The eye witnesses captured at the time the firefighters took an old woman to a safe place when her car was surrounded by several feet of flood waters in a suburban street in Wichita, Kansas, on Tuesday when the west medium and parts of the south were mistreated by storms, floods and suspicious tornadoes.
Colin Fee and Danielle Hart, who took the images in Wichita, told NBC News that saw two people rescued from another car at the same time. The rescue was among some of the 77 “Summers calls” that the Wichita Fire Department received the drivers stranded on Tuesday.
The fire department had begged drivers who pay attention to the advice widely used during floods: “Turn around, do not drown you.”
“The waters were increasing, they were very close to their car was completely submerged, so it seemed to be relieved and happy to be alive,” Hart said.
The couple said the waters rose several feet in just 45 minutes and that they only received a warning “approximately one hour in the flood.”
A tornado warning was issued in Kansas City, Missouri, and social networks users captured a huge cloud of funnel that formed an overload, while a semi -trailer was revoked in the interstatal 35. Another video showed strong rains and winds that blew through the Kauffman stadium, home of royalty, while Tornado Sirens provides.
A woman published in Tiktok that she and other buyers had to take refuge in the freezer of a Whole Foods branch.
Kansas City received a record of 2.46 inches of rain on Tuesday, breaking the previous daily rain record of 2.25 inches established in 2015.
The city launched its emergency operation team, which deals with the great disasters, and said that its teams had already begun to evaluate the damage and cleaning of the rubble last night. There have been no injury reports so far.
Some 18 million people from Kansas to Texas were under sudden flood alerts on Tuesday, and only isolated thunderstorms are expected on Wednesday. But while the weather will calm on Wednesday, relief is only brief.
A new Round of moderate to strong rain is expected on Thursday night, with 33 million in a large country strip at risk of severe thunderstorms, from large lakes to eastern Texas.
“For Thursday night until Friday morning, a low pressure wave is forecast on the plains of southern high and then track to the east, preparing the stage for a moderate to strong rain round and strong to severe storms to impact the center of the USA.
