Mobile, Alabama (AP) - a huge storm system dump of snow and freeze for the country's central and launch devastating tornado south deep drawing to the northeast way to start last Wednesday, slow holiday tourism.
After Christmas flight and passenger support raft weather alert driver, after a day, rare winter two-part allegorical sayings damaged buildings in Louisiana and Alabama.
Snow covered road, in southern Illinois and southern indiana earlier on Wednesday. Officials urged residents to stay at home, if they can. State police in indiana on interstate 64 about 30 miles per hour gust many sliding accidents in evansville, indiana, region and white conditions.
Led storm system from the gulf coast of New England has killed three people, several people were injured, but no one was killed on the spot in a tornado. The storm also left more than 100000 unpowered time across the south, the dim and Christmas celebration.
Strong thunderstorm YuCeKa Carolina blizzard and winter storm warning tensile and do the Ohio river from Arkansas to New York and Maine.
In Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama 35 a tornado Tuesday outbreak, the national weather service said.
Rick cowley family at Christmas the relative to the moving tornado sirens. Don't take any chance, he and his wife, the dining, block down the crowds on the field house in mobile mobile murphy high school temporary avoid.
In fact, this is not the first place.
"Fortunately, this is a tornado," said coyle. "Pressure drop and ears began suddenly appeared, it's the second crazy." They are all very good, although the school was damaged, a church and a few home, but officials said no one was badly hurt.
Camera caught big funnel cloud method.
Mobile is the biggest city, has attracted many two-part allegorical sayings. As cruel, linear wind, storm knocked down millions of trees, from the roof of the house of blasting close in the dark, left many Christmas celebration. Heavy rain drenched the region a few place see flash flood.
Across the United States more than 325 class aircraft were canceled, Wednesday morning, according to FlightAware.com in flight tracking. Reservations cancelled, mostly lay around the airport has been or will soon be on the path of the storm.
In the national holiday passengers much colder abdominal operations treacherous driving conditions freezing rain and blizzard conditions the same fast moving storm. In Arkansas, highway department officials say, the snow in the Christmas day, many passengers are already in their destination is lucky.
At the same time, Texas, deal with high winds and flat road.
On Tuesday, the wind tree collapse to a car pickup in Houston area, killing the driver, the tree fell, his house and a 53-year-old north Louisiana men died. Icy roads have been blamed for 21 vehicle accumulation in Oklahoma highway patrol said, a and year old woman, in an accident, in the snow near the highway.
In the southern state of Mississippi and Louisiana several community, the tree fell in the families and the whole road. Mississippi governor phil Bryant declared a state of emergency, he said eight county reported damage and some injuries.
It includes macnair, one of the possible tornado destroyed a dozen, and send out eight people to the hospital, no life-threatening injuries, the pearl river county emergency management agency director Danny manley said.
Snowstorm caused many accidents launch, Oklahoma, Arkansas on Tuesday night with the northeast, including 10 inches of snow, is expected to parts of the storm warning. Freezing rain insist in Arkansas and wind gust of wind can reach 30 miles whipped around their trees and public facilities line, cause about 71000 customers lost a period of power.
Christmas lights were also eliminated the power of no more than 100000 customers' time at least in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi, Alabama.
Is blizzard conditions is possible part, Illinois, indiana and Kentucky to Cleveland forecast a few inches to a foot of snow. At the end of the week, that snow is expected to once again into the northeast to the prediction of feet
Jason gus (Gerth) said, through the movement of a tornado moment, from his porch, he saw transformer spontaneous detonation of a distance of about one and a half dozen green flicker. His home is difficult to escape by luck.
"Miss our 100 feet long, we have damaged," gus (Gerth) said.
In Louisiana, hail the size of a quarter reported Tuesday morning in the west of the state and WDSU audience television seems to be a spout in New Orleans, says Mr Just around the lake causeway bay send photos. Any breakdown or damage report.
Arkansas Ozark mountains of some of the most mountainous area can get ten inches of snow, this will make tourism "very dangerous or impossible" northern state of layer from nearby whiteout conditions, weather bureau said.
The holiday can imagine a vision of snow and ice, but playing at this time of year is not unheard of things. In the past fifty years has produced 10 storm system at least one Christmas tornado wind in the south 113 miles or more, in Washington, the national weather service spokesman Chris tile carol said, through the email.
The most deadly storm dec. 24-26, 1982, 29 when a tornado in Oklahoma and Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi killed three people, 32 people were injured.
In the mobile, trinity church bishop on the roof of the lack of a long and parish wall front wall go, watchers Scott said, in parts of the city church midtown senior warden.
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