Videos show roads blocked, cars partly submerged due to flash floods in Texas

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• Aug 23, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

Videos and pictures of the flooded roads and cars that were driving through them overnight have been widely shared online.

Digital
Desk: Hundreds of people were forced to relocate to safer areas during a stormy
weekend in Texas, United States, due to flash floods and severe rain. In the
most recent weather disasters to affect national parks in the United States, at
least one hiker was reported to have been washed away in the floods and was
still missing on Monday.

After
a protracted period of severe drought, Texas experienced flash floods days
later. In the state's normally tinder-dry southwest, several inches of rain
fell over the course of two days. Videos and pictures of the flooded roads and
cars that were driving through them overnight have been widely shared online.

When you come
across flooded roads, turn around so you don't drown. In cars, flood fatalities
are most common. Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded
roads," said the National Weather Service.

 Here are the top developments:

  Parts
of Texas were devastated by a quick transition from a severe drought to a flood
situation, which overnight resulted in more than 50 water-related crises.

 Many
hikers were left stranded for many hours by the swelling waters as the flash
floods tore through numerous national parks in the US, including Zion in Utah
and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. In other videos, students in Arizona were
seen being rescued from a school bus that had become stranded due to rising
water

The
NWS anticipated floods in certain areas of Mississippi this week in addition to
up to seven inches of rain in northern Texas.

 The
week leading up to the rainstorm was unusually dry, with less than an inch of
rain falling in July. However, the unexpected rainstorm made Monday's rainfall
the second-wettest on record for the region.

 More
rain is expected throughout the week, according to forecasters. As of Monday
night, several counties to the south and east were still on flash flood alert,
but Dallas and Fort Worth are currently under flood warnings.