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Recovery begins after storms that kill 11 in Midwest, South

By The Associated Press un- ment expressing grief over were hit by a vehicle at the power in the Carolinas on
defined the loss of life. In northwest- scene of a traffic accident; Sunday morning.
Thousands remained with- ern Louisiana, three deaths and in Iowa, where a semi- Entergy Corporation, said
out electrical power Sun- were blamed on high winds. trailer on Interstate 80 over- its subsidiaries serving Ar-
day morning after week- A man in his bed in Oil City, turned, killing a passenger. kansas, Louisiana, Texas
end storms ravaged parts Louisiana, was crushed to Near Kiowa, Oklahoma, a and Mississippi had more
of the Southeast and Mid- death by a tree that fell on man drowned after he was than 30,000 customers with-
west, causing 11 deaths, his home early Saturday. swept away by floodwa- out power Sunday morn-
overturning cars, uprooting A couple in nearby Bossier ters, the Oklahoma High- ing, most in Mississippi and
trees and reducing build- Parish were killed when the way Patrol said. Arkansas. That was down
ings to rubble. storms demolished their High winds and icy weath- from a peak of 134,000 out-
The National Weather Ser- mobile home. The National er were factors in power ages in the entire Entergy
vice says it was a tornado Weather Service said a tor- outages affecting tens of system. While most were
packing winds of at least nado with 135 mph winds thousands of people in the expected to be restored
134 mph (215 kph) that hit hit the area. South and the Northeast. later in the day, some in City of Greenville, Miss., trucks
Alabama's Pickens County Icy road conditions were The PowerOutage.US web- areas of Arkansas and Mis- and employees, work to clean
on Saturday, killing three. blamed for Saturday site, which tracks outages, sissippi with extensive dam- up debris from a storm along
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey deaths in Lubbock, Texas, reported more than 40,000 age might take longer, Main Street, Saturday, Jan. 11,
2020, in Greenville, Miss.
praised the state's first re- where two first respond- outages in New York. More said spokeswoman Lee Associated Press
sponders Sunday in a state- ers were killed when they than 28,000 were without Sabatini.q