Television footage and pictures posted on social media showed homes flattened across the affected states, with possessions and Christmas presents strewn on the ground or left in a messy heap.
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“Santa brought us a good one, didn’t he?” said Bobby Watkins in rural Benton County, Mississippi.
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Van Rayford, who’s now in a hotel with his kids and six of his grandchildren, says he’s thankful the Swanns and others sacrificed their Christmas so that his family could have one.
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Flood warnings and advisories remained in effect Saturday in parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and other areas in the southeast.
The biggest threat for tornadoes was in a region of 3.7 million people in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky, according to the national Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma.
Among the dead were eight people from MS, including a 7-year-old boy who perished while riding in a vehicle that was swept up and tossed by storm winds.
In the neighboring state of Arkansas, an 18-year-old female died and an 18-month-old toddler was injured on Wednesday morning as a large tree that was uprooted by high winds and heavy rain fell on their house.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn told the Associated Press that dozens of injuries occurred. Seven Mississippians have been lost in this storm.
Emergency declarations were issued in MS and Tennessee, the two states hardest hit by severe weather on Wednesday that also complicated getaway plans for travellers looking to make the most of the long holiday weekend. In addition, seven people were killed in MS and one died in Arkansas.
Search teams combed damaged homes and businesses for people still missing, including at least one man in hard-hit Benton County.
Authorities are unsure how the accident occurred, but TEMA said the deaths are weather related. The rushing water separated the family as they got out of the auto, he said, but the boy was later reunited with his family.
Cold and snow were forecast on Christmas Day for much of the US West, including temperatures in the teens in Montana and snow likely in Washington, Oregon, northern California and Nevada.
Storms extending from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast caused hundreds of flight delays for travelers trying to get home for Christmas. “And as the debris started hitting us, he just covered me, and within a minute it was all over and there was destruction all around us and we were fine”.
The Red Cross said it was setting up shelters for people whose homes were damaged by the storm.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Thursday mourned the loss of seven people killed in tornadoes in his and in other USA southern states.
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In the town of Rowlett near Garland, City Manager Brian Funderburk said Sunday morning that 23 people were injured, though the extent of their injuries weren’t known, but that there were no deaths and no reports of missing people.
