A car is submerged by flood waters along U.S. 171 in Moss Bluff, LA on October 28th, 2006

(Picture courtesy of Lake Charles American Press)

A strong storm system brought yet another heavy rain event to Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana from Wednesday October 25th through Friday October 27th.  This latest system is one of several that has brought widespread heavy rainfall and flooding to the region in October 2006.

Most locations across Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana received between 1 and 5 inches of rainfall from this event.  However, a 25 mile wide by 150 mile long area, stretching from near Sour Lake, Texas to around Port Barre, Louisiana, received substantially higher amounts of rainfall with this system. In fact, locations within this swath received three-day rainfall totals ranging from 7 to 16 inches.

With grounds already saturated from the heavy rainfall of the past two weeks, this latest heavy rainfall event once again spawned widespread flooding across parts of Southeast Texas, Southwest Louisiana, and South-Central Louisiana.  Numerous homes and businesses were damaged by the flood waters, with several road and school closures across the area.  This heavy rainfall also resulted in some area rivers rising to levels not seen in many years.