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© Reuters/South Dakota Department of Transportation/HandoutSnow covers the ground off Interstate 90 east of Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, in this view from a highway camera taken May 10, 2015.
Sne, oversvømmelse og kraftige tornadoer er blæst gennem mange af de centrale stater i USA, fortæller udryknings myndigheder. De mest ildestedte var Texas og South Dakota hvor dusinvis af mennesker er blevet såret og mange huse efterladt i ruiner.

Stormen ramte det østlige Van Zandt County og byen Van i det nordøstlige Texas i Søndags, fortæller Chuck Allen der er brand major og nødarbejde koordinator i i Van Zandt County. Mindst 26 folk er blevet taget på hospitalet.

Omkring 30 procent af Van, en by med 2,500 mennesker blev beskadiget.

"Skaderne spænder fra komplet ødelagte huse, beskadigede hjem, til faldne træer og stærkstrømsledninger," sagde Allen, der tilføjede at el og van firmaer nu genopbygger 'vitale infrastrukturer." Også Amerikanske Røde Kors er ved at åbne et tilflugtssted ved First Baptist Church i Van, fortæller Allen.

Mindst seks folk er blevet trukket ud af deres hjem af rednings helikoptere i Denton County, da tordenstorme bragte kraftige regnskyl i området, fortæller myndigheder.



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The storms have been affecting Texas for almost a week now. On Saturday, one person was killed in a tornado.

Powerful storms have also hit South Dakota where at least nine people received non-threatening injuries. A local Lutheran Church and 20 more buildings have been destroyed.


"Our house is flat. There is nothing left," Stephanie Lunder Delmont told AP. The officials have been evacuating the residents of Delmont, a town of 234 people. "It's a voluntary evacuation: there's no water, no heat, no electricity," Tony Mangan, public information officer for the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, told Reuters.


David Mathews, 70, who owns Old Bank Mini-Mart in Delmont, said that the storm was very fast.

"We were in our house and knew something was going on and getting ready to go to the basement, then it was over. We just built a brand new fire hall and it was destroyed. Also a row of houses near the fire hall."

The Black Hills, a small, isolated mountain range, in South Dakota has seen 30cm of snow. Tornadoes hit central Iowa where a roof from a high school was ripped off. Snow fell in parts of the Rocky Mountains and western Nebraska.

A tropical storm has struck the southeastern US as it created wet and windy conditions in North and South Carolina. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said the Tropical Storm Ana should be taken seriously and issued a 14 advisory, saying that "Ana [is] moving farther inland across North Carolina."