He said he may be able to salvage the furniture but he'll need to replace rugs and carpets. Peter Tarantino, who owns Tarantino’s Cicchetti Bar and Record Lounge in Dallas, told The Dallas Morning News that about 6 inches of water flowed into the dining room, but had receded by late morning. He noted that with so much concrete in urban areas, “there's just only so much that the drain systems can handle.” “We had some locations there in Dallas that had more than 3 inches (8 centimeters) of rain even in one hour.” “It fell very, very quickly,” Huckaby said. Huckaby said that the flooding started overnight on streets and interstates. “It looks like we're high in the mountains somewhere with some like Class V rapids, which is crazy,” Cody said. Trenton Cody, 29, said he drove over Monday morning to take a look at the effect the floodwaters were having on the lake's dam. “As the rain stopped, the water started to recede pretty quick,” Neal said.Īt White Rock Lake in Dallas, where the water level has been low through the baking summer months, people with umbrellas and water-proof jackets braved the rain Monday morning to watch the deluge transform the lake’s previously dry concrete spillway into what looked like a roaring river. “We had to get to them by boat and pull them to safety,” said Neal, who added that others chose to stay in their flooded homes. Fire Chief Eric Neal said they rescued four people from one flooded home and one person from another.
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In Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb where last month a grass fire that started in a tinder-dry open field damaged over two dozen homes, officials on Monday rescued people from flooded homes. A 60-year-old woman was killed in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite when flood waters from South Mesquite Creek swept her vehicle from Texas 352 westbound at Interstate 635, officials said.ĭallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, as presiding officer of the Dallas County commissioners, declared a disaster had occurred in the county and requested federal and state assistance for affected individuals. “There was quite a bit of variation in the rainfall totals,” Barnes said.Īt least one fatality was blamed on the downpours as emergency responders across the area reported responding to hundreds of high-water calls. By Monday afternoon, the rain had moved out of the area, she said. “We’ve been in drought conditions, so the ground soaked up a lot of it but when you get that much rain over that short a period of time, it’s certainly going to cause flooding, and that’s what we saw, definitely in the urban areas here,” Huckaby said.Īcross the area, rainfall amounts ranged from less than 1 inch (3 centimeters) to over 15 inches (38 centimeters), said National Weather Service meteorologist Sarah Barnes.