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Eight dead after Saturday night North Texas tornado outbreak
“I grabbed both dogs by the collars and held on to the toilet”.
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Jason Strunk, the football coach at Lubbock High School, said he was checking his home’s pipes and laying out cat litter for traction on his sidewalk and driveway, just as he learned growing up and living in colder climates further north. Strunk’s major concern was unprepared drivers going out on wet, icy roads.
Homes in the neighborhood that had been searched by emergency responders were marked with a black “X”. In some instances, it looked as though homes had been picked up and set back down in a big pile. State troopers blocked off roads, utility crews restored power and people walked around, hushed and dazed. The twister struck the city of Garland, killing eight people and hurling vehicles off highways.
Many in Texas associate tornadoes with spring weather, and nearly 63 percent of tornadoes hit the state in April, May and June, according to the Texas Almanac.
As of late Sunday morning, people in some parts of New Mexico had already seen more than 16 inches of snow fall with drifts as high as 8 feet, making roads impassable in several counties, according to the governor’s office. At least three people who died were found in vehicles, said Barineau, who also noted that some cars appeared to be thrown from the interstate, though it wasn’t known whether that was how the people found in the vehicles died.
The National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth determined yesterday that the destruction left behind in hard-hit Garland was the work of an EF-4 tornado, which typically has wind gusts of between 166 and 200 miles per hour.
Power was out throughout much of the city Saturday night, Rowlett Mayor Todd Gottel said.
People run as weather sirens sound as a severe storm passes over downtown Dallas, Dec. 26, 2015.
Church members scrambled on Sunday to collect cleaning supplies to help those affected by the storms, which wreaked havoc along a 20-mile (65-kilometer) stretch from the south of Dallas to the city of Garland in the north.
Almost all of Interstate 40 in Texas, the main east-west highway through the state’s Panhandle, has been shut because of a snowstorm pummeling the area.
“By Sunday morning, the snow, sleet and freezing rain will expand northeast across the southern Plains”, the National Weather Service said.
At least three people who died were found in vehicles, Barineau said, though it’s unclear if they were among the four involved in traffic accidents. They include six people whose cars were swept away by rising waters on rural roads Saturday night, Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said.
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.
Initial analysis from the National Weather Service showed the Texas storm system produced six tornadoes, which were notable for their intensity during this time of year.
Ranager Tyler and his son waded into flood water Christmas night and used rope to pull an 11-year-old boy out after his family’s auto was swept away near Pinson, about 15 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Record rainfalls have led to flooding in parts of the southeastern US, though areas hit hardest since Wednesday were due for some relief Sunday.
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As several inches of snow fell in the Borderland, driving conditions became hazardous and many businesses and services are closed for the weekend, CBS affiliate KDBC in El Paso reports.