Mom and her 12-year-old son killed as their car gets swept away in ‘historical’ storms

A mother and her 12-year-old son were among three killed in “historical” storms that slammed Oklahoma when their car was swept away in flood waters.

Erika Lott, 44, and her 12-year-old son Rivers Bond were inside one of two stranded vehicles in flood waters in Moore, south of Oklahoma City, late Saturday, the Moore Police Department said.

The mother and son were eventually found dead in their swept-away car at around 2 a.m. Sunday after an extensive search, KOCO reported.

Another person inside the vehicle was able to be rescued, the outlet said.

Bond was a sixth-grade student at Apple Creek Elementary, which is near the location of the crash, the school told the outlet.

The county responded to dozens of other reports of “high water incidents,” police said.

“This was a historical weather event that impacted roads and resulted in dozens of high-water incidents across the city,” Moore police said in a statement Sunday.

The storm also killed one person about 80 miles southeast in Spaulding after tornadoes touched down in the area, according to the Hughes County Emergency Management.

Several homes and structures were destroyed, and there were “numerous washouts” of county roads, the department wrote in a Facebook post.

The tornado, which “skipped and jumped around” over a path of 6 to 7 miles in the rural area, seemed to track across the north side of town to a shopping center, “leaving a lot of damage to buildings, power lines and trees,”  Jason Keck, Ada director of emergency management, said in a Facebook post.

At least two tornadoes also crossed Parker County in Texas on Saturday, ripping off the roofs of several homes, photos showed.

On Sunday, the storm moved northeast, bringing a high risk of damaging hail, wind, and heavy rain in Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, and southeastern Iowa. The severe weather left thousands in Missouri without power.

Additional heavy rain is expected across parts of the Plains this week. There is a high risk of more flooding as streams and the ground are already inundated with water, Bob Oravec, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center, told the AP.

A GoFundMe to support funeral and medical costs for Jason Lott, a first responder who lost his wife, Erika Lott, and son Bond, has raised over $10,000 of its $15,000 goal as of Monday.

With Post wires.