Hey guys, it's Janelle Fort with W FAA. We are at 635 and White Rock Lake
and we've come across a bit of flooding. I wanna show you guys what we're seeing.
Take a look at the
pass. This road right here is Park Central Drive
and you can see the underpass is just washed out.
It's not really clear how deep these waters are.
I haven't tried to go down there and I would urge any of you if you see high water.
Remember the phrase, turn around, don't drown, don't go in it.
You never know how deep it is. But if you look
at the street sign here,
it can give you a little bit of indication of how high the water is.
It's going up about half way on that pole there.
So these waters are deep right now. It is sprinkling, not raining too hard
but a little earlier, it was pouring and when it was pouring,
this water
was rushing through the intersection. Now, the good news is
that up here
coming off of the 635 access road,
this road is already blocked off, there's cones up there.
So we haven't had to worry about any cars trying to make their way down into this.
Also in Park Central.
If you go this way about a block,
it's blocked off
long before any cars get to any of the
area that's flooded.
And then on the other side, it's the same situation
when I look through the underpass here. All I see is water,
deep water.
So this is really indicative of what we're seeing again.
We know that there's a flash flood warning for much
of Dallas County right now and under the right conditions,
this is what can happen.
Hey, there, I'm Cole Sullivan at White Rock Lake in Dallas.
And we're still seeing some damage from the storms earlier this week.
Even as more rain and wind makes its way on into the DFW Metroplex area.
Let me show you some of what we're seeing here behind me.
You can see this road here is closed because of flooding high waters,
close that road and just driving over here,
almost all the intersections we pass in this neighborhood,
the power of the traffic lights are still either flashing or out entirely,
which means that everywhere traffic is slow moving and backed
up four way stops on our way to get here.
There's still damage from the storms earlier this week too.
It's hard to see on the ground over here is a stop
sign that was blown over by the storms and over this direction,
you can see
there's still trees down in this area because of the, the water is,
the rain rather is slowing down at the moment.
But we know there are more rounds on the
way and that's adding concerns of what's next halt.
Just trying to dry out the ground is soggy and any wind that
comes with that rain could blow over more trees.
We haven't seen very many flooded roadways yet, but of course,
that's still a danger as we move through
the next few hours with more storms coming into our area.
We've been driving through South Dallas,
northwest Dallas and now in West Dallas and heavy
rains have only added to the frustration of residents
leaning poles like these and down trees are just
half the battle with thousands still without power.
Everybody just want to let you know we are on I 35 east
going northbound near Market Center
and it is slow going in this area due to all this flooding right here
that's been happening in the left
and middle left lanes. A lot of people are going around it,
but
some people are trudging through it too. Wouldn't advise that.
Probably want to take it slow.
The five o'clock rush hour traffic
it's about to begin.
Uh And if you're coming this way northbound,
probably gonna wanna expect uh delays because everyone's going around.
Uh all this flooding right here
that 18 Wheeler right there is going through it. He's able to make it through.
It's not too bad, but it's enough to get everybody stopping
and going around it.
What's going on? Everyone? This is Richard Solomon right now. I am in 40 Texas
and let me tell you, it's been cutting up out here
all day for the most part. Right now. We actually hit a pocket.
I'm gonna show you the sky right now just so you can see how it looks.
But all day we've been out here, we've seen heavy rain
when we were on our way out here. It was thundering, it was lightning.
Um,
we've seen some, some pretty strong weather
out here so far.
And actually the 40 fire department told me
that the National weather service confirmed that this area
is under a severe thunderstorm warning. So
basically, if you don't have to be out, don't be out. Stay inside, stay dry
and stay safe and stay locked in with W FAA for weather updates live.