The communities are prepared for floods while the storm moves through the central United States

A storm that brings torrential rains, dozens of tornadoes and dangerous floods has swept in the central United States for days and should continue to hit the region on Saturday, the meteorologists say.

The officials are preparing for rain, strong winds, hail and potential floods of flash from the Eastern Texas and Louisiana through the Ohio Valley in the south -ovest of Pennsylvania, according to the Weather Prediction Center.

The storm has already caused chaos in those regions, killing at least eight people, including a 9 -year -old boy who was swept away by flood waters in Frankfort, Ky. The heaviest rain so far, which has caused dangerous floods, mostly fell into Arkansas and Southern Missouri. The recovery efforts have been stunted in some areas of time, which could reduce until Sunday.

Saturday, the Western Tennessee, the South -eastern Arkansas, the western Mississippi and the Louisiana will have to face a serious risk for the storm.

“People will have the potential for all methods of bad weather, from Tornado to damage to the damaged winds, up to hail,” said Scott Unger, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Nashville. Sometimes, hail could be as big as golf balls, he said, with a potentially strong climate that lasts until Saturday evening.

The National Weather Service also felt potentially lethal flashing lamps throughout the region and invited people to turn to turn if they came across faded roads, adding that most of the floods of floods occurred in the vehicles.

City through the path of the storm, which include Little Rock, Ark.; Jackson, Miss.; And Memphis are preparing for the worst. The mayor Craig Greenberg of Louisville, Ky., He declared in a press release that expected the Ohio river to increase by about 30 feet. Officials of the county of St. Louis, Mo., said that part of the Etrse 44 would probably be underwater by Sunday. Paducah officials, Ky., He said they were installing doors and obtaining more pumping stations.

While the looming rains were worrying, the people in the affected areas were competing for the damage that had already been done. Friday, Sydney Metz, residing in Nashville and a student graduated from Vanderbilt University, was mostly worried about how to reach his lessons and his job part-time next week, because his car was restless and did not start.

“Our courtyard is completely flooded,” he said on Friday. “Just an entire furious river.”

In New Madrid, Mo., Nick White, the mayor, said on Friday that the weekend storm could bring one of the most serious floods in the history of the city, which is located on the Mississippi river. He was preparing the city for a substantial increase in the river.

“We have backup generators, we have a backup pump,” said White, adding, “we were truly proactive against reactive”.

The victim’s balance rose on Friday. At least five were killed in the Tennessee, including a teenager. A man was killed in Danville, India, after coming into contact with demolished power lines. Garry Moore, a head of the Whitewater firefighters, Mo., was killed on Wednesday responding to the detriment of the tornado.

Frank Pereira, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service, said on Friday morning that the heaviest rain had fallen on Friday and would continue throughout the first half of Saturday.

On Saturday, serious thunderstorms are possible, which extend to the areas of the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana.

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