A whole roof lies in the street, ripped away from the rest of the building and now lying alongside the church it was designed to protect.<br /><br />This is just one example of the widespread tornado damage in the US – and now more storms are forecast across an even wider area..<br /><br />Kimberly, Alabama is one of many towns in the southern states where extreme weather has wreaked havoc, killing at least 30 people.<br /><br />The tornadoes left even the emergency services powerless to come to the aid of those in need.<br /><br />Kimberly’s fire station and engines lay under a layer of debris.<br /><br />“I was standing right here and I heard a big wind come, almost like the train. So I went back inside and by the time I got back inside it started coming at us and then we all got down on the ground over there and it just wiped everything out,” said firefighter Don Lalonde.<br /><br />Mississippi, along with Alabama, was hardest hit.<br /><br />The cheap, prefabricated housing common in many parts of the South offered no protection from the tornadoes and strong winds.<br /><br />Thousands of people have been forced from their homes. Tens of thousands were left without power, but at least their homes were still standing.<br /><br />The next wave of storms threatens millions in populated areas – in parts of the South already devastated, and in several more states far to the northeast as far as Pennsylvania and Ohio.
