(CNN) -- Virginia and North Carolina emergency and clean up crews on Monday continued their work assisting the displaced, restoring power to hundreds of thousands of customers and confirming the storm-related deaths of dozens of people.
The total number of people reported killed during a wave of severe storms across the South now stands at 45. That includes six victims in Virginia and 22 in North Carolina, according to emergency management agencies in both states.
Photo gallery: Damage from tornado outbreak
States of emergency have been declared in both Virginia and North Carolina.
In Waynesboro, Virginia, rescue crews on Sunday recovered the body of 8-year-old Lacy Elizabeth Taylor more than a half mile away from the bridge where she and two companions were caught in a flash flood the previous day.
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