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Saturday’s storms left at least 150 motorists needing rescues from the Houston Fire Department.
“At last count, we did 150 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.” said HFD spokesman Jay Evans. “People just drive off into it and they don’t realize how deep it is and the car stalls.”
Evans said the department dispatched dump trucks to south Houston where the storms were most severe in case neighborhoods had to be evacuated, but that was not needed. He said no fatalities were reported connected to the deluge.
Bands of rain began blowing across the area Saturday afternoon dropping as much as 8 inches of water around Missouri City, Stafford and Sugar Land, said National Weather Service staff meteorologist Patrick Blood.
“There was quite a disparity between the northern and the southern parts of the county,” Blood said. “We had pretty good totals especially in the southern end.”
He said pockets of Harris County saw 7 to 8 inches of rain, and many parts of town received 4 inches or more.
At Bush Intercontinental Airport in northern Harris County, however, the rain total was only about a quarter of an inch.
(Read more of this story at Chron.com)
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