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Among the victims this weekend was Petra Ruiz, whose SUV was swept from an overpass, her husband, Ruben Porras, told the Dallas Morning News.
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Bob Moore walks through his home in Rowlett, Texas on December 27, 2015, the morning after it was struck by a tornado. At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused substantial damage.
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As cleanup is underway across North Texas, the identities of those killed by tornadoes Saturday night have been released.
“Please baby please baby be okay baby and i was holding her little finger.” was what a local resident said as she tried to aid the injured infant. At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in apparently strong tornadoes that swept through…
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Porras’s family said she was on her way home on I-30 when the tornado hit her SUV. Pastor Kevin Taylor was in the church during the storm, but got out and is safe, he said in a Facebook message.
With rain all day Sunday keeping people away, residents worked on a dreary and frigid Monday to salvage what they could, with the American Red Cross distributing items like tarps, rakes and work gloves to help them.
At least 43 people were killed across seven states since Wednesday following days of severe weather, including flash floods in IL and tornadoes in Texas.
Heavy snow, ice and blustery winds are pounding the country’s midsection, and heavy rain has hit already-waterlogged areas.
The system caused almost 900 flights to be canceled – more than a third of which were at Chicago’s two main airports – and 500 to be delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. A typical day sees about 150 cancellations.
Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma declared a state of emergency as there were blizzard conditions and an ice storm warning out west and flood warnings in the east, where one community had received 9in of rain.
Over the weekend, six people died when two separate vehicles drove into flooded roadways in south-central Missouri, Pulaski County Sheriff Ronald Long said; four of them were global soldiers who were temporarily stationed at an Army base. The body of a 36-year-old man who tried to cross a creek in his pickup near the town of Arpelar was also recovered Monday afternoon, the patrol said. Officials say there were reports of looting late Saturday.
In Missouri, Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency on Sunday, saying continued rains would make already widespread flooding conditions worse.
In the Southeast, two more deaths linked to weather were reported Saturday in MS, bringing that state’s death toll from severe weather over Christmas to 10. In northern Texas, where local officials estimated as many as 1,450 homes were damaged or destroyed.
Hardest-hit was the Dallas suburb of Garland, where authorities confirmed eight fatalities after a tornado packing winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour bore down on the city.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, with this scale of destruction”, Police Chief Mitch Bates told media. The extent of the injuries are not known, and officials said there are no reports of missing people. She said Santillano asked her to take the girl to the hospital, and she headed out with another neighbor. “Be OK, baby. Be OK, ‘” King recalled.
That snow will eventually work its way down to Dallas, blanketing and freezing over communities in the middle of tornado clean-up. “But to take the baby, too, that’s wrong”.
The heaviest snow, over a foot (30 cm), was expected in southwestern Wisconsin across and southeastern Minnesota, Leseney said.
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The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning until 9 a.m. Monday for the Panhandle and several counties in New Mexico. The garage wall had collapsed and the roof fell in.
