Houston: Torrential rain left large parts of Houston submerged Tuesday and trapped fans at an NBA basketball game, in savage weather that has killed nearly 20 people in the United States and Mexico.
The southern US states of Texas and Oklahoma, and far northern Mexico, have borne the brunt of several days of wild weather, including tornadoes, which have destroyed homes, seen rivers swell to record levels and left cars submerged on highways.
More than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of heavy rain fell in just a few hours in the Texas city of Houston, triggering the worst flooding there in at least a decade and stranding at an arena spectators who had gone to watch a Houston Rockets basketball game on Monday night.
One person died overnight in the flooding in the city, local media reported.
"We had a torrential downpour as the game was ending and a lot of folks were asked to stay until the rain let up and there was localized street flooding," Parker told CNN.
One person was already confirmed dead there and two more died in Oklahoma, which is located to the north of Texas.
A savage twister roared through the Mexican border town of Ciudad Acuna at dawn Monday, killing at least 13 people and flattening hundreds of homes in a deadly six-second blast of carnage, officials said.
The southern US states of Texas and Oklahoma, and far northern Mexico, have borne the brunt of several days of wild weather, including tornadoes, which have destroyed homes, seen rivers swell to record levels and left cars submerged on highways.
More than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of heavy rain fell in just a few hours in the Texas city of Houston, triggering the worst flooding there in at least a decade and stranding at an arena spectators who had gone to watch a Houston Rockets basketball game on Monday night.
One person died overnight in the flooding in the city, local media reported.
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"We had a torrential downpour as the game was ending and a lot of folks were asked to stay until the rain let up and there was localized street flooding," Parker told CNN.
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One person was already confirmed dead there and two more died in Oklahoma, which is located to the north of Texas.
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A savage twister roared through the Mexican border town of Ciudad Acuna at dawn Monday, killing at least 13 people and flattening hundreds of homes in a deadly six-second blast of carnage, officials said.
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