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Tornadoesmoving through Texas have left at least four people injured and multiple properties and homes damaged.
The storms, which hit both Texas and Oklahoma on Monday, hit areas outside of Austin including Round Rock and Elgin,The Associated Pressreported. A separate tornado also ripped through Kingston in southern Oklahoma.
Jacksboro, a town outside of Fort Worth, saw severe damage to its elementary and high schools after the storms. Officials said between 60 and 80 homes in Jack County, where Jacksboro is located, were “demolished,” perCNN.
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“We’re just very blessed to have facilities that were designed to sustain a storm, the storm damage that we received,” Jacksboro Independent School District Superintendent Brad Burnett toldCNN affiliate WFAA. “I just know our students were safe in our facilities, and I’m thankful for that.”
“I’ve been a part of emergency services for 24 years here, I’ve never seen anything nowhere near this magnitude here,” he said, per CNN. “Nothing like this, not even anywhere else in this county.”
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Elsewhere in the Lone Star State, winds from the tornadoes flipped over an 18-wheeler truck in Austin,The New York Timesreported. In Elgin, a town outside of Austin, winds threw a mobile home on top of a building.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the storm damage during a Monday news conference in Williamson County.
“We know there are many people whose lives have been completely disrupted and people who’ve lost their homes,” he said, per the AP. “At the very same time… it may be a miracle also, because even though there’s been some devastating physical damage, to my knowledge, as of right now, there is no report of loss of life, which is just stunning.”
After moving through Texas and Oklahoma, the storms are expected to also hit Louisiana and Mississippi Tuesday, according to the AP. As temperatures rise, the storms are expected to worsen throughout Tuesday, possibly bringing tornadoes with hail and high winds.
“We’re still a bit uncertain on just how intense and how longer-lived some of these tornadoes may be, so we’re going to be just below that threshold of the greatest risk,” Jeremy Grams, lead forecaster with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said Tuesday, per the AP.
source: people.com
