Salisu, well – Storms carry heavy rains and harmful winds part of the ceiling off the hospital in eastern Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, forcing some patients to evacuate, according to the provincial officials.
Brad Taylor, director of the emergency department in Siloyeh Province, said that the northeastern health system in Salisu was to evacuate about nine patients after a small section of its roof was peeled, leaving part of the facility sunken. He said that no injuries were reported.
By Tuesday evening, officials were rushing to prepare for another round of destroyed rain.
“We collect fabrics, fill some sand bags, and we will try to prevent more water,” he said. “And we will move some things away.”
Severe storms struck parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas on Tuesday, when rainfall rates reach 2 inches (about 5 centimeters) per hour in the west of Arkansas and a province of Fluor, Oklahoma, according to national weather service.
Steve Cope, a national meteorologist in Toulsa, Oklahoma, said that heavy rains caused clear floods in East Arkansas, south of the 40th Highway, especially in Franklin County, although there are no reports of wind damage there.
Taylor said that outside the hospital in Salisaw was the ends of the fallen trees, and the south of the hospital had to be closed due to the harsh weather.
Northeast HELTH system immediately did not respond to the call from the Associated Press that requests the comment.
Sallisaw is the home of a rural agricultural community for about 8,500 people.