Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a disaster declaration for 16 counties where severe storms and tornadoes swept through Monday, tearing open schools and leveling...
Two tornadoes rated EF0 — the lowest rating — touched down: one in northern Carrollton and one near Decatur in Wise County. A twister with unknown wind speeds hit rural southern Bell County.
The governor’s emergency declaration was issued for Bastrop, Cass, Cooke, Grayson, Guadalupe, Houston, Jack, Madison, Marion, Montague, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Upshur, Williamson and Wise counties.Standing outside the elementary school Tuesday morning, Jacksboro police Chief Scott Haynes recalled wading through inches of water to reach the hallways where students, parents and faculty were sheltering.
“By the mere hand of God, our community was protected,” Jack County Judge Brian Keith Umphress said at a news conference early Tuesday. About 80 homes were destroyed, Abbott said.Bowie city manager Bert Cunningham said as many as four people were trapped in collapsed buildings,. Emergency manager Kelly McNabb told the TV station four people suffered minor injuries.
Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to more than two dozen traffic accidents between 6 and 9 p.m. Monday, spokesman Jason Evans said. Crews were also called to three reports of downed utility wires or transformers and to Montfort Drive and the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in North Dallas after multiple vehicles drove into high water, Evans said.that part of the roof was mangled at Hardeman Elementary School in Watauga and water leaked into six classrooms.
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