Gloria Jones climbed out of a relative

In the tornado-torn rural stretches and cities of the South, the scope and size of a newly homeless population are beginning to sink in.

Shirley Baker, 54, lost her Tuscaloosa apartment in the storms and has moved in with her mother, but no one wants the situation to be long-term.

There are as yet no solid estimates of the number of people who need places to live, although it surely will be