Dallas County seen quick, developing scattered thunderstorms on Sunday. These storms produced a lot of rain in a short period of time. Though they dissipated by sunset, they caused flash flooding.
An Old East Dallas under-construction townhouse complex collapsed near Munger and Annex. In North Dallas, the ferocious wind peeled the bricks off the facade of an apartment building, crashing them onto a car parked at the base of the wall. No one was in the car.
Plano reports at least a half-dozen power poles were taken down along 15th Street. In Dallas, East of Central Expressway, there was flooding in the M Streets neighborhood. More flooding was reported in Turtle Creek.
Around 4 p.m. Sunday about 120,000 Oncor customers were without power. As of 9:30 p.m. there are still about 1.800 outages, affecting almost 100,000 people according to Oncor's outage map. By 5 a.m. that number was just under 54,000.
Sunday evening, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson reported the city's Transportation Department counted 132 signals on flash and 148 without power. Johnson also confirms that Dallas firefighters had some high-water rescue calls during the worst of the flooding but no one was reported injured.
State-wide, there is heavy storm damage in Big Bend National Park. Sunday's rain damaged two popular park attractions ahead of the always busy Labor Day holiday. A section of switchbacks on the Lost Mine Trail collapsed, forcing park rangers to close the trail until crews can assess it and make repairs. Also closed is the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive south of the Mule Ears Overlook. A stretch of pavement broke off.
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