OVER 939,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER AFTER STORMS HIT U.S. TEXAS

Tue 28 May 2024:

More than 730,000 customers in the U.S. state of Texas were still without power after storms hit the state, according to an update of PowerOutage.us on Tuesday morning.

The numbers continued to climb and more than 300,000 outages occurred in Dallas County alone. Over 160,000 homes and businesses across the states of Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia and Missouri were without power as of Tuesday morning after the same storm system pushed through the East.

A building destroyed in Denton, Texas

In total, at least 20 people have been killed as storms hit the central United States over Memorial Day weekend with significant property losses.

Sunday was the busiest severe weather day of the year so far, with more than 600 reports of strong winds or hail across more than 20 U.S. states, according to a CNN report.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said more than a third of all counties in his state were now subject to a disaster declaration.

Sheriff Ray Sappington of Cooke County, Texas, said the death toll there included two children aged two and five and three members of the same family.

“It’s just a trail of debris left,” said the sheriff of Valley View area, which was among those hardest hit by a powerful tornado. “The devastation is pretty severe.”

Lightning, thunder and heavy rain meanwhile forced the evacuation of around 125,000 spectators as Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 race was delayed by four hours.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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