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After deadly tornadoes tear through Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott declares disaster for 16 counties
That is the second catastrophe declaration that Abbott issued in per week. On Friday, the governor signed a catastrophe declaration for 11 counties as a consequence of wildfires.
Gov. Greg Abbott issued a catastrophe declaration Tuesday for 16 counties after damaging tornadoes ripped via giant swaths of Texas the day earlier than and killed a 73-year-old girl.
The Nationwide Climate Service obtained reviews of 20 tornadoes all through Texas and Oklahoma on Monday. Abbott signed the catastrophe declaration after talking at a press convention at Religion Group Hospital in Jacksboro. The tornadoes tore aside properties, colleges and companies in the neighborhood, as seen in Climate Channel drone footage. No accidents in Jacksboro have been reported. Round 80 properties have been impacted, Abbott mentioned.
Hours later, he visited Crockett, a metropolis over 100 miles northeast of Houston, to deal with the injury there.
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The lone reported demise in Texas from Monday’s tornadoes is a girl from Grayson County who was killed when a twister destroyed her dwelling, in accordance with NBC DFW. The North Texas TV station reported not less than two dozen individuals have been injured throughout the state as robust winds and tornadoes uprooted bushes, destroyed properties and buildings, and broken autos. State officers are encouraging Texans to report damages on the Texas Division of Emergency Administration web site.
The identical storm system is shifting east Tuesday, in accordance with The Washington Put up. It might convey one other spherical of tornadoes, hail and damaging straight-line winds within the Deep South.
The catastrophe declaration unlocks state assets to deal with reduction from storm damages and consists of the next counties: Bastrop, Cass, Cooke, Grayson, Guadalupe, Houston, Jack, Madison, Marion, Montague, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Upshur, Williamson and Sensible.
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Monday’s storms got here simply earlier than the start of peak twister season in Texas, which runs from April to June.
That is the second catastrophe declaration that Abbott issued in per week. On Friday, the governor signed a catastrophe declaration for 11 counties over wildfires spreading throughout the state, fueled by excessive winds and dry circumstances.
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