Heavy rains cause floods
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It was monsoon season in Gilmer this week, with heavy rains causing flash flooding and road closures.
A motorist had to be rescued from her vehicle when it stalled out on Bob-O-Link Road.
The Perryville Fire Dept. advised Union Hill schools Tuesday afternoon that “most roads, even FM roads, are completely blocked” and hazardous to bus traffic in the northwest part of Upshur County.
A dispatcher with the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office said that they had a lot of reports Monday of roads being closed by water.
As of Tuesday morning, only FM 993, in the extreme northern part of the county, remained inundated, he said.
Longtime residents of Upshur County have said that it’s the worst flooding they’ve seen in the county since spring 1966.
CNN even carried reports of flooding in Gilmer.
A National Weather Service spokesman in Shreveport, La., said that the thunderstorms which hit the area, starting about midnight Sunday, were “small storms.”
He said the storms weren’t very big, but that they had a lot of rain and could pour out of water quickly.
No injuries were reported in Upshur County from the storms.
Water broke through the fence at Toney Putman’s house in the West Park subdivision and filled his swimming pool with mud.
According to the National Weather Service, An upper-level low pressure system centered over Northwest Louisiana will continue to enhance shower and thunderstorm development over much of Northeast Texas and “these showers and thunderstorms will be efficient rain producers, and capable of producing locally heavy rainfall over areas that have seen widespread two to six inches of rain, with isolated amount of eight to 12-plus inches of rain, with isolated amounts near six inches, will be possible across the watch area through Wednesday morning.”
A motorist had to be rescued from her vehicle when it stalled out on Bob-O-Link Road.
The Perryville Fire Dept. advised Union Hill schools Tuesday afternoon that “most roads, even FM roads, are completely blocked” and hazardous to bus traffic in the northwest part of Upshur County.
A dispatcher with the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office said that they had a lot of reports Monday of roads being closed by water.
As of Tuesday morning, only FM 993, in the extreme northern part of the county, remained inundated, he said.
Longtime residents of Upshur County have said that it’s the worst flooding they’ve seen in the county since spring 1966.
CNN even carried reports of flooding in Gilmer.
A National Weather Service spokesman in Shreveport, La., said that the thunderstorms which hit the area, starting about midnight Sunday, were “small storms.”
He said the storms weren’t very big, but that they had a lot of rain and could pour out of water quickly.
No injuries were reported in Upshur County from the storms.
Water broke through the fence at Toney Putman’s house in the West Park subdivision and filled his swimming pool with mud.
According to the National Weather Service, An upper-level low pressure system centered over Northwest Louisiana will continue to enhance shower and thunderstorm development over much of Northeast Texas and “these showers and thunderstorms will be efficient rain producers, and capable of producing locally heavy rainfall over areas that have seen widespread two to six inches of rain, with isolated amount of eight to 12-plus inches of rain, with isolated amounts near six inches, will be possible across the watch area through Wednesday morning.”
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