Dallas Rain

[kapkomet]

There's water sitting where I've never seen it in my 5 years here. It's been pretty amazing here the last 12 hours...

 

 

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Texas Floods Wash Out Roads, Damage Homes

 

 

By JAY JORDEN, Associated Press Writer

 

DALLAS - An estimated foot of rain fell during fierce storms overnight in parts of North Texas, flooding homes and highways. One man died in a weather-related wreck that toppled power lines onto his vehicle and cut power to homes.

 

 

 

Southern Dallas County was especially hard hit by flooding, with 175 to 200 homes damaged by high water in the suburb of Lancaster. Flood waters damaged the Lancaster police headquarters.

 

 

The National Weather Service (news - web sites), which estimated up to 12 inches of rain fell in Lancaster, issued new flash flood warnings early Thursday for the Dallas-Fort Worth area as more thunderstorms developed.

 

 

Lancaster police evacuated residents from more than 240 homes early Thursday after Ten-Mile Creek rose out of its banks alongside one subdivision.

 

 

"It's a mess out here," dispatcher Debbie Brand said. "We had to get those people out of their houses."

 

 

Parts of Interstates 20 and 45 were closed by high water.

 

 

Lancaster Police Lt. Jim Devlin said the town's police station began to flood late Thursday. A leaking roof caused the ceiling of the 911 call center to collapse, and calls were routed through the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. Dispatchers used handheld two-way radios to communicate with officers.

 

 

Devlin said 50 to 100 residents said they suffered major damage in the storms, which intensified overnight after an upper-level low pressure system moved into the Dallas-Fort Worth area Thursday evening.

 

 

The Waxahachie Police Department brought in a boat to help with rescues.

 

 

One motorist was killed when his pickup truck knocked over a utility pole in a weather-related wreck and live wires fell onto his vehicle in the Dallas suburb of Oak Cliff. The victim, who was not immediately identified, could not be pulled from his vehicle for some time. The impact of the wreck cut power to about 15 homes.

 

 

In the northeast Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City, fire-rescue officials rescued a 16-year-old boy who had been swept into a flood-swollen creek that also flooded the Skyline Mobile Home Park, threatening 12 homes, and firefighters were evacuating residents.

 

 

"If the weather continues to get worse, it could be a problem," Deputy Chief Wes Rhodes said. "As long as we stay ahead of it, we're all right."

 

 

Four people in Carrollton were rescued from a car trapped in rising waters. Flood waters also caught motorists at Dallas intersections.

 

 

Wind gusts of 58 mph were measured at Alliance Airport, and trees were uprooted in Lewisville and elsewhere. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines delayed some flights and canceled others at Love Field.

[southsider2k5]

Just goes to show you once again, everything is bigger in Texas.

 

Is the house site OK, for you two?

[kapkomet]

That little last blurb about Alliance Airport, that is about 1/2 mile as the crow flies from our house...

 

We went out there last night - they had laid down the floors - then the 70 mph winds and rain hit. They had laid down stuff to keep the floors from getting scratched up and it was all over the place and the rain had blown in the kitchen form the back door of the house - water was all over the floor but no bad damage that I could see. And upstairs they had the windows open but the floors needed washed anyway

 

Actually the walls are painted, most of the trimwork is done, the light fixtures are in. So really there is some cleanup stuff, touchup things, replacing the doors that they screwed up (they ordered the wrong ones) putting the carpet down, painting the outside siding, appliances, and that's it.