The full extent of damage along a almost 40-mile stretch near Dallas isn’t yet known, though there were reports of storms and tornadoes blowing the roofs off homes, mangling vehicles, damaging churches, downing power lines and toppling trees.
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Even before the power outages, many Deroit-area homes are without basic utilities, including heat, due to shutoffs.
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At least 11 people were killed in the state over the weekend as tornadoes struck the heavily populated Dallas area.
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The governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, also declared state of emergency on Sunday, when the National Guard started the rescue of stranded drivers. According to the Weather Channel, that tornado was classified as an EF4, the second-strongest ranking on the scale used to measure tornado strength, with winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour.
“The fact that people survived it, it’s awesome”, Garland police lieutenant Pedro Barineau told CNN Monday. The weather service said damage indicated it was an EF-3 tornado, which has winds up to 165 miles per hour.
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. Bishop says the tornado outbreak at this time of the year for North Texas occurs “from time to time… but it’s certainly not something that happens regularly”.
An emergency vehicle drives through a neighborhood in Rowlett, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, the morning after it was struck by a tornado. Dallas experienced a high of 82 degrees on Saturday, while on Sunday it dropped down to 41 degrees. Blizzard warnings are also in effect in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and into western Oklahoma. Snow will develop Monday night across much of New England and parts of northern and eastern NY, forecasters said.
That snow will eventually work its way down to Dallas, blanketing and freezing over communities in the middle of tornado clean-up. Amid frigid weather, she searched for old family photographs – especially of her father, who died two years ago.
Abbott urged Texans to remain vigilant to perilous conditions north of I-10, including the threat of rising waters.
In Oklahoma, crews were busy treating highways and bridges with salt and sand, according to Oklahoma’s Department of Energy Management. Scores of people were injured in the region and officials estimated some 800 homes may have been damaged.
Hundreds of people in Texas were struggling to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by rare but extremely powerful December twisters as residents of Alabama and Florida were warned they could be next.
Tornado watches and warnings have been issued for parts of Texas as well as Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Lightning illuminates a house after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Alabama, damaging several houses, on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Alabama. The Associated Press reports that five people drowned in southern IL when their vehicle was swept away by the fast-moving East Fork Creek near the town of Patoka Saturday evening. “The poor little girl didn’t make it”.
In Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon said there had been eight flood-related fatalities and where he declared a state of emergency, residents were told to expect the same patchwork of potentially devastating weather: flooding and heavy rain were anticipated in the central and southern sections of the state, while in the north they could expect snow and freezing rain.
Eight people died over the weekend in Missouri, including four worldwide soldiers stationed at Fort Leonard for training.
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Authorities in Georgia on Monday confirmed one man had died when his auto was swept away by floodwaters, several United States media outlets reported.
