Storm Damage

In Arkansas, April 19, 2011, a chain of storms ripped through the state. The storms caused major damage such as trees falling on houses, power lines, in the middle of roads to 14 Arkansas counties. These counties are Craighead, Crittenden, Garland, Greene, Hot spring, Independence, Jefferson, Johnson, Logan, Lonoke, Mississippi, Pulaski, Pope, and White county.

Almost all the damage reported in all of the counties was power outages. Some counties reported trees down in some areas, roof damage, and vehicle damage. A lot of effort has been put into helping people clean up the storm damage and help get everyone’s power back on, but, most of the cleaning up was delayed due to a new line of storms that came through the state. In hot springs most of the damage was trees falling on power lines.

          For example, on April 15, 2011, a deadly storm hit causing nine people to die. Therefore, the April 19^th storm caused the clean up to pause for the previous storm. Also, the April 19^th storm clean up will be delayed because of the storms that happened last night (April 25, 2011).

          Because of the storms, I believe people should be more aware of the weather around them by listening to the weather channel and paying attention to the news, I think if people do this deaths would be less and they could prepare for bad storms that cause a lot of damage possibly due to tornadoes.