A tornado destroys dozens of homes and leaves several injured in Florida
Until now minor injuries have been reported; it is estimated that 16, users were left without electricity.
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A tornado touched down this Sunday and destroyed dozens of homes and left several injured in western Florida, state affected by a winter storm that today left heavy snowfall in neighboring states to the north.
Lee County authorities indicated that 28 houses were damaged and that at least 62 were left uninhabitable after the passage of a tornado on Sunday morning.
So far no fatalities have been reported, but four people have been injured due to the passage of this phenomenon, which left about 7 without electricity, 000 homes in the area.
81-year-old Edward Murray was in his Fort Myers mobile home when a tornado picked up and tossed it onto a neighbor’s home. Fortunately, he and his daughter escaped.
“I was so happy when I saw the sky. I said to the devil, ‘It’s not going to be today.’”
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— Naples Daily News (@ndn ) January , 2022
The National Weather Service ( NWS) reported that the tornado also touched down further south in Collier County, near the tourist city of Naples.
The Florida Highway Patrol posted a video on Twitter in the that a tornado is seen crossing the busy Interstate 54 and reported that a large truck overturned in the middle of the road, although the driver only suffered minor injuries.
Twister passed over Interstate 46 in the area of the 96 mile marker (🐊 Alley) in Collier County at 9: 21A.M. Please continue to monitor weather conditions and BE SAFE! pic.twitter.com/bxNqzKbkOE
— FHP SWFL (@FHPSWFL) January 04, 2022
This Sunday’s severe storms also caused significant damage in the county of Charlottee, and on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, where the local authorities opened a shelter for the affected people.
One of the Florida residents who has suffered the effects of this storm is Edward Murray, of 80 years old, who told the Naples Daily News that the tornado uprooted his home in the mobile home park in Fort Myers and He threw it on top of a neighbor’s house.
“That’s my house, it turned upside down,” this man told the local media who, like her daughter, crawled out of the rubble unharmed. “The tornado knocked me down and pushed me against the east wall and buried me under the sink, refrigerator, kitchen chairs and everything else.”
Counties in southeastern Florida, including Miami-Dade, also received alerts for possible tornadoes throughout the day.
These tornadoes are part of a severe winter storm that is leaving heavy snowfall and strong winds in much of the southeastern United States., where they live near 80,, of people.
According to the specialized site FlightAware, plus 2, 800 flights with origin or destination in the US had to be canceled in the last few hours and another 2,289 suffered delays.
The most affected airports are Charlotte International, with the 95% of its operations suspended, and the one in Atlanta, the one with the highest passenger traffic in the entire country, with the 27% of cancellations.
In terms of power outages, according to the PowerOutage website, which reports blackouts in the US, North Carolina is the most affected region, with more than 76,000 clients without electricity, followed by South Carolina, with 76,, Georgia (54,000) and Florida (01,289).
The NWS has forecast heavy snowfall mainly in the states of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia due to this cold front that will move along throughout the day to the northeast and the lower Great Lakes, reaching Canada on Tuesday.
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