“It’s been exhausting and heartbreaking,” Police Chief Justin Stamms said.
Juana Landeros, who rode out deadly tornado with her husband and her 9-year-old son when it rolled through the previous night, salvages a Guadalupe Virgin statue from her destroyed home on May 26, 2024, in Valley View, Texas. | Julio Cortez/APVALLEY VIEW, Texas — The dazed residents of a north Texas county sifted through their mangled homes on Sunday after seven people there were killed when a tornado ripped through the remote region near the tiny community of Valley View.
The county bore the brunt of powerful weekend storms that left 15 people dead across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Tens of thousands of residents were without power across the three states. He said most of the town’s residents work in farming, or at a local feed store and a postal service facility. Many of its displaced residents are staying at makeshift shelters set up inside area churches, he said.
“We’re trying to take whatever we can save,” she said. De La Cruz described the town about 55 miles north of Fort Worth as a tight-knit area of mostly Latino people.Men were already busy Sunday afternoon putting a new roof on a heavily damaged home. Teams of neighbors and volunteers from a local church helped residents carry furniture and other belongings from inside battered homes into pickups and trailers.
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