Funnel clouds were spotted in the areas of Elgin and Round Rock, Texas, as severe storms spread damage across parts of the state on Monday.
On Tuesday, areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama could see"a regional severe weather outbreak," the Storm Prediction Center said. That area, including the cities of Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi, could see strong tornadoes Tuesday, forecasters said.
Federal and state authorities in Louisiana reminded thousands of hurricane survivors living in government-provided mobile homes and recreational vehicle trailers to have an evacuation plan because the structures might not withstand the expected weather. More than 8,000 households are living in such temporary quarters, Bob Howard, spokesman for a joint information center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said Monday."Repeated bouts of heavy rainfall can occur over the same areas, increasing the risk for flooding," the statement said."Move to higher ground if you hear of flood warnings.
Nearly 1,800 households in trailers provided directly by FEMA are unable to return yet to homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020, according to a news release last week. Another 1,600 trailers , Howard said, and Louisiana has set out more than 4,400 RV trailers for Ida's victims under a test program paid for by FEMA.
Anyone living in state or FEMA temporary housing needs to keep cellphones on and fully charged, with the volume high and severe weather alerts enabled, the agencies said.And, the release noted, the mobile homes and RV trailers are government property that cannot be moved.
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