A wintry storm was pounding parts of the central Plains and Texas with heavy rain Saturday, threatening to coat some areas with dangerous layers of ice and exacerbating a flooding situation that has left at least three people dead near Dallas.
More
than 7 inches of rain have fallen in the Dallas area from Friday into
Saturday morning, leading to widespread flooding, and more rain is
expected into Sunday.
The
flooding led to at least three deaths, including one in Garland,
northeast of Dallas. Benjamin Floyd, 29, was unable to get out of his
vehicle before it was submerged Friday, Garland city officials said. The
two other flooding deaths came in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth,
county emergency management officials said.
In parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas,
the storm was expected to bring bands of accumulating ice Saturday, a
situation that could make travel difficult and leave power outages.
About 2.5 million people were under an ice storm warning Saturday morning, including residents in the Oklahoma City area.
Freezing rain was expected from Amarillo, Texas, to just west of Kansas City.
Another
4 million people were under a winter weather advisory or freezing rain
advisory. Flash flood watches from Texas to Missouri were in effect for
11 million people. One, for much of North Texas, is schedule to expire
at 6 a.m. Sunday.
Oklahoma City is
under a winter weather advisory and a flash flood watch, with western
Oklahoma under an ice storm warning. Western Oklahoma is expecting
freezing rain on Saturday morning with light ice into the night and
Sunday morning. Light ice is also possible for Oklahoma City tonight and
early Sunday morning for a brief period, with warnings to stay off
roads, according to CNN affiliate KFOR.
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