3 dead as suspected twisters, other storms batter the South

A daylong swarm of tornadoes that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed three people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes Tuesday.

It wasn't clear exactly how many twisters skipped across the region after the onslaught began early Monday, but the National Weather Service tweeted more than 240 tornado warnings for the region over a roughly 21-hour period.

The Storm Prediction Center logged at least three dozen reports of storm damage from east Texas to Alabama and as far north as Tennessee, and potential twisters were still swirling in southeast Alabama.

The cat flew, said Tonia Tyler of Pineville, Louisiana. It picked the cat up, and the cat flew my cat it flew across the yard. And I knew right there, I said 'Oh God, we're not going to make it.'"
It's bad. There's animals out, houses tore down,"she said. The barns are gone. You can't even find some of the properties. Houses that used to be here, you can't even find them anymore."