One man was missing in San Antonio after being swept into a drainage ditch by floodwaters as he walked his dog.
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One man who was sleeping under a bridge on a grassy area was rescued by boat after climbing a tree, Lozano said.
Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff told WFAA, “Our conductor and engineer, once they put the train into emergency stop, they were able to jump free of the locomotive as they saw the water start to rise”.
Officials say the high water rescues were limited, and believe many residents learned lessons from the Memorial Day storms that left 2,500 cars stranded.
The National Weather Service said the area could be swamped with more than a foot of additional rain.
Slow-moving thunderstorms have dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain onto northern Texas since Thursday, leading to flooding, power outages and cancelled flights.
An upper-level low pressure system and an area of low pressure sliding east along the Gulf Coast are combining to deliver the drenching downpours.
Heavy rains fuelled by the meeting of two storm systems, one the remnants of Hurricane Patricia, pounded southeastern Texas, US, triggering flash floods and derailing a freight train as the heavy weather descended upon Houston early on Sunday.
And it may not get better anytime soon, with rain pushed by Hurricane Patricia expected to roll across the state.
Authorities on Saturday morning reopened a section of Interstate 45 near Corsicana that was closed due to flooding, backing up traffic for 12 miles.
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The remnants of Patricia, which was downgraded to a tropical depression and was expected to reach northern Mexico by Saturday night, may add to the rain falling in south and central Texas, said Jesse Moore, a National Weather Service forecaster in Fort Worth.
So far, the area has received up to a half foot of rain, he said, with localized flooding prompting two dozen road closures.
“Most people are just going to have their groceries and watch TV and watch it rain”, said Bryan Brawner, who owns a charter company on the peninsula that takes people fishing in Galveston Bay.
Authorities in Navarro County requested sandbags for an unspecified number of homes that were being evacuated due to flooding, the statement said.
The Houston Fire Department responded to 28 water rescue calls from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, Captain Ruy Lozano said.
The Houston area saw heavy rain for much of the afternoon Saturday and early Sunday morning, causing various high-water locations and impassable roads all over the greater Houston area.
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Isolated Severe Storm Threat: A few severe storms capable of producing damaging wind gusts or isolated tornadoes in southern Louisiana, possibly spreading to coastal Mississippi overnight.
