His mother and her 12-year-old son were killed in a “historic” storm that denounced Oklahoma when his car was cleaned in the flood.
Erica Lott, 44, and her 12-year-old son Riverbond were in one of two filamentous vehicles in a flood in Moore, south of Oklahoma City late Saturday. The Moore Police Department said.
The mother and son were eventually found dead in a sweeping vehicle around 2am Sunday after a massive search. Koco reported.
Another person in the vehicle could be rescued, the outlet said.
Bond was a sixth grade student at Apple Creek Elementary School, near the location of the crash, the school told the outlet.
The county responded to dozens of other reports of “high water accidents,” police said.
“This was a historic weather event that affected the roads and led to dozens of high water incidents in the city,” Moore Police said in a statement Sunday.
The storm also killed one about 80 miles southeast at Spalding after the tornado landed in the area, According to Hughes County Emergency Management.
Several homes and structures were destroyed, and there were “major washouts” on county roads, the department wrote in a Facebook post.
The tornado that “skipped and flew around” the rural 6-7-mile road appears to be tracking its way across the north side of town to the shopping centre, “has caused significant damage to buildings, power lines and trees,” says Jason Keck, Director of Emergency Management, ADA Director of Emergency Management. He said in a Facebook post.
At least two tornadoes also crossed Parker County, Texas on Saturday, stripping up the roofs of several homes, photos showed.
On Sunday, the storm moved northeasterly, increasing the risk of damaging hail, wind and heavy rain in Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois and southeast Iowa. The bad weather left thousands of Missouri people without power.
Additional heavy rain is expected to occur this week on parts of the plains. Bob Olabeck, the lead forecast for the National Weather Service’s Weather Forecast Center, is at a higher risk of flooding as the river is already flooded with water.
GoFundMe to support funerals and medical expenses for Jason Lott, the first responder who lost his wife, Erica Lott and son Bond, had raised more than $10,000, a target of $15,000 as of Monday.
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