Heavy rains caused flooding in North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Work Metroplex and Kaufman County. NBC 5’s Keenan Willard reports on the ongoing severe weather.
Rainfall ended early Sunday afternoon but left behind many locations with high water and some homes taking on significant flood damage.
George Hinkle lives at the end of Sunset Drive, just outside the Kaufman city limits, where a nearby reservoir did not drain quickly enough to prevent floodwaters from spilling out to neighborhoods.
“This is a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away, doesn’t seem to be going away at all,” Hinkle said.
NBC 5 first introduced viewers to the Hinkle family in October when they were forced to escape rising flood waters just months after buying what they thought would be their retirement home.
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Hinkle says his family has been living in Forney for the last six months and were not at their Kaufman Co property when the latest flood took hold Friday when 7.5 inches of rain fell.
“My neighbor here, we’re going to have to see what we can do about getting her some sandbags just to keep her property from flooding.”
It’s the second significant flash flooding event since October, when two people died after their vehicle was swept away.
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Hinkle said his family lost all of their therapy animals in the flood six months ago.
“They become parts of your family, all of them are gone,” Hinkle said. “We don’t have any of them left.”
It was just one area impacted by a weekend of severe storms in North Texas.
In Dallas, drone footage captured by NBC 5 showed roads flooding north of White Rock Lake, and multiple cars could be seen driving through the high waters on Sunday.
A tornado watch to the southeast also brought strong rains lashing down in Henderson County.
The Kaufman County Office of Emergency Management told NBC5 that flooding like Hinkle's property experienced can be expected when nearly a foot of rain falls in three days.
Some in this community said they wished they would have known just how much water could rush into this land before making the move there.
“Somebody else buys this property, I'm going to make sure they know that this is what could happen to your property,” Hinkle told NBC 5.
