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Street flooding, power outages reported after severe storms move through D-FW

A line of severe thunderstorms caused street flooding, power outages to thousands and downed trees throughout North Texas Sunday afternoon.

In Old East Dallas, townhomes under construction at Munger and Annex avenues collapsed and trees were down throughout Dallas. The Dallas Zoo announced Sunday night that it would be closed to clean up damage on Monday. The zoo tweeted a icture of tree damage.

LaTasha Kelly, 39, described the moment a tree fell down on her car while she was still inside. She was able to get out of the car through the passenger door.

“All I heard was a cracking noise and the tree came down on us,” Kelly said. “Oh my god, I was so terrified. I was scared. I cried about 15 minutes straight.”

A tree fell on a parked vehicle with LaTasha Kelly, 39, not pictured, sitting inside as she...
A tree fell on a parked vehicle with LaTasha Kelly, 39, not pictured, sitting inside as she waited for the storm to pass, on Victor Street in the Munger Place Historic District of Dallas, on Sunday, Sept. 04, 2022. Kelly’s boyfriend was helping a friend change a tire when the tree came crashing down on Kelly’s vehicle. She was able to exit the car from the passenger door and take shelter under a porch as the storm passed. (Ben Torres / Special Contributor)

As of 4 p.m., the Oncor power outage map showed more than 120,000 customers affected by outages, and the majority of the outages were in Dallas-Fort Worth. By 7 p.m., that number was only down to about 119,000.

“At this stage, our damage assessment crews are the ones that are determining what repairs need to be made and what the impacts were,” said Briana Monsalve, an Oncor spokeswoman. “With storms like this it can always be car accidents, hail, flying debris, vegetation — a lot of different things that could have caused the power to go out.”

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said on Twitter that the city’s transportation department reported 132 signals on flash and 148 without power around 6:30 p.m. Dallas residents were asked to call 311 to report downed trees blocking roads.

The storm also caused flight delays. Flights into Dallas Love Field were delayed until at least 4:45 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration website.

One-inch-sized hail and wind gusts up to 60 mph had been forecast with the storms, according to the National Weather Service.

Madi Gordon, a weather service meteorologist, said pea-sized hail was reported throughout the storm area, but added that rainfall totals had not broken any records.

Storms are expected to die down by Labor Day, Gordon said, although there were still chances for isolated storms throughout the afternoon.

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