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Montgomery Advertiser 2A Sunday, December 17, 2000 Storms: Damage. EMERGENCY ROOM Baptist South is today's designated trauma center until 7 a.m. Monday. injuries widespread as twisters state "4 barrage From Page 1A I 1 Saturday's numbers Florida Cash 3: 2-3-0 Play 5-8-1-4 Fant. 5: 4-7-8-18-21 Lotto: 14-22-29-31-39-43 Georgia Cash 3 Midday: 3-8-8 Cash 3 Evening: 2-3-9 Cash 4: 7-0-2-8 Fant.

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Twisters first struck Henry, Dale, Geneva and Houston counties not far from the Florida line just before noon damaging houses, businesses and other buildings. Geneva Mayor Warren Beck that at least eight people injured when the tornado struck a two-block area, missing "the town's central business district by about 400 yards. He said 'about 30 houses were damaged. "It's a lot worse than I first thought," Beck said. "We're used hurricanes and flooding down here.

Tornadoes aren't in our vo-Icabulary." Beck said a funeral home, grocery and at least one other were damaged by the 'tornado. He said the most seri-Tously injured Geneva resident was taken to a Dothan hospital for treatment George Furqueron, acting di- rector of the Dale County E-911 said a tornado touched tdown in the Newton-Pinckard communities near Ozark. "It was the same storm cloud that hit Geneva first," said. "We had some injuries, but we're not sure of their ex--tent." Furqueron said the West Point Pepperill textile facility and a peanut plant both in Henry County were damaged by the tornado. Newton Town Clerk Kaye Johnson said South Dale Junior High School was damaged, but no one was at the school.

She said Mayor Mike Byrd called out everyone who was available to help with any damage that might have occurred. "The mayor called me at home and said for me to open the town hall, answer the phones and make sandwiches," said Johnson, who added the mayor had spent most of the day traveling through the town to check on damage. Byrd said about four houses were hit hard at Doe Run Estates between Newton and Pinckard and emergency crews had spent A 4 ax Three Bear Creek residents walk through their neighborhood Saturday in Tuscaloosa. Presidentpublisher Scott M. Brown 261-1582 Executive editor Paula S.

Moore 261-1509 Managing editor Andrew Oppmann 261-1516 Advertising director Terry Sullivan 261-1571 Circulation director Rufus Friday 261-1506 Marketing director Don Halleck 261-1551 Production director Mike O'Connor 264-1657 ext. 123 Controller Delinda Renner 261-1552 Human Resources director Fred Villacampa 261-1574 Systems director Roy Paul 261-1554 much of the day helping in that area. "We've had some devastation, but nothing compared to Tuscaloosa," Byrd said. "It keeps getting warmer. We hope all this ends soon." Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton said the tornado hit in two different areas, and that authorities were continuing to search for victims Saturday evening.

"We are still trying to find out how many are unaccounted for. There were people out there Christmas shopping and all. We just don't know where they are," Sexton said. Joe Hayes, 61, said he was outside his home in Hinton Place when he saw the tornado coming. He said it was black and wide and that part of it dropped out of the sky.

He said he watched as the tornado hit a Winn-Dixie grocery store under construction on Alabama 69 in Tuscaloosa. "I saw it coming all the way. It hit that store. Then it came right up the driveway at me," Hayes said. He said he saw the storm lift a small pickup truck with three young men inside.

"I saw it throw some kids out of it," he said. He said one of the young men in the truck was killed and another injured when he was thrown into the side of a brick house. Hayes said there were about 12 people huddled in the basement of his home when the storm hit. The roof was mostly blown off his house and there was a pickup truck in the swimming pool, i The Tuscaloosa neighborhood was pitch black Saturday night as the power remained out and Two people console each other after a tornado touched down in their Tuscaloosa subdivision Saturday. To subscribe 269-0010 in Montgomery area (800) 488-3579 toll-free in Alabama www.rnorTtgomeryadvertisar.corn the temperature began to drop.

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You didn't know if you were going to live or not," Myrtle Watson said. Debris was hanging from the tops of trees and was scattered along the roads south of Tuscaloosa. Many trees looked like they had been twisted and broken off halfway up. The Red Cross opened three shelters Saturday night in Tuscaloosa County. Alabama Power Co.

officials said the storm knocked out power to about 43,000 customers, raising concerns because temperatures in Tuscaloosa and other parts of Alabama were expected to drop into the low 20s Saturday night. Kenny Thomas was soaking wet at the home his sister, Beverly Smith, whose trailer was blown off its foundation and into a tree. Smith was hiding in the trailer's bathroom when the tornado hit. "It picked the trailer up," Thomas said. Smith is in a Tuscaloosa hospital with bruises and cuts and complaining of chest pains.

In the yard, next to the trailer was a black pickup truck with the roof caved in. In a puddle was a photograph of a man, a woman and a child. A tree in the yard was filled with orange insulation and looked like it had been decorated for Christmas. At the Bear Creek trailer park, Jamie Porter was not deterred by law officers sealing off the site. He walked a roundabout way through woods to find his trailer home hurled across a road into a pile of debris.

With it went the Christmas tree and presents he and his wife, Rosemary, had bought for their 1-year-old son, Wesley. "I think that's going to be the hardest part. Going through and finding his Christmas. I'll pull it out and give it to him if I have to," said Porter. The governor activated the state emergency operations center in Clanton on Saturday to coordinate emergency response to the storms.

At Tuscaloosa's DCH Regional Medical Center, officials said they treated 39 people. Another 15 were treated at DCH's hospital in Northport. The hospital admitted 17 of the injured and three were listed in critical condition. Trees and power lines were toppled in Limestone County in north Alabama, where seven homes and three mobile homes were destroyed and 20 homes were damaged. The Associated Press contributed to this report Circulation rates for mail subscription available on request and subject to change without notice.

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