“Move to higher ground if you hear of flood warnings.” Neighbors clean up after a tornado heavily damaged several homes in Round Rock, Texas. “Repeated bouts of heavy rainfall can occur over the same areas, increasing the risk for flooding,” the statement said. In a joint statement, the agencies said floods might cause the most damage.
More than 8,000 households live in such temporary quarters, Bob Howard, spokesman for a joint information center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said Monday. Louisiana’s federal and state authorities reminded thousands of hurricane survivors living in government-provided mobile homes and recreational vehicle trailers to have an evacuation plan because the structures might not withstand the expected weather. The affected areas, including the cities of Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi, could see strong tornadoes, forecasters said. Giant Christmas baubles tumble down the street in terrifying sceneĭivers remove sixth set of human remains from dwindling Lake MeadĭALLAS - A storm system that left widespread damage and some injuries in its wake in Texas drifted into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Tuesday, possibly triggering “a regional severe weather outbreak,” the Storm Prediction Center said. Hurricane Lisa makes landfall along Central America coast as a Category 1 storm
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However, she posted to her Facebook page after Saturday’s storm to show more of the damage and to ask people for prayers.Google is launching a free life-saving feature for iPhone and Android Outside of the bathroom that kept the whole family safe is where the two walls remain.ĭarnell-Whitmore didn’t immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment. “The roof just come off and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh I can’t make it,’ so I hid in the bathroom with everyone else and it was all of us piled up in this small bathroom.” “I slammed this door shut when I saw that truck coming, I saw the wind moving it,” she said of a neighbor’s vehicle.
When the weather started picking up, she called everyone inside and quickly looked for a place to hide. Right before the tornado hit, Darnell-Whitmore was sitting on the home’s front porch with a friend, while her children were collecting hailstones from the storm outside. “There’s another wall that she has stickers on it that say ‘Faith and Hope’ with first Corinthians 13:13 verse on there.” This is pretty much the only wall still standing,” Darnell-Whitmore said. Amongst the destruction, however, are two fully intact walls that are bringing the family some peace. And although city officials have reported that there were no fatalities, the community has still taken a big hit.Ĭrystle Darnell-Whitmore took KBTX through the neighborhood that she grew up in, including the debris that now stands in place of her childhood home. The Darnell family home, in the town of Franklin, was one of many demolished when a tornado tore through the area on Saturday. Some family members in Texas are counting their blessings after a tornado destroyed most of their home - except for a wall of crosses. Family home destroyed in Texas tornado, except for a wall of crosses.
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