BREAKING: Alabama county coroner says four people have died in a giant storm system that blew through the South. Officials estimate that 40 to 50 homes were damaged or destroyed by storms that cut a strip across Autauga County, 41 miles outside Selma.
A few blocks past the city’s famed Edmund Pettus Bridge, an enduring symbol of the voting rights movement, buildings were crumpled by the storm and trees blocked roadways.
Selma, a city of about 18,000 residents, is about 50 miles west of the Alabama capital city of Montgomery.Selma was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement. Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. Among those beaten by law enforcement officers was John Lewis, whose skull was fractured. He went on to a long and distinguished career as a U.S. congressman.
“We stopped and we prayed. We followed it and prayed,” she said. “It was a 100% God thing that it turned right before it hit my house.”She took video of the giant twister, which would turn black as it swept away home after home.The weather service had issued a tornado emergency for several counties just north of the capital city of Montgomery as the same storm system moved eastward. “This is a life-threatening situation.
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