The second-generation HomePod will be available for $429 on Apple's online store in Singapore, while the HomePod mini is priced at $139.Īpple had discontinued the full-size HomePod in 2021, but the company introduced a second-generation model in January. Tornadoes continued spawning and touching down in the area into the night.Apple today announced that the second-generation HomePod and the HomePod mini will be available to order in Singapore starting Thursday, March 30, with deliveries to customers and in-store availability set to begin Friday, April 6. “Wynne is so demolished … There’s houses destroyed, trees down on streets.” “I’m in a panic trying to get home, but we can’t get home,” she said. The mayor, Frank Scott Jr, who announced that he was requesting assistance from the national guard, tweeted in the evening that property damage was extensive and “we are still responding”. It then crossed the Arkansas river into northern Little Rock and surrounding cities, where widespread damage was reported to homes, businesses and vehicles.īaptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock officials told KATV in the afternoon that 21 people had checked in there with tornado-caused injuries, including five in critical condition. The Little Rock tornado tore first through neighbourhoods in the western part of the city and shredded a small shopping centre. The president had promised the government would help the area recover. The destructive weather came as Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi one week ago. In Oklahoma City, people were urged to evacuate their homes and troopers shut down portions of Interstate 35. There were more confirmed twisters in Iowa and grass fires blazed in Oklahoma, where wind gusts of up to 60mph were recorded. The town’s police chief, Shane Woody, described the scene after the collapse as “chaos, absolute chaos”. He said first responders also rescued someone from an elevator and had to grapple with downed power lines outside the theatre. The Belvidere fire department chief, Shawn Schadle, said 260 people were in the venue at the time. Late Friday in the town of Belvidere, about 70 miles (113km) north-west of Chicago, one person was killed and were 40 hurt, including two with life-threatening injuries, after the roof of the Apollo Theatre collapsed during a tornado there. Photograph: Jessica Bahena Hernandez/Reuters People sift through debris after the roof of the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Illinois, collapsed. Meteorologists said conditions on Friday were similar to those a week ago that unleashed the devastating twister that killed at least 21 people and damaged about 2,000 homes in Mississippi. In Illinois, almost the entire Chicago area was under some type of severe weather warning or watch on Friday night, hours after the National Weather Service warned of a “particularly dangerous situation” in the face of an unusually large outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground. In Mississippi’s Pontotoc county, one person died and four others were injured, according to the Mississippi emergency management agency. I’m sad for all the people who lost their homes.” “I’m sad that my town has been hit so hard,” said Heidi Jenkins, a salon owner. The debris consisted of clothing, insulation, roofing paper, toys, splintered furniture and a pickup truck with its windows shattered – scenes of devastation that are becoming more common as intense weather events become more frequent, probably due to climate change. The state’s governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that the town – about 50 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee – saw “widespread damage” from a tornado.Ĭity council member Lisa Powell Carter said Wynne was without power and roads were full of debris. One of the worst-hit areas was Arkansas, where four died in the small city of Wynne, as the storm destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris. The power outage figures, from the resource site, fluctuated throughout Saturday. Some of the latest deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 26, were confirmed in McNairy county, Tennessee. In Madison county, Alabama, one person died and five were injured overnight, officials said. Three of those who died in Indiana were in an area near Sullivan, a city that is about a 95-mile drive south-west of Indianapolis. The National Weather Service said that tornado was a high-end EF3 twister with wind speeds up to 165 mph (265 km/h) and a path as long as 25 miles (40 kms). Other deaths were reported in Alabama, Illinois and Mississippi, along with one near Little Rock, Arkansas, where the mayor said more than 2,000 buildings were in a tornado’s path. Nine weather-related deaths were reported in Tennessee county.
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