Happy Holidays and Giving Tuesday/ Support People in Valley View, Texas Tornado Damaged Homes

Emergency Relief Fund: Providing food, water, shelter, and other necessities to families impacted by the storm.
Debris removal and clean-up: Aiding communities in removing downed trees and other debris to clear roads and restore normalcy.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
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Here's how your donation can help:
$25 can provide a care package with essential supplies for a family in need.
$25 can provide shelter to displaced animals by the storm.
$50 can help ensure a family displaced by the storm has access to food and shelter.
$100 can contribute to debris removal efforts, making neighborhoods safe and accessible again.
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Seven people died in Texas and more than 100 were injured as the severe weather swept through the state, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference Sunday evening.
Abbott said 106 counties in Texas were under disaster declarations.
More than 200 homes or structures were destroyed and another 120 were damaged, Texas officials said.

Video shows Cooke County residents hiding in a Shell gas station as a tornado hit the area Saturday night. The tornado begins to tear apart the building with residents scrambling for safety.
No one inside the gas station was killed, according to WFAA.
Abbott mourned those who were killed in the storms, saying, "There's only one thing that cannot be rebuilt, and that's a loss of life -- That's why we always stress to everybody, whatever you do in any type of storm, put life first."
A 2-year-old and a 5-year-old from the same family were killed in Cooke County, Texas, officials said. The children were among the seven people who were killed in the area, which is north of Dallas.
The tornado that battered Cooke County was preliminarily rated an EF-2 with winds up to 135 mph.

The storm tore through a roadside travel center near Valley View, Texas, before continuing through a community of manufactured homes, according to Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington.
More than 60 people were injured

Most of those fatalities occurred at the nearby FRF Estates in Valley View, a community of manufactured homes about 60 miles northwest of Dallas, according to Sappington.
He said emergency response crews were combing the development for survivors Sunday morning amid "major damage."

Another hard-hit area was the Gateway AP Travel Center in Valley View, where many people pulled off the road to seek shelter in the parking lot or in the truck stop's restrooms and 60 to 80 people were injured at the facility.

It would really help if people just stayed away right now, gave us a few hours to get our search and rescue done," Sappington said. "I know some people were out of the area and trying to get back, but it's dangerous out there. Power lines are down. There have been reports of gas leaks. It's just dangerous right now. Just give us some time to do what we need to do. We're trying to still rescue people. The best thing people can do right now is give us a little time."