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Texas incurs over $1.1 billion in damage, sustaining heavy losses to crops in the Rio Grande Valley and widespread power outages affecting some 200,000 people. Five indirect deaths are attributed to the storm, including four from carbon monoxide poisoning in Edinburg.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1]
In 1859 Thaddeus Parris, a Mexican–American War veteran for whom the community was named built an ox-turned gristmill [3] at this location. This attracted settlers of the area during the next decade and until sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century Parris remained a community center for area farmers.
By the turn of the 20th century, disputes over Rio Grande water were brewing between farmers in southern New Mexico’s Mesilla Valley and those in El Paso, Texas, and neighboring Ciudad Juárez ...
A strong current flows in the main canal next to the border wall in the lower valley of El Paso, Texas during irrigation season in June 2023. ... Rey into Texas, the Rio Grande becomes the U.S ...
It is part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley region. The city of Matamoros is situated in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the south bank of the Rio Grande, while the city of Brownsville is located in the U.S. state of Texas, directly north across the bank of the Rio Grande.
The new barricades added to a 1,000-foot string of existing barricades Texas placed in the Rio Grande in June, 2023, near Eagle Pass — a notorious hotspot for drug trafficking and human smuggling.
The Rio Grande Valley's citrus industry, based on cultivation of the famous "Ruby Red" grapefruit, was particularly hard hit. Padre Island, just off the Texas gulf coast, suffered significant devastation, and the island's sensitive ecosystem was altered by the storm. Within a 36-hour period it dropped almost 30 inches of rain in Beeville, Texas.