Tropical Storm Nicholas is drenching the Houston metro area as the large storm creeps along the Texas shoreline. The system, which made landfall early Tuesday morning as a hurricane, is expected to drop another 5 to 10 inches of rain on a broad area from the northern Texas coast to the western Florida Panhandle through Thursday.
“Life-threatening flash flooding” is possible, particularly in urban areas, the National Hurricane Center said.
Parts of southern Louisiana could see isolated rain totals of 20 inches, according to the agency.
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