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the city of Clarksville in Montgomery County, one of the
hardest-hit areas, the Red Cross set up a shelter at a local
high school to offer assistance to people who may have been
temporarily displaced by the tornadoes.
Shelters were also opened in Nashville and its suburbs.
"The road to recovery is going to take time and we ask that
citizens who are not directly involved in search, rescue, or
recovery efforts to avoid the impacted areas," the Clarksville
Police Department said on its Facebook page on Sunday.
"Emergency Crews are working as quickly as possible."
More than 40,000 people in Tennessee were left without power as
of Sunday morning, according to outage tracking website
poweroutage.us.
A car partly buried under a giant pile of rubble that used to be
someone's home, collapsed roofs and blown-out windows: These
were some of the dramatic images of the devastation caused by
the Tennessee tornadoes.
The six fatalities were reported by officials in Montgomery
County and in Nashville. A toddler was one of the three victims
of the storms in the Nashville area, police said, and 13 people
in stable condition were transported to nearby hospitals.
"Right now we're just trying to be with all those people who
lost so much," Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden told ABC News.
The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) in Nashville ended the
severe weather threat for all middle Tennessee late on Saturday.
The agency on Sunday said it was dispatching survey teams over
the coming days to the hardest-hit communities to assess the
path and strength of the tornadoes.
"We have had six likely confirmed tornado tracks," NWS Corey
Mueller told The Tennessean. "But they won’t be confirmed until
the survey team gets out there."
(Reporting by Maria Caspani, Editing by Mark Porter)
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