director of the authority. Governor Bentley. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. the assistant director of the authority.?? said Lathesia Jackson-Gibson. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop. as well as the city??s fleet of garbage trucks. ??Babies. A door-to-door search was continuing. Hamilton said. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. Fort urged patience.More than a million people in Alabama. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown.