一天内刮起67场龙卷风极端天气袭美致6人遇难_BEC初级作文

一天内刮起67场龙卷风极端天气袭美致6人遇难

More than 60 tornadoes had been reported throughout the region as of 5:10 p.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

As a tornado neared his home, Khoury prayed and recorded a video of the dark twister churning toward him.

"The tornado happened in my backyard, and you can hear people screaming," he told CNN's iReport. "We were freaking out."

While his house survived the storm, Khoury said others in the neighborhood weren't as lucky.

Video from CNN affiliate WMBD showed one Washington neighborhood where a tornado smashed cars and houses, littering the ground with broken wood beams and flinging furniture and debris onto lawns, sidewalks and streets.

"I grabbed my daughter and ran," one storm survivor told WMBD.

In nearby Peoria, Mayor Jim Ardis said his city was planning to send aid to help storm recovery in Washington, where a tornado hit what he described as a "very densely populated area."

"It's just absolutely unbelievable," he said.

Jack Lance, who lives in Pekin, said he saw a lot of wreckage in his town.

"We saw trees down, houses with their roofs completely torn off. I saw a lot of people in distress with their homes destroyed," he said. "It wasn't a pretty sight."

Officials delayed the NFL game between the Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens for nearly two hours as storms approached Chicago, warning spectators to leave the stands at Soldier Field and head for covered areas.