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US: At least 15 dead after severe weather creates ruins across southern states
Updated On: 27 May, 2024 01:51 PM IST | Valley View (Texas) | mid-day online correspondent
"A firefighter came to check on us and he said, You`re very lucky,`" Parra said. "The best way to describe this is the wind tried to rip us out of the bathrooms"
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Damage is seen at a truck stop the morning after a tornado rolled through in Valley View, Texas. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where drivers took shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. Pic/AP, PTI
Intense storms that devastated homes and a truck stop where many people took refuge in the lavatory during the most recent catastrophic weather to hit the central US left at least fifteen dead and a vast path of ruin throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Sunday. The area from north of Dallas to the northwest corner of Arkansas saw the most damage from the storms, and later in the day, the system threatened to deliver more severe weather to other regions of the Midwest. Forecasters predicted that by Monday, the greatest risk would move eastward, affecting a large region of the nation that stretched from Alabama to the area of New York City.
Authorities in Cooke County, Texas, near the Oklahoma border, confirmed seven deaths after a tornado on Saturday night tore through a rural region close to a mobile home park. In Oklahoma, storms also caused house destruction and two fatalities; among the injured were guests at an outdoor wedding. Throughout the region, tens of thousands of people were without power. "It`s just a trail of debris left. The devastation is pretty severe," Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington told The Associated Press. The dead included two children, ages 2 and 5, the sheriff said. The Texas county includes the small community of Valley View, which was among the hardest-hit areas. Three family members were found dead in one home, Sappington said. Hugo Parra, who lives in Farmers Branch, north of Dallas, said he rode out the storm with 40 to 50 people in the bathroom of the truck stop near Valley View. The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot. "A firefighter came to check on us and he said, You`re very lucky,`" Parra said. "The best way to describe this is the wind tried to rip us out of the bathrooms."
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