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Extreme weather that battered parts of the Midwest and caused death and destruction over the weekend turned to Texas overnight and will move into the Lower Mississippi Valley Monday, bringing the risk of storms and flash flooding. The storms that have inundated southeastern Texas will continue through that state and into Louisiana Monday, where there is a 15% chance of excessive rainfall leading to flash flooding, according to a National Weather Service forecast posted before 4 a.m. ET.
Tens of thousands of customers were without power as of 6 a.m. ET, including 50,000 in Louisiana, 38,000 in Texas and more than 6,000 in Oklahoma, according to PowerOutage.us. Social media posts showed cars driving through flooded streets in Trinity as heavy rain fell and thunder flashed across the sky. The National Weather Service in Houston said the flash flooding was potentially 'life-threatening,' with between 4 and 8 inches of rain falling in some parts of southeast Texas.
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