FORNEY, Texas — Kaufman County officials and local utilities spent the majority of Monday monitoring weather and road conditions as rain continues to fall across the area with a possible 2 to 4 inches still forecasted to come.
FORNEY, Texas — Kaufman County officials and local utilities spent the majority of Monday monitoring weather and road conditions as rain continues to fall across the area with a possible 2 to 4 inches still forecasted to come.
Kaufman County’s department of emergency management tells inForney.com that the following areas have been impacted by flooding and reported to their office: County Road (CR) 120, CR 147, CR 243, CR 133 at the bridge and road collapse near the College Mound Volunteer Fire Department, CR 4011, CR 4013, FM 740, W. Mulberry St. & Jefferson St. in the city of Kaufman and Sunset Drive.
Portions of the frontage road of US Hwy 80 were closed by Forney Police this evening.
“We are currently monitoring all streams, creek and dams in the county,” Steve Howie, the county’s emergency management coordinator said. “We can expect another 2-4 inches of rain before it ends on Tuesday.”
This weekend kept Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative (TVEC) crews busy restoring power for customers affected by storms.
“This was primarily scattered small outages typical of this type of weather,” according to Don Johnson, the public information officer for TVEC. “We did have one large outage in the area surrounding Seven Points that affected about 2,600 members, some for more than two hours, on Sunday night. That outage was the result of a lightning hit on a substation transformer.”
TVEC says its Sunday crews restored 68 outages affecting about 3,040 members across all of the TVEC service area, which includes parts of Kaufman, Van Zandt, Henderson, Anderson, Hunt and Dallas counties.
“TVEC crews and dispatchers are on-call 24/7 to respond and repair any damage as quickly and safely as possible,” Johnson said. “We are always watching the weather of course, as storms can cause outages for our members.”
According to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, temperatures will be well below normal Monday and Tuesday with high in 40s to low 50s, with wind chill values in the 30s and 40s. Breezy northernly winds of 15 to 20 mph are expected through early Tuesday morning. Wind gusts could reach up to 25 mph in some areas.
Widespread rainfall with accumulations of 1 to 6 inches is forecasted through Wednesday morning. Some river flooding and flooding of low-lying areas is expected. The area remains under a flood watch through Tuesday evening.
