Several rounds of severe thunderstorms rumbled through Texas and Louisiana yesterday causing some serious flooding, at least two deaths and even spawning a tornado.
Lafayette, LA. received 6.87 inches of rain between midnight and 5pm making it the city’s wettest calendar day since 1995. Lake Charles received a whopping 2.87 inches of rain in one hour. To add insult to injury, rising flood waters caused caskets to float away from their resting places in an Assumption Parish cemetery.
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Workers wade through flood waters to retrieve caskets that have floated away from their graves in a cemetery in Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Commuters in Houston needed to break out the scuba gear, as many feeder roads and parts of I-45 were underwater due to heavy rainfall. This was the latest in a series of soakers for the city, creating soggy ground which was no longer absorb the heavy precipitation, leading to a fair amount of localized flooding. From Memorial Day through yesterday afternoon Hobby Airport logged nearly 7 inches of rain, making it the fifth-wettest May on record at that location.
Oh yeah, and an EF1 tornado tore through Garyville, Louisiana causing property damage near the Marathon Oil refinery….
WOW.