Storms kill 6 in the South and Midwest as forecasters warn of catastrophic rains and floods this week

Storms kill 6 in the South and Midwest as forecasters warn of catastrophic rains and floods this week


LAKE CITY, Arkansas — Standing alongside the twisted steel tractors on his family farm in northeast Arkansas on Thursday, Danny Qualls looked on while friends and relatives helped him begin cleaning up.

The home where he spent his childhood but no longer lives was flattened by one of many tornadoes that left behind destruction from Oklahoma to Indiana — the first in a round of storms expected to bring historic rains and life-threatening flash floods across the nation’s midsection in the coming days.

“My husband has been extremely tearful and emotional, but he also knows that we have to do the work,” Rhonda Qualls said. “He was in shock last night, cried himself to sleep.”

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People look over the debris around a home at Lake City, Ark., on Thursday,

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