Edouard Triggers Rare Level 4 Flood Risk in Texas After Dumping Up to 21 Inches
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Updated · CNN · Aug 31
Edouard Triggers Rare Level 4 Flood Risk in Texas After Dumping Up to 21 Inches
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 31
Summary
Eastern Texas remained under a rare Level 4-of-4 flood risk after Edouard dumped an estimated 10 to 21 inches of rain, with some spots seeing a month’s rainfall in one hour.
Another 6 inches or more could fall into Thursday, and the Weather Prediction Center warned of considerable to locally catastrophic flash flooding even after a flash flood emergency expired late Wednesday morning.
Hardin County rescued about a dozen motorists, two people from a flooded home and evacuated 21 non-ambulatory residents from a damaged assisted living facility; neighboring Polk County helped five people, including children, leave a water-ringed mobile home.
More than 7 million people were under flood watches across eastern Texas, while strong winds from Edouard’s landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border left over 50,000 homes and businesses without power.
Edouard is expected to dissipate over eastern Texas by Thursday morning, but saturated ground leaves areas vulnerable to renewed flooding and a Level 3 flood risk shifts toward the Palestine, Texas, area.