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		</div><p>A Texas grandmother and four of her young grandkids were killed early Saturday as heavy flooding battered the state. Rescue teams in the city of Palestine found five bodies, a 64-year-old woman and four children, ages 6, 7, 8 and 9 near a home that had been damaged by the racing flood waters, Palestine Police Capt. James Muniz said.<br />
Family identified the grandmother as 62-year-old Lenda Asberry and her grandchildren as 9-year-old Voniyaejah Johnson, 8-year-old Devonte Johnson, 7-year-old Von Anthony Watkins, and 6-year-old and Jamonica Johnson.</p>
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<p>Police have not confirmed the victims’ identities. Between six and 10 homes on a single block were heavily damaged when a local creek overflowed following heavy rainfall over the course of just a few minutes after midnight<br />
“With the enormous amount of rain we had, we had people tell us that within minutes, the water was waist deep,” Muniz said.</p>
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<p>All other residents on the damaged Palestine cul-de-sac were accounted for, he said. City officials used a dump truck to rescue one man from the roof of a home, Muniz said.<br />
Merta White, who climbed onto the roof of her home from the porch, was yelling for help when she saw a &#8220;bump&#8221; float by in the water.&#8221;I thought it was a mailbox, but then I realized what it really was, and I started screaming,&#8221; she told the Palestine Herald-Press. Palestine is about 150 miles north of Houston, which was slammed with massive flooding of its own earlier this month</p>
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</em></span><strong>Emergency personnel carry a woman from a rescue boat as people are evacuated from Arbor Court Apartments in Houston earlier this month.</strong></h5>
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<p>“You see this stuff happen in Houston with flooding, but not here,&#8221; another neighbor Undra White said of the early morning flooding. &#8220;I just saw firefighters rescue a woman who was up to her face in water.”<br />
The disastrous flooding in Palestine came as storms swept across Eastern Texas and other parts of the Gulf Coast and Great Plains Friday.<br />
Tornados touched down in Texas and Oklahoma, weather.com reported, injuring at least two people. Heavy rain pummeled Arkansas and Mississippi Friday night, and golf ball- to grapefruit-sized hail fell across the four states.<br />
The storm is expected to move east toward the Atlantic throughout Saturday.<br />
Heavy rain and a few severe storms may impact the East Coast Sunday, with persistent rain falling through into Monday.</p>
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Texas grandmother and her four grandchildren killed in massive flooding
