Authorities issued a flurry of tornado warnings at the start of what could be two days of violent weather in the region.
Violent storms killed one person in Texas and another in Georgia on Tuesday as hail pelted communities and high winds knocked trees into power poles elsewhere in the South.
Carter Infinger, chairman of the Bryan County Commission, said some buildings in the Pembroke area were damaged, but he wasn't sure if there was more widespread destruction. He said cellphone service was down in parts of the county. Gage Moore, 23, of Midway, Georgia, was driving home from work Tuesday evening on Interstate 16 in the county where Pembroke is located when his fiancée called to tell him she heard tornado sirens. About two minutes later, Moore said, he looked up to see a towering twister looming to the left of the highway. Moore said he pulled over and stopped his car behind an overpass, then took cellphone video of the funnel cloud churning across the interstate.
A car flipped upside down is seen after a tornado in Arabi, New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, March 23, 2022. At least one person was killed and multiple injured after tornado moved into southern U.S. state Louisiana and struck parts of the state's biggest city New Orleans and its suburbs on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday.More than 50,000 homes and businesses were without power Tuesday afternoon from eastern Texas to South Carolina.
Debate was also delayed for nearly an hour in the South Carolina legislature after the state House chamber was evacuated for a tornado warning for Columbia. The legislation being debated would require athletes to compete with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
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