After flooding parts of Texas, storms move toward Louisiana

While still at sea, Patricia was deemed the strongest hurricane ever on record in the western hemisphere but decreased substantially in strength when it made landfall and didn’t cause the mass destruction that was expected.

A worker cleans out the “Monterey” Hotel after damage from Hurricane Patricia in Melaque, Jalisco, Mexico.

Multiple water rescues were reported in Corsicana, Texas, over the weekend.

The storms over the past two days drenched a large swath from south of Dallas to the southeast coast, triggering flash flooding in Navarro County, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Dallas, on Saturday.

The Houston EOC reported high water and disabled vehicles in at least a dozen locations around the city. Many streets, and a major highway, had to be shut down.

Dallas was in the thick of it Saturday, getting about eight inches (20cm) of rain in 24 hours.

Lessons learned from the May floods also seemed to keep more drivers out of danger, authorities said.

A homeless man is missing in San Antonio after floodwaters swept him away while he was trying to save a dog early Saturday morning.

As expected we saw widespread rain across all of Southwest Louisiana today, but it was not as bad as it could have been.

Flash flood warnings and watches were still in effect early Sunday but expired as the storm moved eastward into the afternoon.

The dog was later found safe.

With rain falling at a rate of four inches per hour, rivers are swollen and the creaks upstream are loading with the inevitable prospect of more flash flooding throughout Sunday and Monday.

After a long stretch of dry weather, the final week of October is going to bring a few good rain to the area, though by the end of the week we’ll see a return to sunny skies.

Cody Kelly walks from a flooded home near Downsville, Texas, …

National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Overpeck said Sunday that soaking showers around Houston should begin clearing this afternoon.

The County Judge of Galveston previously required 4,000 homes to voluntarily evacuate to prevent injuries or casualties before the rain came in. The two crew members swam to safety and nobody was hurt, and several rail cars loaded with gravel were partly submerged, he said.