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Aerial view of flooding in Roman Forest, Texas. Jefferson County, Texas, was the county most heavily impacted by Imelda. [5] An estimated 5,100 homes were flooded in the county, suffering $14 million in damage. [5] [20] Major street flooding occurred in Beaumont where the Jefferson County flooding first began. [22]
The Sabine River also exceeded its banks in Orange County, flooding several homes and streets. [4] In Jefferson County, up to 8 inches (200 mm) of rainfall was reported. Significant flooding occurred in areas around the Hillebrandt Bayou. About 200 homes and 50 businesses in Beaumont received water damage, with losses estimated nearly $1.5 ...
Mid-October 1994 – The remnants of Hurricane Rosa cause severe flooding in Texas. [64] In some locations the flood is considered a 100-year event, peaking at 29.40 in (747 mm) in Cypress. [64] The floods kill 22 people and cause $700 million in damages. [64]
The flooding disaster unfolding across parts of Southeast Texas began days earlier, on Sunday, when the first rounds of heavy rain drenched the region and started to drain into lakes that were ...
A multi-day deluge of rainfall across the South created dangerous and life-threatening flooding in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi this week.
Areas throughout the South are bracing for the serious flooding consequences of 4-8 inches of rain and locally higher amounts into the start of this weekend, in addition to severe thunderstorms ...
Hurricane Harvey caused major flooding in southern Texas for four days in August 2017. Hurricane Harvey formed on August 17, 2017 east of the Lesser Antilles.Six days later, after degenerating back into a tropical wave and moving through the Caribbean Sea, Harvey reformed and rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in Greater Houston and Southeast ...