Severe thunderstorms early Thursday morning produced three to six inches of rain and a variety of issues.
Easterwood Airport received 3.58 inches of rain from 1 p.m. Wednesday through 5 a.m. Thursday.
WTAW listeners in Brazos and surrounding counties reported a range between 2.4 and 5.4 inches.
The Brazos County road and bridge department tweets its list of road closures.
Robertson County road closures are available through the sheriff’s office Facebook page.
Grimes County road closures are available through the sheriff’s office Facebook page.
The Madison County office of emergency management Facebook page is asking for damage reports.
College Station firefighters responded to two high water rescues. Both were successful…one on Harvey Road east of the freeway and the other on Bird Pond Road between Rock Prairie and Highway 30.
A College Station police officer on patrol stalled their Tahoe in high water from the creek north of our office building that went out of its banks. Their patrol vehicle had to be towed. See the high water in the dark and how quickly the water receded on WTAW’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
BTU crews spent more than 12 hours restoring power to customers north and east of Bryan.
The Navasota Valley Electric Cooperative, whose service area includes portions of Brazos, Robertson, Leon, Madison, Limestone, Freestone, Falls, Hill, and McLennan counties, had a lightning strike at their office that damaged their main computer server. The co-op’s Facebook page said the only tools they had to respond to outages were their phones, paper maps, and information provided by customers.
According to the city of Hearne’s Facebook page, power was out to most customers between midnight and five, winds were strong enough to move the city’s Christmas tree from the middle to the side of the street and down the block…with the tree remaining upright the entire way. There is also damage to at least one building in Hearne, and residents are being asked to move downed tree limbs to the curb for pickup.
The Associated Press reported turbulence diverted an American Eagle flight from Mexico to land in Austin instead of Dallas. Some of the 79 passengers on board requested medical attention. Two of the passengers were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The jet was not damaged.
