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Dec 9, 2008 2:58 pm US/Central
Grayson County Assesses Overnight Storm Damage
Storms Move East, But Temperatures Will Drop Quickly
Compiled from staff and wire reports
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
North Texas officials and residents are getting a better picture of the exact damage overnight storms caused. Preliminary reports say at least two dozen homes in the Sherman-Denison area had severe damage while dozens of others in rural Grayson County were damaged by the storm.
A handful of injuries have been reported, but no deaths, officials said.
Some residents of the small town of Southmayd are convinced a tornado passed through. "We've had 60-70 mph straight winds and it never did damage like that," resident Ken McKibban rationed.
Grayson County deputies said they saw a funnel cloud about 10:30 p.m. Monday, but National Weather Service officials have not confirmed it was a tornado that moved through the area.
McKibban was inside his mobile home when the storm blew over. Now he has to clean up the damage to it and a storage trailer. "We thought we were gonna be blown away," he said.
Next door, at T.J. Bristow's home, half the roof is gone. Bristow also believes the wind lifted his home off the foundation. "It lifted a good foot off the ground and set back down," the homeowner said rattled.
Farther north in Denison, the storm downed power lines, snapped trees in half, and destroyed out buildings.
Although the storms were in the forecast, residents said the storm struck suddenly.
One resident said the strong winds blew open the front door and eventually tore off a good portion of her roof. A door frame also collapsed, but she was saved from the crushing blow by other furniture that caught the brunt of the debris, the unidentified resident said.
After the storms thousands of Grayson County customers were left without power, with the majority of them in Denison. Officials also report isolated outages in Sherman and South Mayde.
Late Tuesday morning a cold front moved across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Mild temperatures quickly dropped into the mid 40s, with a strong north wind.
Wednesday will be sunny but chilly with highs in the 40s and then we have a warming trend heading into the weekend.
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