(9 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, Tennessee – 9 May 2024
1. Wide of a brick house with roof missing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Spring Hill, Tennessee – 9 May 2024
2. Medium of utility workers walking through the debris of a home
3. Wide of a man cutting tree limb with a chainsaw
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Barnes, Spring Hill, Tennessee resident:
"We were home. I had just gotten home. My wife was home cooking dinner. We didn’t have much warning. Once we knew what was happening and we saw what was coming, I knew it wasn’t right. We got downstairs. That’s all we could do.
(Reporter: Could you see it? Anything from here?)
You could see it coming across the hill. But you couldn’t tell what it was. But you could definitely hear it. And you could feel it."
(Reporter: What did it feel like a pressure? or like?)
Oh, you could feel the rumble. You could actually feel it coming. I can’t explain it. It was like ten trains going down the road at one time."
5. Wide of construction workers removing debris
6. Wide of workers putting tarp on a house
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Barnes, Spring Hill, Tennessee resident:
"I mean, the force was so strong coming through our basement that it blew the doors out, going to the back of the house from what was coming through the house, from the upstairs."
8. Wide of Sam Barnes talking to utility workers
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Barnes, Spring Hill, Tennessee resident:
"It was raining. It was really. It was… it wasn’t dark yet, but it was raining. And it was… it was darker outside. Most of us that were here started grabbing chainsaws and trying to get the roads opened, because we knew with the there were people that were trapped in some other houses and that there might be some people hurt. So we went to work actually trying to clear the roads. Really didn’t get a chance to look at it till this morning. And in the light, of course, it is pretty bad."
10. Tight on a damaged house
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, Tennessee – 9 May 2024
11. Wide on a construction worker removing trees
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Walter Shell, Columbia, Tennessee resident:
"But it missed my, where me and my wife were standing about about four inches. It went around. And it pays to pray. I just got done praying to the Lord, ‘Please God don’t let nobody get hurt.’ And so far as I know nobody got hurt. But a lot of houses have been destroyed because of that."
13. Wide of debris
STORYLINE:
The storms continue a streak of torrential rains and tornadoes this week from the Plains to the Midwest and, now, the Southeast.
At least four people have died since Monday.
The weather comes on the heels of a stormy April in which the U.S. had 300 confirmed tornadoes, the second-most on record for the month and the most since 2011.
One in Tennessee damaged homes, injured people, toppled power lines and trees, and killed a 22-year-old man in a car in Claiborne County, north of Knoxville, officials said.
A second person was killed south of Nashville in Columbia, where officials said a likely tornado blew homes off their foundations.
In Columbia, retired pastor Walter Shell said he and his wife grabbed their two dogs and headed for the basement when his phone alerted him to a tornado.
“It missed where me and my wife were standing by about about 4 inches. It went around,” he said. “It pays to pray, I can tell you.”
In Spring Hill, Sam Barnes and his wife had very little notice the storm was approaching, other than an ominous sound coming toward their home.
===========================================================
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b476741ad59b4b38b4dbf09cedb42043
