A wind and hailstorm affected the towns of Locust Bayou and Harrel in Calhoun County. Initial reports indicate that 40 to 50 homes have been damaged. The Central Arkansas Chapter sent an Emergency Response Vehicle and a team of trained disaster workers to help the residents of these two areas. A bomb threat in a school in Mechanicsburg resulted in the evacuation of students to a nearby park shelter. Disaster workers provided snacks and drinks for the evacuated students.
Many communities are still inaccessible.
There is every indication that the number of families known to be affected will increase as roads become passable. Commonwealth shelters remain open with disaster workers from the Red Cross chapter providing hygiene items, diapers, etc. The relief leadership team began arriving last night and will be in place by early this afternoon. A fire at the State University of New York at Oswego displaced twenty students. Disaster workers from the Onondaga-Oswego Chapter provided snacks and drinks for the evacuated students until they were able to return to their dormitory.