Tornadoes Batter Nashville

The glass from Nashville’s skyline lay on the city’s deserted streets today after two tornadoes that killed 13 people elsewhere in the South ripped a six-mile gash through the city. Most of the country music capital was without power last night, and at least 500 buildings were seriously damaged. The tornadoes were the second wave of killer storms in eight days to move through the South, during a storm season that has killed more than 100 people since February. The storm system heads across the Southeast and southern New England today.

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