You can see there on the radar behind me.
Boy, it's just been lighting up as
we've gone through the day today.
But those storms are starting to wind down.
Finally this morning though,
they dumped some serious rain.
This video was from W 7th St in Fort
Worth and that's not wise right there.
You've heard us say it many times before.
If you see high water like this,
it is best to not drive through it because
it can be dangerous to you and certainly
not good for your automobile either.
Check out the video from
the Balch Springs area.
Today, firefighters there having to actually
go into some homes and pull people out.
Look at it.
They're almost up to their waists there.
That's how fast the water
started rising this afternoon,
just trapping some people in their homes.
You can see that little pit
being carried to safety too,
by that woman there.
It's not just homes either.
Several cars had to be abandoned
on major highways today,
this is on I-30 just South
of downtown Dallas.
You can see that standing water there.
Our photojournalist Justin
Fuller also recorded this video
of cars that were stranded.
Near peak and Roseland
streets in East Dallas,
people just deciding it
was coming up too fast.
They got in too deep and they just got
out of there and we just got to look
at some of the damage from the air.
This is in Seagoville.
You can see vehicles underwater there
as well and crews having to rescue
people from their homes there too.
We saw some first responders
carrying two children to safety also,
people grabbing what they could
as their homes filled with water.
We just saw that image a moment ago,
somebody carrying a bag of belongings.
And a pet.
We've been seeing that in several
places today.
Here is a live look now from HD Chopper
8 still over that scene in Seagoville,
where as you can see people are
being shepherded away from the
places where that they call home.
A lot of those places just
waterlogged right now,
or it's just hard to get out you,
you know, can't even discern
where the street begins and ends.
And so first responders have been
busy out there all day long.
Today.
Again,
thankfully that radar starting to quiet down.
A little bit because we got it so fast here,
Kyle.
You know, you've said it for weeks that,
you know, we've been in drought,
drought, drought,
drought and and that oftentimes
it ends with flooding.
And here we are.
Yep.
Droughts have a tendency to end in
floods here in North Texas, for sure,
12 to 15 inches of rain potentially
in parts of kind of eastern Dallas
County from the stunning amount in,
in less than 24 hours in most
of those places. You know, we
were talking about this lot not
long ago where you were saying to
bust the drought here you would
need 12 to 15 inches of rain.
And that sounded like an absurd.
The amount of precipitation and
here it's for for for an entire month.
Yeah, we just got it in 24 hours.
Basically crazy.
Will this completely end the
drought in all of North Texas?
No, but will it make a really big dent
in the drought in quite a few places?
Yeah, that's certainly possible
and we desperately need it.
That's just unfortunate that
it fell so heavily so quickly,
and we saw the the problems that that caused.
But the good news at this
hour is look at that radar.
Not a whole lot going on in and around DFW.
There's some lingering showers, yes,
and there will continue to be some.
Passing light showers,
maybe a little light rain happening the rest
of the afternoon into the evening hours,
but nothing heavy enough to
cause additional flooding.
Of course,
you just saw those live shots from
Seagoville the the high water will
remain until it can slowly recede,
but I don't see any additional flooding
due to the fact that we're going to
get more rounds of heavy rain that has
come to a close at least across DFW.
It's now shifted well down into
Central Texas over into East Texas.
Yes,
there could be a little light rain falling
here there over the next several hours,
but I'm not calling for.
What we saw last night
into this morning at all,
not only today but also over the
next couple of days as well,
look at some of these totals.
SE Dallas,
potentially over 15 inches of rain.
Bulk springs where there was a lot
of problems, over 12 inches of rain.
So a foot of rain falling in bulk springs.
Garrett Park, which is in East Dallas,
over 10 inches of rain.
Fort Worth picked up 9 1/2.
Fort Worth had a lot of that rain
kind of during the early nighttime
hours last night and then picked up
more last night into this morning and
then the big airport over 9 inches of rain.
At at DFW Airport in fact one
of the rainiest 24 hour periods
ever observed out at DFW Airport.
Here's some other totals from
across the area.
Collin County unfortunately
kind of the loser in all this.
I mean you don't want the flooding of course,
but less than an inch of rain
in McKinney but in Denton,
well over 2 inches.
Cleburne picked up over 7 Terrell
over 6 inches of rain.
Canton over 6 inches of rain,
waxahatchee over 4 inches of rain.
So it wasn't 15 inches all over the area.
It's not going to completely in the drought,
but it was really going to help
us out as we head into the.
The rest of the afternoon and evening,
a little spotty rain possible,
and as we head into overnight
tonight as well,
your commute tomorrow much more manageable
than what we were dealing with today.
But of course this rest of today
into tonight and tomorrow.
Watch out for the lingering
high water in places because
it's gonna take a while for
some of that to recede.
So additional flooding like we're you know,
additional spots become flooded.
Highly unlikely, but we're going to be
dealing with some residual flooding this
evening and into the overnight hours.
But during the day tomorrow
and into Wednesday,
I don't see any additional problems at all,
even though I do have a little
bit more rain in my. Forecast.