Residents are picking up the pieces after a series of storms slammed parts of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, leaving at least fourteen people dead amid torrential downpours, damaging winds and several tornadoes.<br />"My ears are still ringing," Tony Goodwin said Thursday as he recounted how he and seven family members ran for a homemade storm shelter right before a tornado hit Perry County, Tenn.<br />This small community in southern Middle Tennessee was one of the hardest hit Wednesday night when a wave of deadly tornadoes swept through the region.<br />The storm killed six people in Tennessee and tore through houses and businesses along a path that stretched across several counties.<br />Unseasonably warm weather Wednesday helped fuel twisters from Arkansas to Michigan.<br />The line of springlike storms continued east Thursday, dumping heavy rains that flooded roads and caused a mudslide in Georgia.
