GEORGE WALKER IV

Floodwaters cover the entryway to the Weather Stone subdivision off Russellville Road in Bowling Green, Ky., on Friday, April 4, 2025. (Grace McDowell/Daily News via AP)
South and Midwest pounded by rains and floods while still reeling from tornadoes
Parts of the Midwest and South have been battered by torrential rains and life-threatening flash floods. Friday’s fresh storms come as many communities are still reeling from deadly tornadoes that destroyed entire neighborhoods.
 
Storm damaged homes are seen Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Selmer, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Storms kill 7 in the South and Midwest as forecasters warn of catastrophic rains, floods this week
Violent storms and tornadoes have torn through cities from Oklahoma to Indiana during what could be a record period of deadly weather and flooding. The storms destroyed homes and sent debris nearly 5 miles into the air in one location.
 
Jonah Wark, right, kisses his wife Sara Martin outside their flood-damaged home on the Pigeon River in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Newport, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Asheville has been isolated after Helene wrecked roads and knocked out power and cell service
Floodwaters pushed by remnants of Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service.
 
Haley Loukota, left, and her fiance Devin Johnson collect their belongings from storm debris after their home was demolished along Barnsley Loop, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Madisonville, Ky. A series of powerful storms hit the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Kentucky families struggling after being hit for a second time by a tornado in the same locations
Devin Johnson’s life has been uprooted for a second time by a tornado in Kentucky. A twister flattened his home in the Barnsley community over the Memorial Day weekend.
 
Valerie Bernhardt looks through debris at her stormed damaged home Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbia, Tenn. A wave of dangerous storms began crashing over parts of the South on Thursday, a day after severe weather with damaging tornadoes killed at least three people in the region. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Storm-battered South is again under threat. A boy swept into a drain fights for his life
A 10-year-old boy is in grave condition in Tennessee after being swept into a storm drain in a community southeast of Nashville.
 
A storm damaged mobile home rests in the street at Pavilion Estates mobile home park just east of Kalamazoo, Mich. Wednesday, May 8, 2024. A tornado ripped through the area the evening of May 7. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
Powerful storms kill 3 as tornadoes tear through central and southeastern US
Severe storms are tearing through the central and southeast U.S., spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina.
 
Wildland firefighter students from Alabama A&M and Tuskegee universities listen during a wildland firefighter training Friday, June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala. A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and four historically Black colleges and universities is opening the eyes of students of color who had never pictured themselves as fighting forest fires. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
US Forest Service and historically Black colleges unite to boost diversity in wildland firefighting
A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and historically Black colleges or universities is opening the eyes of students of color who never pictured themselves fighting forest fires.