thank you, joe, from ixtapa. and now the dallas where some areas got more than 18 inches of rain. we go the charles hadlock who is right there with you, and wow! look at the flooding. where are you, charles someis well, you have actually been here before. this is the edge of the trinity river just as it passes downtown dallas. normally the river banks are e beyond the trees and the bank full is at 30 feet, and the today, 35, and it is expected to climb to 37 feet later today. the good news is that the weather front causing all of this creating the lift that dropped the rainfall here is now past the dallas-ft. worth area, but the bad news is that it is not out of the state which is the concern. all of the rainfall was created by a system not associated with hurricane patricia but a low pressure system and as it makes its way out of the state of texas, the remnants of patricia come into the state, and the question is how much interaction
was some of the well populated areas like manzanillo and puerto vallarta and folks unable to get out of town yesterday because the flights were canceled, so they had to stay put and hunker down. so far what we are hearing not extraordinary damage there in those places, but there is destruction of more typical roofs blowing off of homes in those areas and the coastal areas, and the cleanup is beginning, but a lot of people are feeling it could have been so much worse considering how powerful the storm was reaching 200-mile-an-hour winds earlier in the day friday right before reaching land, alex. joe, hey, any idea how extensive the early warning system was for the folks in the remote areas? i was reading an article where a man who lives 15 miles inland was talking about people out on the roads who were completely unaware of what was coming their way. you know what is interesting is that in some of the remote
canceled and it is not over yet, because the rain is coming in two places from houston and we have the rain coming in from patricia and gulf moisture and it is a recipe for a lot of rain escalating through the evening hours, and straight through sunday. and 6 inches as we go through the next few days in houston, but closer to louisiana, this is working east. so we will see the threat for flooding into southwest louisiana as well, ap then back out towards dallas, it will start to get better, but we have had reports of a dangerous situation there in terms of the flooding. but moving forward to the night, and sunday, this is the heaviest rain where you see here in white, it is going to be better, but we need to get through sunday and monday, alex before we see the improvements. all right. thank you, bonnie. we will check in with dallas in a moment and you again certainly. patricia hit the mexican coast with 165-mile-an-hour winds, and joe fryers is with us