In Texas, at least 11 people died due to extreme weather, including a temperature drop in the Dallas area from 82 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday to 30 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.
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Storm misery is spread across broad swath of country
Evacuations in Missouri are becoming increasingly urgent as levees have been overtopped in West Alton, just north of St. Founders of the Basehunters storm chasing team were able to capture a rare massive night time tornado chase on video .
Two Republican presidential candidates, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and US Senator Marco Rubio, had to cancel their election campaign in Iowa because of the disturbing weather. A local police official said that the tornado damaged about 600 family homes.
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The damage in nearby Rowlett was from an EF-3 tornado, which has typical gusts of between 136 and 165 miles per hour. Days of tumultuous weather have led to 43 deaths overall – those in Texas, plus five in IL, eight in Missouri and 19 in the Southeast. CNN affilate KTVT said they included two deaths in Copeville, where the National Weather Service confirmed an EF-2 tornado, and the death of an infant in Blue Ridge.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made disaster declarations Sunday for four counties including Dallas and warned that the number of victims could rise. That being said, the National Weather Service declared that an abundance of weather impacts are expected to occur in the Midwest and Plains.
“A variety of risky weather conditions will continue across the middle of the country through Sunday”, it said. The affected areas could receive more than eight inches of snow, the agency said, with possible snowdrifts higher than six feet.
Traffic was at an hours-long standstill in West Texas were Interstate 10 splits into Interstate 20 on Monday, and Vito Randazzo of California had been sitting on I-10 since 8 p.m. Sunday.
With treacherous travel conditions, many who did not have to take to the roads or the skies counted their good fortune. Nixon declared a state of emergency, saying continued rains would make already widespread flooding conditions worse. He added that the roadway was snow-packed and icy.
In Oklahoma, crews were busy treating highways and bridges with salt and sand, according to Oklahoma’s Department of Energy Management. According to official reports, more than 50 people have been injured.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for southern and eastern parts of Missouri, including St. Louis, and a small section of northern Arkansas.
Kistner said the storm that’s chilling the Northeast is linked to the same system that produced deadly tornadoes in the Midwest beginning Saturday, then brought heavy snow, ice, rain, flooding and blustery winds as it moved toward the Great Lakes.
The city’s mayor has issued a state of disaster for the next week. Tornado watches were in effect for much of Louisiana and Arkansas.
Over the weekend, 13 people died in floods In Missouri and IL.
“The little boy was hanging on to the back of the auto”, Tyler said Saturday. With the recent heavy rains, that trickle grew into several feet of swiftly moving water.
A state of emergency was declared in New Mexico, Texas and Missouri, as well as in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
In southern IL, authorities said three adults and two children drowned Saturday when the vehicle they were riding in was swept away and sank in a rain-swollen creek.
Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida panhandle were expected to bear the brunt of the of the day’s strongest storms, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Michael Leseney said.
Interstate 40, the main east-west highway across the Panhandle, reopened Monday morning.
Several bridges in southeastern Missouri counties also are closed because of flooding. Both airlines are based in Dallas.
The family’s auto was overcome with flood water and ended up in a ditch near Tyler’s Pinson home. The storm that struck the Dallas area on December 26th was rare in strength.
“Everything happened in seconds” said a Garland resident as he viewed the destruction.
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“All I heard was the roaring of the tornado, and my mom told us to get in the bathroom”, McMillian said. “People going up and down the streets, checking, ‘everybody OK in your house?’ Everybody’s checking houses”.
