A half-a-foot of rain in three days has gotten 2015 off to a good start after ending 2014 with a deficit amount.

 

However the storm system behind most of the rain didn’t leave the area without causing some havoc, especially with thunderstorms that assaulted the area early Saturday morning.

 

Damage was scattered from small limbs being blown off trees, to large limbs and even trees being blown over, especially in northwest Louisiana.

 

Deep Texas Electric Cooperative’s Brittney Johnson told us at 8 a.m. Saturday some 1,000 member were without power throughout Shelby and San Augustine County.

 

She added crews worked throughout Saturday to restore power.

 

By 5:30 p.m. Saturday, that outage number was down to 150. Ms. Johnson said wet conditions hampered crews being able to get to outage areas more quickly.

 

AEP SWEPCO was especially hit hard with outages in northwest Louisiana with over 3,000 at one time in DeSoto and Sabine Parishes Saturday morning.

 

The National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch Friday evening thru Saturday afternoon. NWS also issued a Flood Warning for the Attoyac River at Chirieno, and Ayish Bayou in San Augustine Saturday morning as both waterways were out of their banks.

 

Flat Fork Creek in Shelby County and other smaller tributaries and low-lying areas reported high water.

 

Checking with law enforcement, there was no reported incidents or road closures associated with flooding.

 

Official Weather Observer Jim Forbes reports 6.26 inches fell in Center from Thursday thru Saturday, while San Augustine Official Weather Observer Tom Johnson had 4.44 inches.

 

A cold start this morning, but the sun returns, and there’s no rain forecast until Friday thru the weekend. Highs will be near 50 today and 60 Tuesday, before another Artic Front will put us well into the deep freeze Wednesday night as lows will be near 22 Thursday morning. Daytime highs Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will struggle to make the low to mid 40s.