Heavy rain has descended on the South and the Gulf Coast, bringing localized flash flooding to both north and west Texas and stranding a handful of drivers on impassable roads. ABC 8 reports that Fort Worth roads started flooding Monday morning and rescue crews were dispatched to save drivers in submerged vehicles across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. In Saginaw, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, flash floods submerged local roads. Oncor reports that over 2,000 customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex lost power by mid-morning. A United Airways flight made a hard landing in rainy weather at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, before sliding into muddy grass off the runway.
Mobile, Alabama, saw its fair share of flooding Monday morning, and, as AL.com reports, heavy rain led the sewer system to overflow across the city.
On top of the rain, lightning struck a major water main in Mobile last night, cutting off water service to local businesses and flooding roads in South Mobile County. In Macclenny, Florida, a woman and her daughter were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after lightning struck near the pair, First Coast News says.
That same lightning strike caused a structure to catch fire, but no word is out on other impacts.
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