Rain douses Rome, Southeast on Sunday

Things were deadly in South Georgia, where 14 died from reported twisters.

A storm system that rolled into the Southeast on Sunday dumped about 3 inches of rain on Rome and was blamed for at last 14 deaths across the state.

A 40 percent chance of showers in Floyd County today is expected to decrease as the day goes on.

Patchy fog is expected before 9 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

A high near 56 is predicted with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Floyd County saw several roads made impassable by temporary flash flooding late Sunday.

Georgia Power said about 530 scattered customers in Floyd County were without power around 10 p.m.

Things in South Georgia were more deadly.

“There are houses just demolished,” said Norma Ford, who rushed out with other relatives Sunday evening after hearing a reported twister had overturned her nephew’s mobile home in the southwestern Georgia city of

Albany, the region’s largest city with some 76,000 residents.

Three deaths were confirmed Sunday evening in Dougherty County where Albany is located, said Catherine Howden, spokeswoman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.

The deadliest toll came before daybreak Sunday when an apparent tornado blew through a mobile home park in south Georgia — about 60 miles southeast of Albany — shearing away siding, upending homes and killing seven people.

Coroner Tim Purvis of south Georgia’s Cook County confirmed that seven people died at the mobile home park, where about roughly half of the 40 homes were “leveled.”

The other deaths in Georgia were reported elsewhere.

Branden Camp / The Associated Press Jenny Bullard carries a pair of boots from her home that was damaged by a tornado Sunday in Adel. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Cook, that have suffered deaths, injuries and severe damage from...