The first of several rounds of severe weather hit part of the Gulf Coast on Thursday, spinning up tornadoes near Houston and damaging buildings in Louisiana. In other news, a stretch of Interstate 80 in New Jersey was closed after a sinkhole opened up on the shoulder of the eastbound lanes on Thursday morning. The sinkhole that appeared near Wharton, New Jersey, was due to the collapse of an abandoned mine under the highway. And in Utah, a man rescued his brother from a “large avalanche” he triggered while the pair were snowmobiling on Wednesday. The brothers were in the Franklin Basin area of Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest when one of them triggered the avalanche

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