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[h=4]Storms bring rain to La., wind down in Texas[/h]A flash flood watch issued for parts of New Orleans and Baton Rouge until Monday afternoon.
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J.B. Neckar, right, and brother Johnny Neckar, left, paddle their mother, Gelene Neckar, center, from her flooded home near Downsville, Texas, on Oct. 24. Heavy rains have forced parts of the Brazos River out of its banks, endangering homes in the small community just outside Waco, Texas, according to the Waco Tribune Herald.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Jerry Larson, Waco Tribune Herald via AP
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The rain-swollen Trinity River is seen with the city skyline in the background Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Dallas. Southeast Texas was bracing for heavy rain late Saturday and into Sunday as the remnants of Hurricane Patricia combined with a powerful storm system that's been moving across Texas, flooding roads and causing a freight train to derail.(Photo: Tony Gutierrez, AP)
Louisiana braced for more rain Sunday after the storm that dumped more than a foot of rain on Texas moved east.
A flash flood watch was issued for parts of New Orleans and Baton Rouge through Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Some areas around New Orleans could get up to 8 inches of rain.
More than 3.2 inches of rain had fallen in Baton Rouge by Sunday morning, while nearly 4 inches fell on New Orleans, the weather service said. A possible tornado in St. Rose hit around 10:30 a.m., causing minor damage to trees and a carport, the weather service said.
In Texas, flood warnings for Houston and Galveston expired Sunday morning as remnants from Hurricane Patricia dissipated and rain in that area eased.
The Houston area saw heavy rain for much of Saturday afternoon and early Sunday, causing various high-water locations and impassable roads. Bayous started to crest around 3 a.m. Sunday.
"There will be localized flooding in Houston, primarily street flooding," Houston Mayor Annise Parker warned. She added that residents of the city should be "prepared to be patient."
The potential for a repeat of flooding and devastating property damage in Texas loomed five months after torrential spring storms caused more than 30 deaths and left large swaths of the state underwater.
That Memorial Day weekend weather system brought an astonishing amount of rainfall, with some isolated areas receiving more than 20 inches. Homes were either damaged or swept away by river water southwest of Austin. About 1,500 homes in the Houston area sustained flood damage, and neighborhoods throughout the state were cut off by rising waters. Little rain had fallen since then.
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A powerful storm system rumbled through Texas on Saturday, flooding roads and causing traffic woes and other problems as parts of the state braced for the remnants of Hurricane Patricia to arrive. (Oct. 24) AP
Houston Fire Department Capt. Ruy Lozano told KHOU-TV that the department made at least 28 water rescues overnight, which is lower than the department had anticipated. Lozano said most people did decide to stay off the roads during the flooding rains.
In one case, a rescue boat was dispatched early Sunday to retrieve a person in a flooded area near the downtown aquarium. The man had taken refuge in a tree from the rising waters.
"He seemed fine," District Chief David Swanson said after the rescue. "He was a homeless newcomer to Houston who picked the wrong night and the wrong place to fall asleep under a bridge."
The storm triggered flash flood warnings and tornado watches, a voluntary evacuation call for the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston and the closure of underwater roads in Houston.
Patricia, the most powerful hurricane ever measured, was downgraded to a tropical depression after making landfall in Mexico on Friday.
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The storm system that dumped so much rain on parts of Texas since Friday also caused the derailment of a Union Pacific freight train on Saturday near Corsicana, about 50 miles south of Dallas. Jeff DeGraff, a railroad spokesman, told the Associated Press that a creek overflowed and washed away the tracks. The two crewmembers swam to safety and nobody was hurt, he said. One locomotive and several rail cars loaded with gravel went into the water and were partly submerged, DeGraff said.
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In San Antonio, a man walking his dog before dawn Saturday was swept into a flooded drainage ditch and disappeared, fire officials said. Rescuers say the man was apparently tried to rescue his dog, who was later found safe.
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