(August 25, 2008)—Residents of deep South Texas awoke Monday to another flash flood watch after a weekend of torrential rains swamped the already saturated region.
More showers were moving across the border from Mexico.
Jose Garcia, the chief of police and fire in the Rio Grande Valley town of Roma, said Roma received another four inches of rain Sunday, causing new flooding in areas that had begun to dry out and sending nearly 60 residents scurrying back to a shelter.
Several people had to be rescued from their homes, he said.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Starr, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and Zapata counties until Monday night and predicted as many as four more inches of rain from storms expected to begin by midmorning.
The forecast attributed the rains to "abundant tropical moisture" and disturbances in the middle layers of the atmosphere over northeast Mexico.
It has rained off and on for more than a week in an area already sopping from Hurricane Dolly.
More than 13 inches of rain fell one week ago in and around Roma, a town of about 10,000 residents 210 miles south of San Antonio.
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