Parts of the central United States are being hit with severe storms, bringing flooding, tornadoes and baseball-sized hail. Major damage has been reported in an area north of Omaha, Nebraska. A local resident surveyed the damage to his home.
Resident: “Hell, it was about four o’clock when it hit. And, boy, it come through like a freight train, man. It sounded like the world was coming to an end almost. It was bad. Wife just — we all went to the basement, and then, whenever it calmed down a little bit, we went upstairs, and all the windows is gone in the house, and all the siding’s gone.”
The storms have also hit parts of Kansas, Iowa and Missouri as they now move further east. A National Climate Assessment from the White House last month listed stronger storms and extreme rainfall as one of the outcomes of human-driven climate change in the United States.