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Neighbor tried to help save baby after deadly Texas twister
“A cold front passed through North Texas on December 26, where it entered a region of very warm and moist air, triggering the development of severe thunderstorms, including isolated tornadoes”, Scott Stransky, manager and principal scientist at AIR Worldwide in Boston, said in a release.
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Stephanie Naylor, left, and her husband Rich, both of Jacksonville, Fla., load luggage in their vehicle after their flight was canceled Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, at the Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, Iowa.
In Garland, Terri Sykora and her partner, Ronnell Lincoln, were among families of an apartment complex granted access to their homes Monday for the first time since the storm hit the complex.
She and nine others were enjoying a holiday gathering when winds began to rattle her home in the Dallas suburb. They all dashed into closets and suffered only bumps and bruises, but Gordon’s roof was torn away and her house destroyed.
Petra Porras’s family said she was on her way home on I-30 when the tornado hit her SUV.
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. A local church has offered to house the family as they recover. “But we’re feeding them, we’re sheltering them, we’re providing health services”, she said.
The country’s midsection was seeing a range of precipitation, including heavy snow, ice and blustery winds in parts of several states and heavy rain in already-waterlogged parts of Missouri and Arkansas. A typical day has about 150 cancellations and 4,000 delays.
Highways turned icy and treacherous in New Mexico, while Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency after blizzard conditions affected parts of the state and heavy rains fell.
Officials in Arkansas said a 31-year-old man died in a storm-related drowning. The snowstorm caused Governor Susana Martinez to declare a state of emergency.
The Mississippi River neared a potential record crest, having been already high from an unusual amount of late-fall rain even before torrential downpours began Saturday.
Damage assessment teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state on Wednesday will review tornado and storm damage to homes, businesses and public infrastructure in Dallas County.
Two other people in Pulaski County also drowned when their vehicle drove onto a flooded road and was also swept several hundred yards away, authorities said.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made disaster declarations Sunday for four counties including Dallas and warned that the number of victims could rise.
The National Weather Service said more than 20 states-from Texas to as far north and east as Maine-were under a weather watch or warning.
Six tornadoes were reported in Texas and one in Oklahoma on Saturday, the National Weather Service said. According to Lieutenant Pedro Barineau, eight people were killed and 15 were injured while more than 600 businesses and homes were damaged.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, with this scale of destruction”, Garland police chief Mitch Bates said.
Three other people died in Collin County, about 45 miles northeast of Dallas, according to sheriff’s deputy Chris Havey, although the circumstances were not immediately clear. Interstate 40, the main east-west highway across the Panhandle, was nearly completely shut down.
Vito Randazzo of California said he sat on I-10 for about 13 hours and that people were sleeping in their cars. “Everybody’s just sleeping in their cars”, said Randazzo. “I ask New Mexicans to please stay off the roads until the conditions improve”.
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“In some areas, the adjusters haven’t been able to get in to the neighborhoods yet”, Hanna said Monday morning.