Over 30 Tornados Reported From Texas to Alabama on Christmas

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Severe weather tore across the deep South, spinning off 34 possible tornadoes and killing at least three people in its path on Christmas day. The storm first pounded Texas, then touched down in Louisiana and blasted through homes in Mississippi. In Mobile, Ala., a wide funnel cloud was barreled across the city as lightning flashed inside like giant Christmas ornaments.

According to ABC News, over 280,000 customers are still without power from Texas to Florida.

In the Houston area a tree fell onto a pickup truck, killing the driver. In Louisiana, a 53-year-old man died when a tree fell on his house, and a 28-year-old woman was killed in a crash on a snowy highway near Fairview, Okla., according to the Associated Press.

The last time a number of tornadoes hit the Gulf Coast area around Christmas Day was in 2009, when 22 tornadoes struck on Christmas Eve morning.