As residents of North Texas surveyed the destruction from deadly tornadoes, the same storm system brought winter storm woes to the Midwest on Monday, amplified flooding that’s already blamed for more than a dozen deaths and prompted hundreds of flight cancellations.
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In the USA state of Texas, at least eleven people were killed in the Dallas area over the weekend as floods and tornadoes flattened buildings and disrupted transport for millions. That, plus flooding in Missouri and IL, were the latest in a succession of severe weather events across the country in the last week that led to at least 45 deaths.
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Over 1,100 U.S. flights were canceled and another 1,650 were delayed Monday morning, according to tracking service FlightAware.
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In Garland, Terri Sykora and her partner, Ronnell Lincoln, were among families of an apartment complex granted access to their homes Monday for the first time since the storm hit the complex. She and nine others were enjoying a holiday gathering when winds began to rattle the home. “Her little hand was cold…I kept saying please baby, please baby be okay I did the best I could but now begin to think it wasn’t enough it’s just haunting”, King said.
With rain all day on Sunday keeping people away, Garland residents worked on a dreary and frigid Monday to salvage what they could, with the American Red Cross distributing items like tarpaulins, rakes and work gloves to help them.
“Streams turn into rivers, and people sometimes don’t see the road has flooded over when they are driving at night”, Long said.
Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency due to widespread flooding around the state that has caused at least 10 deaths and closed many roads. Mr Nixon says the state’s death toll from days of pounding rainfall had risen to 10, and he expected that number to grow.
Residents in and around the small St. Louis-area town of West Alton were evacuating as the Mississippi River nears a potential record crest.
In Mississippi, where Governor Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency to deal with flooding, “severe storms” were forecast through Monday, the Emergency Management Agency said.
A man and a 5-year-old were killed in Coffee County when their vehicle was swept away by flood waters on Christmas Day as they tried to cross a bridge.
More than 600 structures in North Texas suffered damage from the tornadoes and storms, officials said.
A very preliminary count indicated 11 tornadoes hit the Dallas area Saturday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
“This is a huge impact on our community and we’re all suffering”, Lt. Barineau said of Garland, a suburb about 30 kilometres northeast of Dallas.
I-40 is the main east-west highway through the state’s Panhandle.
US President Barack Obama called Texas Governor Greg Abbott to relay his “heartfelt condolences” over the lives lost, and to those who lost their homes, a White House official said.
More than 20 states were under a weather watch or warning. The tornado ripped the roof off and the walls were stripped down. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
New Mexico was also clearing snow from blizzards. The state already declared state of emergency as a outcome of blizzards that are affecting the western and central parts of the region.
“This is a dire situation, especially the eastern half of the state where the storm has hit hardest and continues to dump snow”, Martinez said in a statement.
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Other North Alabama totals include: Decatur at Pryor Field, 7.3 inches; Lawrence County at Bankhead National Forest, 8.24 inches; Ider in DeKalb County, 8.18 inches; and Blountsville in Blount County, 7.05 inches.
