Okla. declares state of puncture amid winter storm, flooding

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Weather conditions for one of a busiest transport days of a year eased Sunday after complicated sleet in Texas and icy roads north of there claimed 14 lives during a holiday weekend.

But a rope of sleet stretching from Tennessee into Arkansas, Oklahoma and north Texas persisted as families done their approach home after Thanksgiving.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin announced a state of puncture for all 77 Oklahoma counties due to a winter charge and flooding. Fallin’s bureau pronounced scarcely 100,000 homes were still though energy Sunday afternoon as a outcome of frozen rain, ice and sleet.

Power was out to an additional 10,000 in Kansas from progressing frozen rain, according to a Associated Press and Accuweather. But temperatures edged aloft Sunday, charity some intensity service in both states, pronounced Dan Pydnowski, comparison meteorologist with Accuweather.

Rains continued in North Texas where waterways were already distended and inundate watches remained in effect, a AP reported. Seven people were pulled from quick H2O in a apportionment of a Trinity River in southeast Dallas Sunday afternoon, WFAA-TV reported

Enchambe Bush, one of seven, pronounced a group’s vessel strike trees and flipped, and that they were propitious not to have been taken serve by a fast-moving current.

“Once it strike us, instincts can usually flog in,” Bush said. “It’s like, ‘Grab something, reason something […] we know isn’t going to boyant out into a center of a lake.’ We had a life jackets on, though there’s usually so most they can do.”

In Seagoville, south of Dallas, 3 people and a dog were discovered from their home due to flooding, according to AP.

.Rain hammering north Texas over a holiday weekend reached an annual record of some-more than 56 inches, leading a before high of 53.54 inches in 1991. This segment should start drying out by Monday, Pydnowski said.

“There is going to be some-more sleet and wintry continue on a way. But it’s going to be focused a small over north. Areas like Oklahoma, North Texas and eastern Kansas won’t be that bad” Monday, he said.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is one of a busiest transport days of a year, with rise highway overload generally by 6 p.m., according to an research by Waze

Travel nationally seemed to be mostly unfettered Sunday, Pydnowski said. The difference was in and around Denver, where sleet fell. “Nationally speaking, when taken as a whole, it’s not too bad,” he pronounced of a altogether transport conditions.

Eight people were killed Friday and Saturday in floods in North Texas, according to WFAA-TV in Dallas. At slightest 6 other people died in accidents on icy roads in Kansas, a AP reported.

Contributing: Greg Toppo, USA TODAY. Follow Gregg Zoroya on Twitter: @GreggZoroya