But residents who have chosen to stay or have not yet relocated faced a new heartache when when a tornado ripped
through a 20-block swath of Picher late Saturday afternoon, killing at least seven people.
The same storm system then moved into southwest Missouri where tornadoes took the lives of at least 12 other people,
authorities said.
On Sunday, storms rumbled across Georgia, killing at least one person in Dublin, about 120 miles (193 kilometers)
southeast of Atlanta, authorities said. Weather officials had not yet confirmed whether the storms produced any
tornadoes.
Georgia Power officials say at least 80,000 residents are without electricity across the state, mostly concentrated
in the metro Atlanta area and the Macon area.
In Oklahoma, Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said Picher’s victims included an infant. He said at least three people
were confirmed missing. “We’ve seen homes that were completely leveled to the foundation,” Brown said. “In a few of these homes you would have had to be subterranean to survive.”
