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Heavy rain in West Texas floats some travel trailers, mobile home from RV park, nobody hurt
Heavy rain in West Texas floats some travel trailers away
Associated Press | Oct 22, 2015 8:46 PM CDT
DALLAS
(AP) — Heavy rain in West Texas on Thursday led to flooding that
floated several travel trailers and a double-wide mobile home away from
an RV park.
Amber
Edwards looks at the mud and water that covered the floor of her home
in the 2500 block of North Tom Green Avenue in Odessa, Texas Thursday,
Oct. 22, 2015, following the overnight storm. Edwards... (Associated
Press)
Central
El Paso resident Abraham Silva sweeps hail from his front patio after a
storm Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 21, 2015, in El Paso, Texas. (Mark
Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP) (Associated Press)
Upton
County Sheriff Dan Brown said nobody was in the trailers during the
flooding in Rankin, 60 miles south of Odessa. The occupants safely
evacuated.
A hailstorm with the same slow-moving system blanketed
parts of El Paso on Wednesday. The rain is expected to increase in
intensity Friday and Saturday as Hurricane Patricia in the eastern
Pacific Ocean makes landfall Friday near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and
moves north toward Texas.
Odessa Emergency Management said crews
there on Thursday conducted about 30 swift-water rescues from stranded
vehicles and flooded structures.
Over
10 million people in the south-central U.S. face potential flash
flooding as a slow-moving storm dumps heavy rain through the weekend —
and only intensifies in the wake of Hurricane Patricia, forecasters
warn.
Cars were reportedly stranded by floodwaters in Corsicana,
south of Dallas, after nearly 10 inches of rain fell by Friday afternoon
since midnight, the National Weather Service said.
Officials in
Galveston County were considering a voluntary evacuation of Bolivar
Peninsula but would reevaluate Saturday morning.
Much of central
and southeast Texas were under a flood watch Friday and there were flash
flood warnings issued for Navarro and Hamilton counties, according to
the National Weather Service.
Over 4 inches of rain fell on
Collins by Friday afternoon and more than 6 inches of rain fell over 48
hours in parts of Tarrant County by Friday afternoon, the NWS said.
Water
flows into a neighborhood Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, in Midland County,
Texas following heavy rains overnight. One home owner said he had water
in his garage and his neighbor had water in his house. Mark Sterkel / Odessa American via APIn
total, parts of Texas could see 3 to 6 inches — and upwards of 10
inches locally — through Sunday, aid Lamont Bain, a meteorologist in the
National Weather Service's Fort Worth office, said.
That's because Patricia, the strongest storm ever measured on
the planet, is expected to make landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast
Friday night before pushing north into the United States.
Hurricane
Patricia 2015, the strongest storm ever, grew into a Category 5 on
Mexico’s central Pacific Coast late Thursday for what forecasters said
could be a devastating blow, as officials declared a state of emergency and handed out sandbags in preparation for flooding, according to Bloomberg.
Steady
rain began to fall after dark in Manzanillo, one of the country’s
principal ports, ahead of an expected landfall Friday. Luis Felipe
Puente, Mexico’s civil defense coordinator, said schools would be closed
in Colima state, which is home to Manzanillo.
“We are calm,” said
Gabriel Lopez, a worker at Las Hadas Hotel in the city. “We don’t know
what direction (the storm) will take, but apparently it’s headed this
way. … If there is an emergency we will take care of the people. There
are rooms that are not exposed to wind or glass.”
Hurricane Patricia to be devastating, according to National Hurricane Center.
The
U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami warned that preparations should
be rushed to completion, saying Hurricane Patricia could cause coastal
flooding, destructive waves and flash floods.
“This is an extremely dangerous, potentially catastrophic hurricane,” center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said.
Category 5 EPAC hurricane #Patricia was just sampled by #NOAA43 (@NOAA P3). This is the eye radar img 10/23/2015
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Hurricane
Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early
Friday, with experts warning it could trigger 40-foot waves along
southwestern Mexico and "life-threatening" flash flooding.
More
than 7 million residents — and an estimated tens of thousands of U.S.
citizens visiting or living there — were told to prepare for the
"worst-case scenario" as the ferocious storm was expected to race ashore
on Mexico's Pacific coast between 6 to 10 p.m. ET Friday.
