It’s like something you see on TV,” Moore said of all the destruction.Ī city of about 18,000 people, Selma is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the Alabama capital of Montgomery. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days. Nationwide, there were 33 separate tornado reports Thursday from the National Weather Service as of Thursday evening, with a handful of tornado warnings still in effect in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Those systems enroll a total of 90,000 students.
School systems in at least six Georgia counties on the southern fringes of metro Atlanta canceled classes on Friday. The city of Griffin imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. A high school was damaged, and students were held at four middle schools for parents to pick up after officials determined it was unsafe to run buses. Firefighters also cut a Griffin man loose who had been pinned for hours under a tree that fell on his house. Officials in Griffin, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it.
