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Friday 16 december 2022
South cleans up from tornadoes as blizzards advance north

Continued from Front together, most of the coun-
try has been affected.”
A few others caught in the Roger Hainy, who owns
storm’s path weren’t so for- a farm near Wessington
tunate. Springs in central South Da-
A man who was out buying kota, said he was shut in
groceries Tuesday when a after blowing snow formed
suspected tornado struck drifts that made the roads
rural Keithville, Louisiana, impassable. Hainy’s farm
returned to find his mobile lost power earlier in the
home swept away and his week when freezing rain hit
wife and 8-year-old son the area.
missing. Hours later, au- “Back when I was a kid we
thorities discovered the used to have three-day
body of Nikolus Little in the blizzards, but this one is go-
woods. His mother, Yoshiko ing to be four days,” Hainy
A. Smith, was found dead said. “It’s been a long time
later, under storm debris. since we’ve had one like
“He just went to go shop- this.”
ping for his family, came In Bismarck, North Dakota,
home and the house was an additional four inches
gone,” Caddo Parish Sher- (10 centimeters) of snow
iff’s Sgt. Casey Jones said. were expected Thursday to
A third death was con- top a foot that has already
firmed west of New Or- accumulated. Wind gusts
leans in St. Charles Parish, of 60 miles per hour (96 kph)
where Sheriff Greg Cham- Debris is strewn about following severe weather Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in Keithville, La. prompted a no-travel advi-
Associated Press
pagne said eight people sory for major highways.
went to hospitals with in- the vast majority of them in containing 5,000 roosters, issued blizzard warnings “The wind and ice — it’s
juries Wednesday and a Louisiana and Mississippi. Rankin County Sheriff Bry- Thursday in the Dakotas miserable, and a lot of
woman was found dead In New Orleans, a home an Bailey said. In Summer- as well as portions of Mon- people are in the ditches,”
outside a home.“There was collapsed, injuring four ville, Alabama, Fire Chief tana, Wyoming and Ne- said Dean Cota, manager
debris everywhere. She people, and five people Michael Aaron said storm braska. As the storm moves of the Stamart Travel Cen-
could have been struck. were injured in New Iberia, winds tore away roofing eastward, interior parts of ter, where the parking lot
We don’t know for sure,” Louisiana, where a pos- and downed power lines. the Northeast could ac- was full of truckers waiting
Champagne said. “But this sible tornado smashed the Before the storm front start- cumulate as much as one out the storm. “Everything’s
was a horrific and a very windows of Iberia Medical ed moving offshore, police foot (30 centimeters) of just slick and it’s blowing
violent tornado.” Center, authorities said. in rural Doerun, Georgia, snow, said Zach Taylor, a vehicles right off the road.”
The National Weather Ser- “When I came out, all the reported that a suspect- weather service meteorol- In New York, Gov. Kathy
vice can take days to con- windows were broken,” ed tornado struck a large ogist in College Park, Mary- Hochul said the state is well
firm whether destructive Lindsey Ronsonet, who was building housing a cot- land. “It really, truly has prepared for several inches
winds were in fact torna- with a friend seeking treat- ton gin, leaving a sagging been a coast-to-coast win- of snow expected in some
does. Data compiled by ment when the storm hit, heap of bent metal. No ter storm that has affected areas over the coming
the Southern Regional Cli- told KATC-TV. “They had injuries were reported, the a large portion of the coun- days. During a briefing in
mate Center at Texas A&M rain everywhere in there.” police department said in try, and that doesn’t begin Albany, Hochul said there’s
University showed nearly 50 In Mississippi, a suspected a Facebook post. to even mention the severe also a chance that strong
tornadoes reported across tornado destroyed four Further to the north, the weather in the South,” Tay- winds could topple power
six states since Tuesday — large chicken houses, one National Weather Service lor said. “When you put it all lines.q

Jan. 6 committee to vote Monday on

riot criminal referrals

tial crimes. targets would be or wheth- obstruction of an official
The committee of seven er former President Donald proceeding of Congress.
Democrats and two Re- Trump would be among Recommendations by the
publicans has interviewed them. The committee has committee would add to
more than 1,000 witnesses, focused squarely on Trump the political pressure on the
held nearly a dozen hear- and efforts by the-then Justice Department as it in-
ings and collected millions president in the weeks be- vestigates Trump's actions.
of documents as it worked fore the attack to overturn The committee on Wednes-
A video of President Donald Trump is shown on a screen, as the to create the most com- his 2020 election loss to day is expected to release
House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the prehensive record of the Democrat Joe Biden. its final report, which could
U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July
21, 2022. insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. It would fall to federal pros- include hundreds of pages
Associated Press The chairman, Rep. Bennie ecutors to decide whether of findings about the at-
Thompson, D-Miss., has said to pursue any referrals for tack and Trump's efforts to
By FARNOUSH AMIRI hold its final meeting Mon- the committee will make prosecution. Lawmakers subvert democracy. Com-
Associated Press day, wrapping up its year- criminal referrals to the Jus- have suggested charges mittee members will re-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The and-a-half-long inquiry by tice Department recom- against Trump could in- view the highlights of their
House committee investi- asking the Justice Depart- mending prosecution, but clude conspiracy to de- findings at the Monday
gating the Capitol riot will ment to investigate poten- has not disclosed who the fraud the United States and meeting.q