Houston Power Outages in wake of heavy KC-area rains

Hurricane IKE made landfall in southern Texas around 2:10 am local time Saturday near Galveston, packing winds of 110 miles per hour, just shy of Category 3 strength, shuttering the essential oil facilities and threaten to destroy the cities along the Gulf of Mexico.

The storm was expected to move northwest at 13 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. Newswires reported thousands of homes and public buildings were flooded, roads made impassable, washouts, and widespread power outages, which affect approximately 1.3 million customers.

The authorities were allegedly concerned about the security of an estimated 140000 people in four counties near where the storm made landfall had submitted a mandatory evacuation orders and decided to stay home.

North, Missouri River, the problems also appeared to leave a little earlier this morning. Still, water followed over some roads and sidestreets. In Platte County, Missouri 45 was closed for water Farley, and Z Highway was shut down just west of Edgerton. Kansas 16 was closed when the water is Leavenworth-Jefferson County Line. Kansas 5 was closed near the Nine-Mile Creek near Leavenworth water plant.

Harper and Marion counties in Kansas experienced torrential rain and floods that officials needed to barricade roads.

RAINS contributed to the accident one-190th Road between Marion and Hillsboro, when a vehicle hydroplaned, slid off the road and then rear-ended another vehicle. No one was injured, according to Marion County Sheriff Lee Becker.

In Newton, rescuers had to pull a driver in the vehicle, which was stranded high water on Friday morning at Second Street and Manchester, a Harvey County dispatcher. Kansas 15, south of Newton, and a handful of county roads were barricaded because of water and roads.

It includes Matt Gerard, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service, Dodge City, rain in the form of moisture from Tropical Storm Lowell, the Pacific Ocean, just off Mexico, entered through the north-west of Oklahoma and Kansas to combine a cold front, stretched from Hays, Garden City, Elkhart.