Texas drenched by tropical storm
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Hurricane Humberto brings heavy rain to already sodden Texas before  weakening and moving into Louisiana.
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RALEIGH, NC Aug. 30, 2004 - Central North Carolina was drenched Monday by the remains of Tropical Storm Gaston, the fourth named storm to strike the state this month, as thousands of customers in the Carolinas waited for their power to be restored.
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Tropical Storm Lorenzo, forecast to  become a hurricane before slamming into Mexico, dumped heavy  rain on the country&#39;s Gulf coast on Thursday but was unlikely  to affect oil production.
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Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety.
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Torrents of rain flooded homes in central Texas, forcing residents to flee for higher ground as downpours were set to continue into Thursday, media and forecasters said.
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Up to 15 inches of rain fell in this south Texas town Sunday morning, causing flooding that forced people from their homes and blocked a highway.
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The tropical storm brings the threat of heavy rains and flash floods to coastal regions of North and South Carolina.
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GAINESVILLE, Texas  - Residents emerged from their homes in a flood-stricken north Texas town on Monday as waters that killed a 4-year-old girl and at least one other person began to recede throughout the soaked region.
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Dallas is looking a lot like Seattle these days. Drenching rains pounded the city and north-central Texas again on Wednesday, forcing the precautionary evacuation of thousands of residents from several communities to the west of Fort Worth that were threatened with possible flooding.
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Lashing storms dumped up to 18 inches of rain on parts of central Texas, flooding several towns and stranding dozens of people on rooftops, cars and in trees Wednesday.
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By Rose Ybarra, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  May 29--Memorial Day activities quickly turned soggy in Southeast Texas Monday as scattered showers put a damper on trips to the beach and family picnics.
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Hundreds of people spent the night as evacuees in central and southeastern Texas because of flooding caused by days of torrential rain that was blamed for one death.
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Tropical Storm Humberto became Hurricane Humberto early on Thursday as it neared the Texas coast with maximum winds of 80 mph (128 kph).
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HIGH ISLAND, Texas Sept. 23, 2004 - Making an encore appearance in the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm, Ivan swirled toward the Texas coast Thursday with a potential for up to 10 inches of rain over the weekend.
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By JIM ELLIS  HOMOSOSSA SPRINGS, Fla. - Tropical Storm Barry weakened into a tropical depression as it moved through Tampa Bay on Saturday, bringing nearly 7 inches of rain to parts of the drought-parched region.
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Hurricane Humberto missed Houston but ravaged the Beaumont-Port Arthur area in southeastern Texas on Thursday, blowing down trees, knocking out power and interrupting refinery operations.
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WEATHER:The slow-moving hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the state, knocking out power, ripping off roofs and dropping drenching rain.