World Report: April 17, 1998 Vol.3 No.23
- This Issue:
- Table of Contents
- Cover Story
- Cover Story - Spanish Version
- Mini-Lesson
- Comprehension Quiz
- Teacher's Guide and Worksheets
Raging Winds of Destruction
Telephone poles were plucked from the ground and whipped across roadways. A huge trampoline was twisted around a telephone pole. Fifty-year-old trees were yanked out by their roots and slammed into homes, cars and churches.
Vicious tornadoes cut a strange, deadly path of damage across Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia last Wednesday. At least 38 people died and more than a hundred were hurt in the storms. More than 150 homes were destroyed in Alabama alone.
Winds whipped through the southeast at up to 250 miles per hour! President Clinton declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama and Georgia, and Vice President Al Gore visited the storm-ravaged area last Friday.
Julia Knox of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, lost everything but her clothes, two dogs and two cats. Still, she felt lucky. "I'm alive," she said.
