The weather in Texas - Aug 17, 2007

Around 7:45PM

And around 11:45PM

Been raining & thundering like crazy all day and all evening. Been hearing of lots of closed roads & flooding.

My street looked like a river earlier, the water was all the way across and going over the curbs into yards. I think my Camaro which was parked on the side of the street probably has water inside it.

All the lakes, creeks, and rivers around here are already full so I don't know where all this rain is going to run off to... and they say Texas might get hit by Hurricane Dean next week... great... oh and just now the rain started picking up again as I wrote this...

More than foot of rain floods Texas - (AP - Yahoo News)

GEORGETOWN, Texas - Torrential storms flooded parts of central Texas early Wednesday, stranding dozens of people on roofs, in trees and in vehicles, and the weather was so treacherous that some helicopter rescue attempts had to be abandoned.

The worst flooding was in Williamson, Lampasas and Burnet counties in the Texas Hill Country northwest of Austin.

"We got hard facts of 18-plus inches of rain in a couple of those places since midnight," Austin-Travis County emergency medical services spokesman Warren Hassinger said just after 7 a.m. More rain was expected, the National Weather Service said.

There were no immediate reports of deaths Wednesday, but it was the latest in a series of storms blamed for at least 11 deaths in the past week in Texas.

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