The storm is over but the flooding is nowhere near ready to subside.
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In snow-loving Vermont, Chassidy Byrd, the assistant manager at a gas station and convenience store in Plainfield, said the storm returned the state to a sense of normal.
West Alton, about 20 miles north of St. Louis, has about 520 residents.
It was the latest of a succession of powerful weather events across the country, from heavy snow in New Mexico, west Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle to flooding in parts of the Plains and Midwest. 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. The National Weather Service said it was the second deadliest the DFW area has ever seen. Although the weather was expected to fade, more flooding was expected along the swollen Mississippi River on Tuesday. The agency also said that the damage left behind in nearby Rowlett was from a tornado that was at least EF-3, which have gusts of between 136 and 165 miles per hour. Russell Rost, an emergency management official, said that the town has been cut in half by floodwater.
Severe flooding can cause trouble for weeks to come, CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.
“This is a huge impact on our community and we’re all suffering”, he said. In Texas, a minimum of 11 people were killed in the Dallas region over the weekend. The names and nationalities of the four soldiers have not been released. Greene County authorities said two fatalities there were associated with the flooding. Heavy rain sent the Trinity River over its banks turning roads to streams.
In Texas, a powerful line of weekend storms that spawned multiple tornadoes, destroyed several hundred homes and displaced residents throughout the Dallas suburbs. The low was expected to be 36 degrees Wednesday morning.
Three other deaths were reported in the Dallas metro area, the nation’s fourth most populous, with about 7 million people.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a statement Sunday night that as many as 600 homes were damaged in Rowlett.
“The fact that people survived it, it’s awesome”, Garland police lieutenant Pedro Barineau said.
Five of the deaths in Garland were believed to have been related to vehicles having been struck by a tornado near State Highway 190 and Interstate 30. “We offer our condolences to the family and friends of all the victims of the tornadoes on December 26”, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook. “And we’re able to eat and stay somewhere warm with a friend”.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings Sunday afternoon for a handful of counties in northeastern Texas, southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
“But cold air/wet surfaces still mean icy spots on roads & walkways”.
Parts of New Mexico experienced as much as 16 inches of snowfall, with drifts of 8 feet, late Sunday morning.
Prater says along with monetary donations there is a need for volunteers to go into neighborhoods and help with the clean-up efforts. The twister hit the city of Garland, killing eight people and blowing vehicles off highways.
The Kansas native said he knows a thing or two about tornadoes and when the storm approached he knew he had to find a safe place for his family.
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Still, Clay says this is a far cry from El Niño cycles of the past.
