An 8 year old girl is dead.

I have a very large family. They are from all sorts of trade and education. Some like to do home improvement and some even have built their own homes. They volunteer with "Habitat for Humanity" and they are Republicans. I know the pride they took when they built their own homes to code. I cannot imagine the feeling of such devastation to their homes should such tragedy ever visit them. To think the brick home they built betrayed them, would be devastating.

April 20, 2019

A friend of the owner (click here) reviews the remains of a storm damaged house in Morton, Mississippi on April 19, 2019, following a possible tornado touchdown Thursday afternoon, as strong storms again roared across the South on Thursday, topping trees and leaving a variety of damage in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

Atlanta — A strong storm system (click here) barreling through the South killed an 8-year-old girl in Florida on Friday and threatened to bring tornadoes to large parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia on Saturday.

A tree fell onto a house in Woodville, Florida, south of Tallahassee, killing the girl and injuring a 12-year-old boy, according to the Leon County Sheriff's Office. The office said in a statement that the girl died at a hospital while the boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Their names weren't immediately released.

The same storm system was blamed for the deaths a day earlier of two people in Mississippi and a woman in Alabama.

The threat on Friday shifted farther east, where tornado warnings covered parts of northeast Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, where four suspected tornado touchdowns were reported Friday night. Twisters touched down in Reston, Fredericks Hall, Barham and Forksville. Homes and small structures were damaged, but no injuries were immediately reported....