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mis, alabama, georgia, and south carolina. cbs mark strassmann is in hard-hit bryan county, georgia. reporter: look at ellabell, georgia, a landscape of ruin. on tuesday, a tornado, the furry of its winds makes this community unrecognizable today to residents like ashley drinkard. i ve been crying because i literally witnessed this neighborhood basically get destroyed. reporter: the 24-year-old nurse hunkered down in her shower when the tornado hit. you thought it was over? yeah, i absolutely did, just because, like, i m upstairs. it was, like, literally right come you three here, and i could see it. it s going to come back at us! reporter: residents of four states shared a terrifying tuesday. look at it. reporter: several dozen tornadoes carved swaths of records across the south. georgia alone had more than a