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The houses that don't have basements. i think about -- you know, there's a lot of mobile homes. i think about the individual housing that may not have been as sturdy to withstand something like this. my dad lives on a street called oak heights. and i've heard from a few people over that way that the tornado apparently went through that street. which is one of the most residential parts of the town. and so, you know, who knows, who knows what they're waking up to this morning. and what those houses are going to look like. you know, it's obviously wintertime now, most of -- think about these hou...

In the afternoon. i mean, there's not much else you could do. i know in these situations, especially with kids and the injuries and fatalities at the school, you just want to assign blame somehow. but i think everything was done properly. >> you know, so people evacuate order did they go to their base snmt we saw streets and streets destroyed and not everyone who lived in these homes perished. >> a lot of places in this area don't have basements. a lot of places in the east have basements but they don't. either a storm shelter or go to a friend's storm shelter. that's what they were dealing wi...

Big storms. >> yeah, you know, this will probably go down as the most tornadoes of any month ever. april typically has around 100 tornadoes. the report as of a couple of hours ago is we're up to 808 tornadoes this month. so you're absolutely right. the most active month and may is the most active month typically so hopefully that will change but when you get stuck in a pattern like we're stuck in, sometimes you see repeats of this which is what we've seen so far. hopefully that won't continue to be the case but there aren't any big indications that this will change, this pattern. >> i just fee...

>> absolutely. people in mississippi and areas around want to hear you say this is over. >> well, it is going to be over today. >> the frontal boun doer that we saw a lot of these storms gone, has pushed much farther from the east. a much better weather day today. yesterday, it was a horrible situation. one thing, brook, we like to tell our viewers is that one of the issues you have in a place like yazoo city, the water table tends to be very high. you don't have to dig down deep to run into very moist earth. the safest place to be during times of a strong tornado is underground. many people i...