Crammed into their two-door Toyota Celica with three huskies, Hailey Hart and her fiance, Steve Romero, hugged and prayed as a tornado rolled the car upside down before tossing it on its wheels again.

They heard screams for help minutes after the twister ripped apart their home in Tylertown, Mississippi.

“It was a bad dream come true,” Romero said.

Next door, Hart’s grandparents crawled out from the rubble of their house where they had sought shelter in a bathroom Saturday. They all escaped with a few scratches and aches.

Throughout the South and Midwest, residents and work crews were beginning to clean up Monday and survey the destruction after severe weather across seven states kicked up a devastating combination of wildfires, dust storms and tornadoes, claiming at least 42 lives since Friday.

Wind-driven wildfires across Oklahoma destroyed more than 400 homes, including more than 70 in and around Stillwater, home to Oklahoma State University. Four deaths were blamed on the fires or high winds, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said Sunday.

Crews trying to control the fires were quickly overwhelmed while going up against the winds and low humidity fueling the flames Friday, Stillwater Fire Chief Terry Essary said.

In Mississippi, six people died and more than 200 displaced by a string of tornadoes across three counties, the governor said.

Within about an hour of each other on Saturday, two big twisters tore through the county that’s home to Tylertown, according to a preliminary report from the National Weather Service.

Scattered twisters killed at least 13 people in Missouri, authorities said.

Dakota Henderson said he and others rescuing trapped neighbors found five bodies in rubble Friday night outside what remained of his aunt’s house in Wayne County.

In Arkansas, officials confirmed three deaths.

The winds spurred dust storms that led to almost a dozen deaths in car crashes Friday, including eight in a Kansas highway pileup involving at least 50 vehicles and three in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.