Rain and ice in central US linked to 14 deaths in Texas and Kansas
by Associated Press in Fort Worth, Texas from on (#W0VR)
- Icy conditions to persist overnight into Sunday
- Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas see flash-flood watches
A slow-moving wintry storm system that has been blamed for more than a dozen deaths began moving eastward out of Texas on Saturday but kept coating some states to the north in ice, making driving dangerous.
The band of storms that has been moving through parts of the plains and the midwest since Thursday has been blamed for at least 14 deaths, eight in Texas and six in Kansas. A 70-year-old woman whose car was swept away by flash flooding Friday in Fort Worth remained missing on Saturday.
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