32 people have died in America due to hurricanes

The death toll rose to 32 after a series of severe storms and tornadoes ravaged communities in the American South and Midwest, while parts of the Southern Plains braced themselves for severe weather.

Friday’s nationwide blast leveled homes and businesses in at least seven states, tearing roofs off buildings, uprooting trees and sending vehicles flying into the air, generating more than 50 reports.

Several deaths were reported in Arkansas, Indiana and Tennessee, where the statewide death toll rose to 12 after authorities confirmed three more deaths in Memphis on Sunday: two children and an adult. Police responded to calls about trees down on homes, according to a Memphis Police Department news release.

Seven people died in McNairy County, Tennessee, and five more in Indiana.

In other deaths, four people died in Illinois when the roof of the Apollo Theater in Belvidere collapsed Friday, killing one, leaving more than 200 people inside and injuring two dozen, according to the city’s fire chief. Three people have died after a residential building collapsed in Crawford County, Illinois, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency said.

State and local officials also reported one death in each of the following locations: North Little Rock, Arkansas; Madison County, Alabama; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Finally, the storm system caused another person to die after a building collapsed in Delaware’s Sussex County, the county’s emergency operations center said.

The latest surge of extreme weather in the South and Midwest comes a week after a severe tornado-spawning storm swept through the Southeast, killing at least 26 people and destroying much of Mississippi’s Rolling Fork.

The governors of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and Arkansas declared emergency or disaster declarations in their states to help provide immediate aid to affected counties, and on Sunday, President Joe Biden issued a major disaster declaration for Arkansas.

According to the White House, the announcement frees up federal resources to help victims in Cross, Lonoke and Pulaski counties, which include the city of Little Rock, where there was no serious damage but no deaths as of Saturday afternoon.

The focus now is on recovery and rebuilding, said Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. About 2,600 structures in Little Rock were damaged and about 50 people were sent to hospitals, the mayor said.

“Every time you see vehicles blown up, structures crushed, it’s unbelievable,” the mayor said. “Many are not at home. It would have been a massacre,” Scott Jr. told CNN.

In addition to leaving a trail of destruction, the storms also left stricken communities without power. More than 30,000 customers were without power in Arkansas as of Sunday morning, and hundreds of thousands were without power in the South and Northeast, including 120,000 in Pennsylvania and 73,000 in Ohio.

The severe weather left Wynne, Arkansas, “split in half with damage from east to west,” said Mayor Jennifer Hobbs, who watched the tornado approach from afar.

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