Cody Kelly walks from a flooded home near Downsville, Texas, Saturday, October 24, 2015, after checking on the owner of the home. Moore said that since Friday morning, Corsicana has received 18 inches of rain and Powell has received 20 inches.
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Mayor Annise Parker warned residents to stay away from wet roads after dark and be aware of flash floods, which the National Weather Service said were occurring in the city early Sunday.
While there have been no reports of deaths or major injuries, there have been a number of incidents on the roads.
Heavy rains that brought a flood threat to North and Central Texas will spread into South Texas on Sunday as a stalled cold front causing the downpours is reinforced by remnants of Hurricane Patricia. Brittany Rainville, a spokeswoman for the county, said officials believed many residents in the peninsula would probably not follow that order since they are accustomed to flooding and usually wait it out.
Floodwaters throughout Texas caused transportation delays, and the Houston Chronicle reported that emergency personnel responded to 29 weather-related rescues in the area.
Patricia roared ashore in Mexico on Friday as a Category 5 terror that barrelled toward land with winds up to 200 miles per hour.
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A Union Pacific train with dozens of cars carrying cement derailed in Corsicana, one of Navarro County’s hardest-hit communities, though not before two workers on it managed to stop it, climb out, then swim to high ground, company spokesman Jeff DeGraff told CNN.
Galveston County Judge Mark Henry on Saturday issued a voluntary evacuation for Bolivar Peninsula, just northeast of Galveston Island. The dog is safe, but the man remained missing as of Sunday.
“There’s a few very intense rainfall still to come across Louisiana and Mississippi”, Danielle Banks, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said.
“There will be localized flooding in Houston, primarily street flooding”, she said.
One locomotive and several rail cars loaded with gravel went into the water and were partly submerged, DeGraff said.
Flight tracker flightaware.com reported that about 100 Saturday flights had been canceled at Dallas-Fort Worth global Airport.
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Information from Reuters and the Associated Press was included in this story.
