Seven dead – including one child – in deadly Christmas tornadoes: Storms rip through the South flattening homes and injuring dozens as freak holiday weather across the U.S. baffles experts
Tornadoes touched down in Indiana and Mississippi, where three were killed, and two more perished in Tennessee Wednesday
Michaela Remus, 18, was killed in Arkansas after gust of wind blew a tree onto a house where she was sleeping near a 1-year-old toddler, who was rescued
A 7-year-old boy died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, when the storm picked up and tossed the car he was riding in
Storms packing strong winds toppled tractor-trailers and power lines leaving thousands of people without electricity
A tornado damaged or destroyed at least 20 homes in Mississippi
Other parts of the country, including New York, are enjoying unseasonably mild, Spring-like weather on Christmas Eve
Record highs in the 60s already have been recorded early Thursday in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York
DaiyMail.com
24 December 2015
A storm system forecasters called ‘particularly dangerous’ killed at least seven people and injured 40 others as it swept across the country Wednesday, before giving way to unseasonably warm, Spring-like weather marked by record-breaking temperatures in the central and eastern states on Christmas Eve.
Tornadoes touched down in Indiana and Mississippi, where three were killed. The springlike storms packing strong winds killed two more in Tennessee.
A tree blew over onto a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman identified as Michael Remus and trapping an 18-month-old child inside, authorities said. Rescuers pulled the toddler safely from the home.
A 7-year-old boy died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, when the storm picked up and tossed the car he was riding in with his family, officials said. Police there said several homes were blown off their foundations.
Slabs of metal were tangled in drooping power lines, dangling precariously alongside the road, and the smell of freshly overturned dirt and trees lingered in the air as emergency crews tended to downed power lines.
Mulester Johnson, 67, said he and relatives were inside his house in Holly Springs when the storm hit. The wind tore the back of his house from its foundation and multiple sheds were missing afterward, he said.
Trees rested atop several trucks on his property, and slabs of brick walls were strewn throughout his yard after the storm.
‘The chimney is the only thing that saved us really,’ he said.
Close by, in Benton County, Mississippi, two people died and at least two were missing. Crews were searching house-by-house and to make sure residents were accounted for.
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