Storms injure 14 and flatten homes
Downed power lines, flattened houses and roads littered with debris kept many residents from returning to their homes in the rural Panhandle town of Cactus, hit hard by what appeared to be a group of tornadoes.
At least 14 people were injured, one of them critically, during the storms late Saturday that knocked out power to about 20,000 customers in the region, officials said.
About 50 townspeople were unaccounted for, but officials said they believed all were safe and probably evacuated after hearing tornado sirens in this mostly poor city of 2,500.
The National Weather Service sent teams to determine how many tornadoes had hit.
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