{"id":3880,"date":"2019-09-20T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:24:25","slug":"worse-than-hurricane-harvey-at-least-2-dead-as-imelda-overwhelms-texas-with-incredibly-dangerous-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/09\/20\/worse-than-hurricane-harvey-at-least-2-dead-as-imelda-overwhelms-texas-with-incredibly-dangerous-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Worse than Hurricane Harvey&#8217;: At least 2 dead as Imelda overwhelms Texas with&#8217; incredibly dangerous&#8217; flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A swath of East Texas remained under a flash flood watch early Friday as the remnants of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/09\/18\/tropical-storm-imelda-swamps-houston-texas-rain-flooding\/2361304001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tropical Depression Imelda<\/a>&nbsp;drifted north after killing at least two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rainfall intensity began to weaken late Thursday, the National Weather Service said, ending a day of about 1,700 combined rescues and evacuations in Harris County alone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the county&#8217;s&nbsp;4.7 million residents, which includes Houston, might not see waters recede until the weekend, officials said. Authorities planned to work to clear freeways of abandoned vehicles&nbsp;overnight, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Jefferson County, a&nbsp;19-year-old man drowned and was electrocuted while trying to move his horse during a lightning storm, Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokesperson Crystal Holmes said. A man&nbsp;also died after being rescued from a submerged van, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheriffEd_HCSO\/status\/1174829989759455232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 40 inches of rain drenched Jefferson County in the past three days, the National Weather Service office in Houston said, making Imelda&nbsp;the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swath of East Texas remained under a flash flood watch early Friday as the remnants of&nbsp;Tropical Depression Imelda&nbsp;drifted north after killing at least two people. Rainfall intensity began to weaken late Thursday, the National Weather Service said, ending a day of about 1,700 combined rescues and evacuations in Harris County alone.&nbsp; Some of the county&#8217;s&nbsp;4.7 million residents, which includes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/09\/20\/worse-than-hurricane-harvey-at-least-2-dead-as-imelda-overwhelms-texas-with-incredibly-dangerous-flooding\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}