By: Herald Koh

Communities all the way from Houston to New Orleans have opened cooling centers to escape the hot temperatures. The heat wave directly follows recent tornados and natural disasters in the southern U.S. Over 1000 people have been left without electricity after a tornado that killed three people that Thursday.

. On Saturday, June 17, 2023, a beachgoer left Florida’s shoreline as a waterspout spun out of control.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott visited Perryton in the Texas Panhandle on ___date___.

“At times of events like these, Texans come together,” Abbott told reporters as he signed a disaster declaration that he said would “trigger all the resources the state can bring to bear… to accelerate the ability to rebuild.”

The national weather service had given out a heat warning. It said that the heat will extend from 115 to 120 degrees at Brownsville and Corpus Christi in Texas. Cool shelters were built along the coast and farther for residents left without electricity.