Severe weather including tornadoes kills 18 in Georgia and Mississippi

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/severe-weather-kills-11-southern-georgia

This article is about a tornado that devastatingly killed 18 people in Georgia, what struck me the most about this article is that the guardian article was one of the only ways I found out, I would be surprised that such an event as a tornado would not be talked about as much, it makes me think of the previous American hurricanes that have devasted parts of America, there was a ridiculous amount of coverage on them during the time that they happened, but this tornado doesn't seem to be too important, this could be due to the greater impact previous disasters have had on infrastructure and damaged homes, which was considered more important than the amount of deaths, it's an unusual situation that the buildings could potentially be seen as more important