Hey there, I'm meteorologist Mariel
Ruiz and we are just outside of Eagan
in Johnson County looking at the damage.
This is all done by a radar confirmed
tornado just after 10:30 last night and this
is some structural damage that we found.
These are 10 walls that are now
in the middle of the building.
A few of these 10 walls have been pierced
by flying debris and just a block down.
We also noticed down trees.
There was about a 40 foot.
Tree that was down and just ripped
near the root. Just incredible to see.
That's a significant that is indicative
of 65 plus mile per hour winds and we
also found several down power lines,
power lines and trees as well as
a transformer that was down.
But now crews are here working on the power.
Hopefully everything gets restored.
Good morning everyone.
It's Malini Basu and Collin
County and Blue Ridge off of
FM 5:45 and North Main Street.
A storm last night took apart this car wash.
Not only that, it ripped off the roof
directly across the street.
From this Volunteer Fire Department,
the firefighters were inside six of them.
When all of this happened,
I just want to show you inside real quickly.
This is what it looks like inside
the Volunteer Fire Department.
The six firefighters were inside.
Thankfully no injuries reported.
Despite all of this,
they grab their belongings
and they went into town,
making sure that everyone is OK.
But again, that storm hit directly
in this area. The good news.
No injuries were reported.
Hey everybody.
Suzanne Bruder here.
I'm at Town Lake Park in
McKinney and I wanted to show
you what we're seeing this
morning now that the sun is up,
we're getting a better
idea of how things look.
We have some traffic.
Barriers in place.
Blocking this heavily
traveled road and because of
floodwaters on the other side,
but debris right here is a good
indication that shows how far these
floodwaters reached at one point.
But throughout the morning it
has receded, which is great news.
On the other side of this bridge,
though firefighters were out here last
night performing some high water rescues.
They were able to bring four people to
safety after they were stuck in their
vehicles that got stranded in floodwaters,
so luckily they're doing OK,
but we're going to have to one this morning.
We haven't seen.
Dozens and dozens of vehicles try to come
through this area only to turn around,
and this bus was the last one to try to turn
around. You can see it's just
stuck on the side of the road.
It is unable to turn around and wow,
we're starting to see some some students
come off of this bus because I mean,
it's been stuck here for at least 30 minutes.
And now these these kids are having to
get off the bus and I'm not sure what
kind of arrangements are being made,
but police are right behind this bus.
Helping them get to get to school
or to their parents at this point
as they try to get this bus back
on the road and to my right.
This is a Creek.
It is swollen and as a result has
sent so much water across this park.
No one is able to walk across
this pedestrian bridge anymore.
The trail you can't even see because water
is just rushing over it into that lake.
I do want to point out that
earlier this morning while I was
out here just before 4:00 AM,
we saw one driver.
Go around this barrier,
they the Jeep went up this curve
and around the barrier went halfway
through there and at one point it
got stuck for 30 seconds it appeared
and the floodwaters was pushing it
to the left but luckily it made it out.
OK. Since then we've seen several
other trucks that drive through.
One truck had to pull over here
because they heard a funny noise
and with their vehicle and they
were searching it and seeing if
there's anything that got stuck.
But that's just one thing that law
enforcement has been stressing all morning.
When you see these.
Traffic barriers, you know,
don't go around it.
Go another route.
They're there for a reason and
find an alternate route home.