SLIDESHOW: Tornadoes, flooding damage homes across the country
As severe weather swept across the United States on Friday, two tornadoes caused damage to numerous homes and businesses in northern Alabama. Flooding damaged property across West Virginia.
This home near Pepper Road could be seen from Lisa Lane, where homes were also heavily damaged. This area of Limestone County was struck by the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak.
An Athens Utility worker calls in damage to utility poles on Nick Davis Road.
Debris wrapped around poles on Cumberland Drive that withstood the unconfirmed, as of Friday afternoon, tornado that tore through East Limestone.
Piles of debris littered the roadside at Nick Davis Road in East Limestone.
Trees were broken and scattered like matchsticks along Nick Davis Road.
Athens Utility workers were marking downed lines on Nick Davis Friday in order to help keep residents safe.
Cumberland Place resident Shelly Lewis surveys the damage in her back yard Friday following an unconfirmed tornado that traveled through the East Limestone area.
The Limestone County Sheriff’s office set up a mobile Incident Command Center at the East Limestone Senior Center, also known as the Laucourt Event Center, following two morning tornadoes in East Limestone Friday. From left, Amy Golden, Athens Utilities spokeswoman, Limestone County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Fred Sloss and Chief Randy King coordinate traffic and utility efforts in the area.
A home on Lisa Drive.
Many roads in eastern Limestone County were impassable due to downed power lines. These lines fell along Mooresville Road in an area that was damaged in the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak.
Utility lines were down on Mooresville Road.
Ronnie Trussell, far left, was in his home on Royal St. George Street in Canebrake subdivision in Limestone County when a tornado struck at about 9:15 a.m. Friday. His hand was injured by flying debris but was otherwise uninjured.
Workers dig for buried vehicles in the wreckage of a mobile home and debris tossed around by Wednesday’s floods in West Virginia.
Storms have caused flooding across West Virginia, including in the town of Fairmont.
Holbert Road
Storms have caused flooding across West Virginia, including in the town of Fairmont.
Storms have caused flooding across West Virginia, including in the town of Fairmont.
Storms have caused flooding across West Virginia, including the town of Fairmont.
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