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2 days ago
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Neighbors describe searching for injured 18-year-old, watching tornado touch down in Henry County
Residents are recalling the moments they saw a tornado touch down in their Henry County neighborhood and the subsequent search for an injured man. NewsChopper 2 flew over Fresh Laurel Lane where an EF-2 tornado destroyed a home on Thursday afternoon. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Malachi Chaney, 18, was thrown 300 feet from the house and severely injured. He remains in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital. Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes visited what was left of the home on Friday and spoke with neighbors who described the terrifying moments. 'It was just raining, there was no wind, just a steady rain, and I was standing in my kitchen, and I started hearing like 'ping, ping, ping,' and I was like, 'What is that?' And I pulled the sliding glass door back right here, and I see right over here a funnel touching the ground. I immediately ran in my closet, covered my head, and took cover, and just started praying, panicking, and I could hear things hitting the house. It was really loud," Courtney Bucio said. RELATED STORIES: 'The Wire' actor says his son was 'thrown 300 feet' from their home in Henry County tornado Tornado touches down in Henry County, 18-year-old critically injured Tornado touches down in Henry County, crosses I-75 When the noises stopped, neighbors came outside and learned their neighbor Tray Chaney, an actor who played Malik 'Poot' Carr on 'The Wire,' and his 18-year-old son were in the home. Neighbors say Malachi Chaney was upstairs playing video games when the tornado hit. Fernandes took neighbors' concerns for their safety to the homebuilder, Century Communities. They say their homes are well-constructed. A spokesperson said that any home would have looked like that if it was directly hit by a tornado. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
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3 days ago
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Broadband project brings internet to 600 homes in Killingsworth Cove
MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Killingsworth Cove is still recovering from the damage that an EF-2 tornado left behind last week, but a longtime project has finally been completed that could possibly help that community moving forward. 'To see the outpouring of support, the constant messages through Facebook and on my personal phone of people want to come out and help the organizations that have disaster relief supplies and money that want to donate that to the to the affected families, it's been awesome,' Killingsworth Cove Volunteer Fire Captain Nathan Aston said. City of Hanceville won't have police department until 2026, will sell off vehicles The storm damage cleanup process continues, but on Thursday, the community received an announcement: 600 homes in Killingsworth Cove will have access to fiber optic broadband internet. 'It just makes it more evident that how this underserved community, how important this broadband project is to them,' Madison County Commissioner Craig Hill said. In addition to a lack of internet resources, Killingsworth Cove has poor cell reception. Broadband means more access to services that could come in handy for future severe weather, like WIFI calling. 'A lot of family members could not get in touch with their family members, and we have generator power on all of our systems,' said New Hope Telephone Cooperative General Manager Daniel Martin. 'So, if they have a battery backup at the house or they have a home generator, those services will continue to work always.' 'Grateful to be alive, it's a miracle': Muscle Shoals woman paralyzed after tree falls on her car during storms The Killingsworth Cove Volunteer Fire Department has relied on dial-up internet, and Aston said this change will help them better connect with the community they serve. 'We've been trying get our department, as remote as it is, access to the broadband Internet so that we could get access to training materials, lifesaving things, even our AEDs have to update over Internet for their services and supplies, and we just weren't able to do any of that,' Aston said. This is Madison County's first public-private broadband partnership, and Hill said he hopes to see broadband availability spread to other communities like Maysville and Gurley. The two-million-dollar Killingsworth Cove project was funded by the American Rescue Plan and New Hope Telephone Cooperative. Hill said he has been working on this project for several years. The infrastructure is officially in place, and some living in Killingsworth Cove are already connected. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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21-05-2025
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Residents hit during Elbert County tornado on Sunday being clean up efforts
ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Residents in Elbert County are still reeling as cleanup begins from the damage after that EF-2 tornado ripped through multiple areas Sunday night. Debris is still across the fields in front of homes with tarps on roofs and boarded-up windows. The damage is concentrated along Northout Road. The neighborhood and multiple communities have come together to help pitch in. Couple rushes to basement to survive tornado in Elbert County Nearly a dozen homes were damaged, some now unlivable. Like Tim Greenwood's who said he, his wife and their dog barely made it out. 'I looked out the window and saw debris in the field and I yelled to my wife, 'tornado!' She's like, 'grab the dog, let's go to the basement.' We had like 10 seconds. Glass was shattering, stuff was falling all over the place. We just barely made it,' Greenwood said Some houses were left untouched by the wreckage, but their owners, like Crystal Wahl, felt the need to lend a helping hand. 'We didn't know what we were coming home to because a few of our neighbors called us and said the funnel is over your house. It's a shock, I guess, to say the least,' she said. Lunch and other food were delivered to multiple neighbors and people helping residents at the nearby Heather Garden Retirement Home. Volunteers from a church in Castle Rock worked alongside neighbors cleaning up debris, as well as a Parker church that donated porta-potties. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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21-05-2025
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Greene County worries for citizens mental health after tornado
GREENE COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – Following Friday night's damaging storms and EF-2 tornado in Greene County, local officials are discussing the importance of taking care of mental health. The Linton Assembly of God Church has counseling available for people who may be struggling during this time. Greene County EMA Director Roger Axe encourages people to lean on others for support. 'They have to realize that they are not alone. A lot of times people feel alone because this is not talked about. It's a stigma,' said Axe. Organizations are also providing essential resources to those impacted, such as food and water. Those supplies are available at the former National Guard Armory in Linton. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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19-05-2025
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Survivors reflect, start to rebuild after Linton tornado
LINTON, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — The survivors of Friday night's tornado in Linton are still coming to grips with what happened. 'My husband stepped out here in the driveway and he looked towards the back of our house and he saw it and he screamed for me to get my children inside,' said Mary Hogue as she stood next to her destroyed home Monday. 'I ran inside, slammed all the doors in the hallway/ I had my children get down.' And then the family huddled together as an EF-2 tornado passed over them. 'It happened so quick you could hear it just coming. My husband barely made it in the house in time. He jumped on top of us, and where we were positioned in the hallway, my husband was actually like up in the air and his feet were up in the air,' Hogue said. 'He had his hands like locked in to hold the family down, and he just kept saying, 'It'll pass.'' The tornado destroyed some homes and spared others. 'When I got home, my granddaughter was here and she said, 'It's okay, mama,'' said Sharon Payne, another survivor. 'Sorry if I cry, but it's very scary. And she said, 'You'll be surprised, but your house is okay.' While her house is still standing, Payne lives in a neighborhood that was nearly wiped out. 'It's just devastating,' she said. 'These kids here just moved in, and they just got everything settled. They had a big barn that flew away. A little shed, and their house was so cute, and they're just devastated.' Payne and others are still trying to make sense of what happened. 'We built our house in the 70s, and I've never seen a tornado here, and it's just hard to, it's just hard to take it and just see that it's really here,' Payne said. 'I just feel like I'm in a dream….a bad dream.' For the Hogues, the storm may have taken their home, but it left them with what was most important. 'I don't know if my children would be here if it wasn't for my husband,' Mary Hogue said. 'Like, I mean, he truly saved us. … My dog ran outside, and he made it. Like we don't know where the dog was, what the dog was doing, but he made it too.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
