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Sonya Banes looks at damage caused by a large oak tree that crashed through the ceiling of her mother’s house in Learned, Miss., Thursday, April 18, 2019. Several homes were damaged by fallen trees in the tree lined community. Strong storms again roared across the South on Thursday, topping trees and leaving more than 100,000 people without power across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. less Sonya Banes looks at damage caused by a large oak tree…

Updated 5:03 pm CDT, Thursday, April 18, 2019 A thunderstorm moves across John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington, Kan., Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Several thunderstorms turned severe as they moved through the area. A thunderstorm moves across John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington, Kan., Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Several thunderstorms turned severe as they moved through the area. Photo: Orlin Wagner, AP Photo: Orlin Wagner, AP Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 A…

Adrian Sainz and Jeff Martin, Associated Press Updated 7:17 am CDT, Thursday, April 18, 2019 FILE – This March 21, 2019, file photo shows a large video screen at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., displaying rivers and streams in the central and southern United States. The facility helps produce forecasts that show the stage is set for unprecedented, major flooding this spring for most of the nation. less FILE – This March 21, 2019,…

A mini-documentary series chronicling the cast of characters passing bills in the Texas Capitol.  More in this series  Hurricane Harvey, which caused more than $125 billion in damage, is the most expensive storm in Texas history. It wreaked havoc on nearly every Gulf Coast community when it came ashore Aug. 25, 2017. The devastating winds and rain destroyed every multifamily development in Rockport. And without affordable housing, the town has struggled to find contract labor…

Updated 3:27 pm CDT, Wednesday, April 17, 2019 ALTO, Texas (AP) — A survivor of a deadly Texas tornado says he managed to crawl out of a grass house at a Native American historic site before the twister hurled it into the distance with two other people still inside. Jeff Williams of Nacogdoches (nak-uh-DOH’-ches) is president of Friends of Caddo (CAD’-oh) Mounds, a historic site in Alto (AL’-toh) that was among areas across the South that…

Hurricane Maria was the rainiest storm known to have hit Puerto Rico, and climate change is partly to blame, according to a new study. The worst rain fell in the mountainous central part of Puerto Rico, from the northwest to the southeast. That part of the island is rainy under normal conditions. In an average year, it gets more than 150 inches of rain. When Maria hit in 2017, it dropped nearly a quarter of…