Huckaby said that the flooding started overnight on streets and interstates. "It looks like we're high in the mountains somewhere with some like Class V rapids, which is crazy," Cody said. Trenton Cody, 29, said he drove over Monday morning to take a look at the effect the floodwaters were having on the lake's dam. "As the rain stopped, the water started to recede pretty quick," Neal said.Īt White Rock Lake in Dallas, where the water level has been low through the baking summer months, people with umbrellas and water-proof jackets braved the rain Monday morning to watch the deluge transform the lake's previously dry concrete spillway into what looked like a roaring river. "We had to get to them by boat and pull them to safety," said Neal, who added that others chose to stay in their flooded homes. Fire Chief Eric Neal said they rescued four people from one flooded home and one person from another. In Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb where last month a grass fire that started in a tinder-dry open field damaged over two dozen homes, officials on Monday rescued people from flooded homes. Jenkins declared a state of disaster for Dallas County and requested federal and state assistance for affected individuals. A 60-year-old woman was killed when her vehicle was swept away by flood waters, said Clay Jenkins, presiding officer of the Dallas County commissioners. "There was quite a bit of variation in the rainfall totals," Barnes said.Īt least one fatality was blamed on the downpours as emergency responders across the area reported responding to hundreds of high-water calls. By Monday afternoon, the rain had moved out of the area, she said. "We've been in drought conditions, so the ground soaked up a lot of it but when you get that much rain over that short a period of time, it's certainly going to cause flooding, and that's what we saw, definitely in the urban areas here," Huckaby said.Īcross the area, rainfall amounts ranged from less than 1 inch (3 centimeters) to over 15 inches (38 centimeters), said National Weather Service meteorologist Sarah Barnes. The most was 9.57 inches (24.3 centimeters) that fell Sept. That ranked second for the top 10 most rain over 24 hours in Dallas on record.
The official National Weather Service record station at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported 9.19 inches (23 centimeters) of rain in the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. "The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight," said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. DALLAS - Heavy rains across the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads and water seeped into some homes and businesses.
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