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All that remained standing Sunday afternoon was the master bedroom and parts of the kitchen. “It’s a horrible tragedy,” Bullard said. “But all this stuff can be replaced. We can’t replace each other. We’re extremely lucky.”

Bullard said she awoke before dawn Sunday to the sound of hail pounding the roof. When she went outside her bedroom door, she was knocked down by a collapsing wall in the hallway.

She managed to get up and found her father calling for her, trapped under a pile of debris. She pulled him free, and they found her mother in the master bedroom. They escaped by climbing over piles of furniture and debris where the wall to their home office once stood.

President Trump said Sunday he had spoken with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and “expressed our sincere condolences for the lives taken.”

“Tornadoes were vicious and powerful and strong, and they suffered greatly,” Trump said during a White House ceremony where he was swearing in aides. “So we’ll be helping out the state of Georgia.”

Several homes appeared to have been destroyed along a road within about 2 miles of the mobile home park, with cinder blocks scattered on the ground, and pine trees uprooted and snapped in half.

The tops of broken utility poles lay alongside the road. The South Georgia Motorsports Park in Cecil was heavy damaged, with a grandstand ripped apart.

Georgia’s governor declared a state of emergency in seven southern counties.