The severe climate threatened with more than 45 million Americans on Easter Sunday, since a treacherous storm chain continued to attack parts of the United States south and a half west, causing floods and, in times, in the east of Iowa and Illinois toestial. In Oklahoma, people prepared for more rain after a flood became mortal at the beginning of the weekend.
Two people, including a child, died on Saturday night due to floods in Moore, Oklahoma, which is a suburb on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, police said. The adult woman and the 12 -year -old were inside a vehicle that was between the boxes trapped in high waters, while the heavy rains flooded the area and, in some places, flowed up and on the curbs, according to the Moore Police Department.
One of the vehicles left the road flooded and was swept under a bridge. Police said all their occupants were rescued by the woman and the child, who were then found dead.
“This was a historical climate event that impacted the roads and resulted in Didens for high water incidents throughout the city,” said Moore police in a statement. “The Moore Police Department wishes to extend our neighboring agencies that helped in rescue efforts. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims.”
Moore Police had launched a search for people dragged into flood waters, sending diving equipment, land crews and drones to investigate a stream that ran under the bridge after their truck slid it, the CBS News KWTV affiliate. With the vehicle nailed under the bridge and missing two occupants, the dramatic video shared by the station showed an emergency responder suspended by a harness on the hurry current of the stream, apparently trying to access the truck and those that were inside from above.
Multiple water rescue the place of Toks around Moore on Saturday, according to KWTV, who also shared a video of someone passing through the waist next to a car submerged in the area.
It is forecast that storms would continue to sweep sections from southern Oklahoma until Sunday, where the National Meteorological Service in Norman warned of sudden floods that would probably increase again in the early hours of the morning.
In other places, the severe climate was expected to hit parts of the East of Texas through the Valley of Ozarks and Mid-Mississippi in the afternoon and night, threatening portions of Arkansas and Missouri with destructive winds potentiax and long grains, which Whilde Whildee, Waild Whild WhildE Storm prediction.
Tornado watches were in force on Sunday for parts of those two states in addition to the pockets of eastern Oklahoma and several places in the southwest, center and northern Texas. In the Montague County of this last state, which is about 80 miles northwest of Dallas-Forth Worth, a strong storm soaked in neighborhoods and in multiple cases required boat crews to rescue people from the waters of the floods, CBS News Texas Reported. Until Saturday night, there were no reports of injuries or damage to households or businesses in that area, according to the station.
The forecasts have predicted the sausage of weekends that storms would decrease on Monday.