The Midwest and the South of the U.S. faced severe storms, damaging winds, heavy rains and flash floods

Three people died due to severe storms accompanied by damaging winds, heavy rains and flash floods in parts of the Midwest and the South. The dead included a couple of two children in Michigan and Arkansas apart of a woman in Ohio. Loss of power led to cancellation of classes in many schools as well as problems to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Indiana and Michigan. One of the girls killed in the Michigan City was a 14-year-old who was electrocuted in the backyard of her home. She had come into contact with an electrical line knocked down by a thunderstorm. In the Detroit-area community of Warren, two boys were hospitalized. One of them touched a power line that was down. Moreover, in Arkansas, an 11-year-old boy lost his life after being swept into a storm drain during heavy rainfall. A woman who tried to help the child was also pulled from the drain and had to be moved to a hospital for treatment. 3 killed, including 2 children, after severe storms hit the Midwest and South.

The National Weather Service revealed that slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall to the area and caused localized flash floods. An official of the weather service in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said – “Those heavy rains, when they fell, a lot of them fell really quickly and in a short time." In Ohio, a woman lost her life after a tree fell on her behind her home in Toledo. At that time, a strong storm had passed through the area. Threw were widespread storms in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. High speed winds downed branches of trees and power lines at different locations. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after excessive rainfall added to the problems in one of the water-treatment plants. It caused to low water pressure through much of the capital city. Incidentally, a swollen Pearl River led to floods in Jackson. It happened after storms dumped heavy rain. The flooding in Mississippi was less severe than flooding that caused death and destruction recently in Kentucky. At the time, the floods left at least 39 dead and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions.

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Storm and tornado batter southern US just before Christmas – at least four dead

#tornado #mississippi #christmas Just two days before Christmas, the southern part of the United States Mississippi has been hit by a storm and it has left at least four persons dead apart from causing damages to homes and businesses and flipped cars apart from knocking out power to thousands of homes.
Obviously, Mother Nature has unleashed her anger at the way the world is turning a blind eye to the destruction of the environment and causing Planet Earth to lose its ecological balance.
Due to this storm in Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant has declared an emergency for two southeastern counties where officials say four people have reportedly died in the storms and several more were injured. The office of the Governor has revealed that thousands were without power in and around Columbia, which is about 80 miles southeast of Jackson.
As per the Jones County Emergency Management director, the deaths were of a man and woman who were killed inside a mobile home in the storm's path in Laurel. Moreover, about 50 miles southwest, Marion County coroner Norma Williamson has indicated that two people were killed in Columbia, one of them was in a trailer park, the other at a strip mall.
A large number of people were still trapped inside their homes and TV footage showed cars, including an ambulance, flipped over and a few businesses wrecked. Three highways leading into Columbia have been shut down due to downed trees, power lines and other debris. Travel plans will naturally go haywire.
The storms are moving toward Georgia, including Atlanta, and Florida and according to local media reports, a tornado touched down in Amite, Louisiana. It downed a number of power lines and trees and tore the roof off at least one home. Golf ball-sized hail fell in Enterprise, Mississippi, along with some pea-sized hail in the Bude area.