The mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama, estimates cleaning up all the damage from the deadly tornado on Sunday will take months
SMITHS STATION, Ala.—Two days after a tornado ripped through his small town, leaving as many as 70 families homeless, Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland walked the debris-lined roads, hugging residents and dispatching volunteers to lift tree limbs off totaled cars and distribute donations.
Hawks and drones circled overhead, as the mayor showed U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers around his rural town of 5,000 residents, which suffered extensive damage in the storm Sunday afternoon. At West Smiths Elementary School, which is likely closed through...
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