The Nation - News from June 28, 1988

Welcome showers and thunderstorms fell in the South, but there was no letup in the drought. The National Weather Service predicted continued dry weather across the Midwest and the Tennessee Valley. Extreme weather was blamed for eight deaths during the weekend--two children killed in Southern storms and six elderly people dead of heat stroke in Missouri. Rain fell from the Carolinas to parts of Texas to eastern New Mexico. Many cars were reported stalled in flooded streets of Odessa, Tex., and a flash flood watch was called in northwest Texas. Jackson, Mich., Parkersburg, W. Va., and Toledo, Ohio, posted record cold temperatures from 44 to 49 degrees, but record highs continued elsewhere.