Edwards said this was the worst the flooding had been since she moved into the house less than a year ago. More than three inches of rain fell in parts of the area.
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Flooding on Thursday floated several travel trailers and a double-wide mobile home away from an RV park in the West Texas town of Rankin, 60 miles south of Odessa.
APPHOTO TXODE103: Water flows into a neighborhood Thursday, October 22, 2015, in Midland County, Texas following heavy rains overnight. The occupants safely evacuated.
A hailstorm with the same system blanketed parts of El Paso on Wednesday. In the Pacific Ocean, south of Mexico, the powerful Hurricane Patricia is expected to move north, across Mexico, bringing its remnants into Texas. As of early Thursday morning, the Odessa Fire Department said it had conducted at least 30 swift water rescues and pulled people from five buildings.
A motorist drives through a hail storm Wednesday afternoon in El Paso, Texas.
A reasonable expectation for rain accumulation is probably 3 to 6 inches across much of the metro area, with the higher end of rain totals to the west and southwest of Houston.
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In about a 20-minute period Thursday morning, a storm dumped about a half-inch of rain in Graham. The result: downpours of 5 to 8 inches with isolated pockets of 10 to 12 inches in the Texas Hill Country and along the Interstate 35 corridor from the Austin-San Antonio area to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
