Read more on the violent weather tearing up the South here. Slideshow here.

Bernard Troncale / The Birmingham News via AP
Sandra Smith, left, is hugged by a neighbor in Moody, Ala., Wednesday, April 27, 2011 after a tree fell into her mobile home bedroom and missed crushing her by just a few inches. Smith was asleep when the tree fell and was not injured. Violent weather passed over much of Alabama early Wednesday.