At 5 p.m. ET, Patricia was about 60 miles west of Manzanillo, and about 110 miles south-southeast of Cabo Corrientes.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center
said Patricia was expected to make landfall "in the next several
hours." A hurricane warning was in place for San Blas to Punta San
Telmo.
The tourist magnets of Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo were
directly in the Category 5 storm's projected path, and Puerto Vallarta's
airport was closed Friday out of precaution as some stranded
vacationers described their inability to fly out of a "nightmare."
By
5 p.m. winds had weakened slightly to 190 mph, the Hurricane Center
said. Winds of 200 mph were measured earlier, and the Hurricane Center
labeled Patricia as the "strongest hurricane on record" in the Atlantic
and eastern North Pacific Basins.
Mexico has not formally
requested help from the U.S., but State Department spokesman Mark Toner
told reporters Friday that America "stands up to offer any assistance
that we can in the aftermath of what at least appears to be a pretty
epic event in terms of the intensity and size of the storm."
'Extraordinarily Dangerous' Category 5 Hurricane Patricia Makes Landfall in Mexico
byElisha Fieldstadt
An
"extraordinarily dangerous" category 5 hurricane slammed into
southwestern Mexico Friday night, bringing lashing winds and rainfall
that has the potential to create life-threatening flash floods. Hurricane Patricia
made landfall near Cuixmala, west-northwest of Manzanillo, carrying 165
mph winds at 6:15 p.m. local time (7:15 p.m. ET), according to the
National Hurricane Center. Palm trees bent and rain whipped in sideways
as the storm made its first appearance on land.
Patricia's
"potentially catastrophic landfall" would affect a stretch of coast
between the popular tourist destinations of Puerto Vallarta and
Manzanillo, the World Meteorological Organization said. Hurricane force winds covered 35 miles, while tropical storm force winds extended 175 miles, according to the NHC.
More than 7 million people were in the storm's path.
Rainfall
amounts of up to a foot in a short span of time between Friday night
and Saturday over the Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima,
Michoacán and Guerrero could trigger "life-threatening flash floods and
mud slides," according to the National Hurricane Center.
Jalisco
was already seeing destruction from the storm Friday afternoon,
according to state police. The state, which encompasses Puerto Vallarta
and the Guadalajara metro area, had 1,075 shelters set up, according to
the Ministry of Communications and Transportation.
About 3,500
people were evacuated from the region ahead of the storm, and airlifts
were prepared to rescue people from the region on Saturday.
Hurricane Patricia Strikes Mexico With 165 M.P.H. Winds
Photo
Preparations were underway for the arrival of Hurricane Patricia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Thursday.Credit Cesar Rodriguez/Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — The strongest hurricane to ever assault the Western Hemisphere slammed into Mexico’s
southwest Pacific Coast on Friday evening, transforming hotels into
makeshift shelters, shuttering schools, closing airports and sending
inhabitants racing to bus stations to flee inland.
The
storm, named Hurricane Patricia, was packing winds of about 165 miles
per hour as it struck land, having slowed considerably from earlier
speeds of about 200 miles per hour as it spun toward a coastline dotted
with tiny fishing villages and five-star resorts in cities like Puerto
Vallarta.
As
the outer wall of the hurricane swept over the coast at 6:15 p.m., the
authorities reported trees being knocked down and landslides taking
place along the road between the city of Colima and the port city of
Manzanillo. Light poles were quickly toppled and roofs torn off.
Less than an hour later, the National Hurricane Center said the hurricane was barreling inland over southwestern Mexico with maximum sustained wind speeds of 160 m.p.h. and remained “extremely dangerous.”
Photo
An
employee boarded up a store in the Pacific coastal resort of Puerto
Vallarta on Friday. The rapid strengthening of the storm caught many
people off guard.Credit Henry Romero/Reuters
The
government of Mexico had already declared a state of emergency in
dozens of municipalities in the states of Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco.
Residents had stacked sandbags around properties and rushed to grocery
stores to stock up on supplies.
By
noon, there were no more bus tickets to buy or gas to pump in order to
evacuate, some residents said. Lines at neighborhood grocery stores,
hours long earlier in the day, suddenly disappeared. Those who made it
out were long gone. The rest were stuck to weather out the monster
storm.
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