By Perry Bacon Jr., Joel Achenbach and William Branigin, Washington Post
President Obama walked through a tornado-ravaged neighborhood in Tuscaloosa on Friday and promised “maximum federal help” to the survivors of a series of deadly twisters that carved paths of destruction and claimed nearly 300 lives in six Southern states.
“I’ve never seen devastation like this,” Obama said as he toured the Alberta section of the city with first ladyMichelle Obama and gazed at crumpled houses, uprooted trees and destroyed cars. “It is heart-breaking.”
The powerful tornadoes left stunned residents literally picking up the pieces Friday, as they sought to salvage what they could in shattered homes from Mississippi to Virginia.
It was the nation’s deadliest natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina — a “tornado outbreak” rarely seen on such a scale.
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