RUN, RUN, RUN FROM THE COLD-HEARTED BASTARD CHRISTIAN GOD AND HIS SWATH OF DESTRUCTION

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MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- Lines of powerful thunderstorms pelted the South

with heavy wind, rain and hail Wednesday, turning a skating rink into a hulk

of twisted metal soon after the 31 preschoolers and four adults inside had

fled to the only part of the building that turned out to be safe.

One child suffered a broken bone and another a cut to the head. But everyone

else emerged unharmed from the crumpled wreck of the Fun Zone Skate Center

in Montgomery, Alabama. The facility doubled as a day-care facility.

"I'm amazed that anyone got out of there," said Montgomery Mayor Bobby

Bright.

Several states were battered by the storms, which unleashed tornadoes and

straight-line winds that overturned mobile homes and tractor-trailers,

uprooted trees and knocked down power lines. At least one person was killed

and several injured. (Watch witnesses describe the storms' fury -- 2:15 )

Authorities were unsure whether it was a tornado that hit the skate center

about 10:15 a.m.

Jon Slaughter, who owns two nearby businesses, arrived at the skate center

with two employees about five minutes after the building was ripped

apart.(Watch shocked storm victims -- 1:54 )

"What I saw was just utter destruction," Slaughter said. "The children were

scared, they were cold and dirty. They were crying and upset, but really

they were calmer than I thought they would be."

The manager of the day-care center operating inside the building had made

everyone get into the section of the building that survived the high winds.

"She may have saved many of these children's lives," the mayor said.(YES,

SHE SAVED THEM FROM THE COLD-HEARTED BASTARD CHRISTIAN GOD)

The damage was so severe some witnesses were in disbelief that everyone

inside could have walked out. Two people crawled under the beams and

wreckage looking for kids, but everyone already was out.

"I wasn't panicked until I saw the building," said Russell Grant, who showed

up to take home his 5-year-old son, Justin, after hearing what had happened.

Storms, tornadoes tear through South

Dozens of buildings were damaged in four southwestern Mississippi counties

and across the state line in three Louisiana parishes.

At least one tornado cut a path about 2 miles wide and up to 4 miles long in

Greensburg, Louisiana, toppling trees and damaging buildings and power

lines, said Maj. Michael Martin of the St. Helena Parish Sheriff's Office.

One man was killed when his home, a trailer covered by a wooden structure,

was destroyed, he said.

At least one tornado cut a path about two miles wide and three or four miles

long in Greensburg, La., north of New Orleans, toppling trees and damaging

buildings and power lines, said Maj. Michael Martin of the St. Helena Parish

Sheriff's Office. A 43-year-old man was killed when the trailer he was in

was destroyed, he said.

"That home just exploded," said Gordon Burgess, president of neighboring

Tangipahoa Parish.

In Mississippi's Lamar County, emergency operations center director James

Smith said a possible tornado struck a subdivision outside Sumrall at about

2:50 a.m.

"It appears to be a tornado from the reports of damage we've received --

including 11 destroyed or damaged homes -- and from the track," Smith said.

Smith said six people were taken to hospitals from the Sumrall area, and the

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said two other people were injured

in Greene County.

Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, devastated last year by Hurricane Katrina,

heavy rain flooded streets and closed some schools. City Hall in Biloxi

suffered roof and water damage, and Mayor A.J. Holloway told The Sun Herald

it appeared that a small tornado had touched down in the area.

As the storms moved eastward, as much as 4 inches of rain fell in southern

Alabama, flooding some homes, authorities reported. A tornado that hit a

community in rural Pike County destroyed a volunteer fire department

building and knocked down a water tower, flooding the area where it landed,

a sheriff's official said.

A possible tornado tore through a community south of Montgomery, toppling

trees, overturning a mobile home and knocking out power at a school. Storms

overturned trailers in the southeast Alabama town of Elba, injuring several

people, police investigator Tony Harrison said.

In Arkansas, the thunderstorms toppled tractor-trailer rigs along Interstate

40 in Arkansas, and police said at least four people were hospitalized.

Authorities said a hotel near Wheatley had structural damage.

The storms caused flash flooding in Arkansas, including the Little Rock

area, where police said they rescued two people who escaped high water by

climbing trees.

More than 3.5 inches of rain fell at Little Rock, including more than an

inch in 20 minutes at the city's airport, the weather service said. Hail the

diameter of quarters pounded areas west of the city.