Floods and devastation: tropical storm Nicholas threatens southern U.S. with heavy rainfall and winds

Tropical Storm Nicholas Threatens Gulf Coast With Heavy Rain, Says ABC.

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Tropical storm Nicholas was pushing up the Gulf Coast on Monday, threatening to result in heavy rain and flooding in coastal areas of Texas, Mexico and storm-hit Louisiana.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Nicholas is intensifying, creating strong winds at 95 km per hour. It was traveling north-northwest at 22 kilometers per hour on a projected route that was to travel off the coast of South Texas later on Monday, and then along the coast along the coast of south or central Texas by Monday evening.

Nicholas was located about 75 km southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande and 325 km south of Port O'Connor, Texas, as of Monday morning.

The data was sent from Port Aransas to Freeport, Texas. Much of the state's coastline was on tropical storm warning as the storm was expected to bring heavy rain that could cause flash floods throughout the area, especially in cities.

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Total rainfall is expected to be up to 10 inches 25 centimeters in Texas and southwest Louisiana, with an isolated maximum rainfall of 50 centimeters in coastal Texas from Sunday night to midweek.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state has deployed rescue teams and resources in the Houston area and along the Gulf Coast.

“This is a storm that could bring heavy rain, as well as wind and possibly flooding to various regions of the Gulf Coast. We strongly encourage you to heed local weather warnings,” Abbott said in a video message.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency Sunday night ahead of a storm in a state that is still recovering from Hurricane Ida, last year's Hurricane Laura and historic flooding.

“The most serious threat to Louisiana is in the southwest part of the state, where recovery from Hurricane Laura and May flooding continues. The area may experience heavy rain and flash flooding. However, it is also likely that heavy rain is expected throughout southern Louisiana this week, including in areas recently impacted by Hurricane Ida,” Edwards said.

The storm was expected to bring the heaviest rains west of where Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana two weeks ago. While forecasters did not expect Louisiana to be hit by strong winds again, meteorologist Bob Henson of Yale Climate Connections predicted that rains could continue to hit places where the hurricane destroyed homes, paralyzed electrical and water infrastructure, and killed at least 26 people.

“Where Ida hit, southeast Louisiana could see up to 1 cm of rain,” Henson said in an email.

There are just over 110 consumers across Louisiana, according to poweroutage.us. were left without electricity at the beginning of Monday.

Meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana predicts that the storm will slowly move up the coast, which could cause heavy rains over several days.

“Heavy rain and flash flooding are the biggest threats to our region,” he said.

Although Ida had minimal impact on Lake Charles, the city suffered multiple blows in 2020 from Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta, a winter storm in February, and historic flooding this spring.

"We're still a very broken city," Lake Charles Mayor Nick Hunter said.

He said the city takes the storm threat as seriously as all tropical systems do.

“Hope and prayer is not a good game plan,” Hunter said.

In Cameron County, coastal Louisiana, Scott Trahan is still completing repairs to his home, which was damaged by last year's Hurricane Laura, which left about 70cm water. He hopes to finish it by Christmas, and many people in his area have moved instead of rebuilding.

“If you get your ass whipped four times, you can't get back up. You’re going to go somewhere else,” Trahan said.

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Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said via Twitter that Nicholas is the 14th storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Only 4 other years since 1966 have had 12 or more named storms by September 14: 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2020.

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