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Communities from Texas to New York were picking up the pieces Tuesday after a devastating holiday weekend brought tornadoes, storms and heavy rain that killed at least 24 people and left hundreds of thousands without power.

The period of severe weather is still not over for Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which was rocked by early-morning storms Tuesday that knocked out power, downed trees, created damaging hail and made a mess of the area.

Tuesday’s storms in North Texas come just days after a system claimed killed at least seven people over the holiday weekend in nearby Cooke County.

String winds pushed an American Airlines plane away from a gate at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, an airport spokesperson confirmed.

A hailstorm Monday was so strong in Hurst, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, that it breached the roof of a Walmart store, prompting shoppers to use nearby products to provide shelter, according to videos uploaded to Instagram.

As for the rest of the week and beyond, the first signs are emerging that this hectic and historic tornado season — there have been 461 tornado reports just in May — could be slowing down.