Tornado hits south, disrupts public life

Tornadoes cut the power supply, destroyed homes, downed trees and claimed five people in Alabama on Thursday. The coming of more severe thunderstorms this weekend has been forecasted.

There is a ‘marginal risk of severe thunderstorms on Friday in Georgia and the Carolinas as well as in parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, the Great Plains and the Northeast, the National Weather Service predicted.

Severe storms on Saturday are also possible in the Midwest, potentially bringing damaging wind and large hail, the weather service said.

The South was already rocked with severe weather this week. Five people were killed on Thursday in three different locations in Calhoun County, Alabama.

More than 35,000 people in Alabama and Georgia remained without power this Friday morning, according to the utility tracker, PowerOutage.us.