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Picking up the pieces in Smith Station.... Volunteers tell me it’s bad in this area, but much worse a little farther south. @CharlesDanielWx @abc3340 pic.twitter.com/A6uRhQqbca

— Ashley Gooden (@AshleyGoodenTV) March 3, 2019

\"Debris is just everywhere,\" one Twitter user wrote. \"Parts to people's houses, random mattress in our driveway, trees down everywhere I can look, power lines down everywhere.\"

Residents Kevin and Becky Boyd they were in their trailer when the tornado hit, rolling the trailer over.

Becky Boyd described it as \"terrifying\" and the \"worst thing you could ever think of happening to you.\"

They feel lucky to have escaped alive, but Kevin Boyd told ABC News, \"We lost everything. One day you got everything, next day you ain't got nothing.\"

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PHOTO: Students, teachers and residents hold a prayer circle in the gymnasium of Beauregard High School for those in their community that lost their lives in a Sunday night tornado on Monday, March 4, 2019, in Beauregard, Ala.
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President Donald Trump said Monday, \"Our whole nation mourns for the more than 20 lives lost and for the heartbroken families they leave behind.\"

\"You look at the areas affected and probably nobody made it out of that path. That path was brutal,\" Trump said. \"To the community of Lee County we grieve by your side and we pledge our unwavering support to help you rebuild from the very depths of this horrible tragedy.\"

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PHOTO: A search and rescue team walk past damage from a tornado in Beauregard, Ala., March 4, 2019.
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\"I've directed FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] to provide immediate assistance to the great state of Alabama,\" he said.

An average of 80 people die annually from tornadoes in the U.S., although just 10 died in 2018, according to data from the National Weather Service.

ABC News' Steve Osunsami, Rachel Katz, Melissa Griffin, Max Golembo, Alex Mallin, Joshua Hoyos and Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.

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