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>> and her husband's car was with-in the driveway. it's back in the alley. >> reporter: gar land took the brunt of the storms. >> i can see it. >> reporter: lafayette griffin huddles with his family under a mattress and prayed as the tornado hit. >> it was terrifying. terrifying. very terrified. you know, they didn't know if they were going to make it. >> reporter: eight people died when a tornado hit the area around interstate 30. and in some neighborhoods storms ripped facades off houses, leaving gaping holes. and in other cases houses were just gone. >> the grace of god it worked. i'm reall...

Neighborhood. garwin is also the area where eight people died overnight and five of them were on the highway and five of them were traveling down interstate 30 when the tornado crossed the interstate right in front of them and they were swept off the road and smashed under the pavement below an underpass and were all killed. that's where the majority of deaths occurred. two more deaths occurred in the town of copeville which is about ten miles from here. two people were in a gas station/feed store. they were killed. and an infant was killed in the town of cedar ridge, texas. so a devastating t...

It flew through a garage and landed in the wall like if anyone had been out there they wouldn't have made it. it was very scary. only lasted like maybe two minutes. shortest tornado ever. but it tore through. >> i was in my room playing on my game, and i heard get in here. i got into my bathroom and then my ears started ringing and i was scared. >> reporter: tornadoes are dangerous any time of the day but especially at night when you can't see them. that's what happened to about five motorists who were killed on interstate 30. the storm came through during the night. motorists didn't see it co...

Area. the folks stayed with us last night. today they're back trying to get into their neighborhoods to see what's left of their homes. >> what are authorities telling them, dan, about some of the dangers? are there downed power lines? are there ruptured areas? are the roads intact? what is the situation? what are the potential risks? >> one of the big problems right now is traffic. i-30 is the major east/west artery that runs through this area. and it is -- it's literally a parking lot in places as people try to get into and out of the area. that could be rubberneckers, but it also likely inc...

That was so shut down because of the heavy rainfall in some instances, almost eight inches of rainfall that shut down a western portion of the loop the 12 loop and interstate 30. take a look at what happens. this is a forecast radar. this is not the actual radar. but this is what is expected. from amarillo to lubbock, all the way to midland, texas, a complex of storms as we head towards midnight. look at dallas not just yet, but after the midnight hour it looks like an explosion of storms we could see another round of potentially heavy rainfall. but kind of an east-west orientation around waco...