Garland Police Lt. Pedro Barineau said Sunday morning that eight people have died and 15 were injured in Garland, which is about 20 miles northeast of Dallas.
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Lightning illuminates a house after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala.
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Christmas Eve also broke records, as Manhattan sat around 72 degrees; the record had previously been set at 63 degrees in 1996. The best day of the week looks to be Wednesday, as the weather service expects it to be sunny with a high of 45.
As the couple surveyed the damage Thursday, broken glass and mud covered most of their home’s interior. The storm blew the roofs off homes, mangled vehicles, damaged churches, downed power lines, toppled trees and caused natural gas lines to burst.
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The damage stretched over a 40-mile area from south of Dallas to north-east of the city.
In Birmingham, Alabama homes and businesses were destroyed by a tornado that tore through the city on Christmas Day, while some of the state has seen record-breaking rains since Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
The Alabama tornado is the latest development in an ongoing series of storms that has hammered the South during Christmas week. No other details of damage were immediately available.
The tornado did not remain on the ground constantly.
Meanwhile, two more deaths linked to weather were reported Saturday in MS, bringing that state’s death toll from severe weather over Christmas to 10. Warning sirens went off in the downtown area of Dallas.
Watch the live stream of CBS Dallas-Fort Worth storm coverage here.
The National Weather Service in Huntsville warned residents to avoid driving in areas where flooding was expected.
The tiny, flood-prone Alabama town was underwater in 1929, which led to the constructions of levees for protection. A Christmastime wave of severe weather continued Friday.
Ten people, including a 7-year-old boy, were killed in MS, six in Tennessee and one in Arkansas and Alabama each. Two people in one home were killed.
“Many parts of Alabama have experienced excessive rainfall and flooding is a major concern”.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Spokesman Greg Flynn said 56 injuries were reported.
Brown says while that height was much too for much comfort, so far the levees were holding.
According to ABC, more than 240 residential houses were damaged or destroyed in Mississippi. The Tennessee Emergency Administration Agency stated Sat.in that authorities have been monitoring areas for potential flooding. Security at other areas, such as the NorthPark Center, told people to shelter in place. Two of the seven people killed in MS were from the Holly Springs area.
Damage assessment teams from the National Weather Service spent the day investigating violent Christmas night weather in Central Alabama. High winds will drive wind chills as low as 10 below zero and cause low visibility due to blowing and drifting snow.
It’s the latest of a succession of freakish winter-weather events across the country that could include heavy snow and massive flooding Sunday from north Texas through eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, western Arkansas and parts of Missouri.
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You can find our earlier story on the extreme weather that has hit parts of the South and Midwest this week here. The flood warning is in place until Monday.
