Tropical Storm Nicholas slows, dumps rain along Gulf Coast

SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicholas slowed to a crawl implicit southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana aft blowing ashore arsenic a hurricane, knocking retired powerfulness to a half-million homes and businesses.

The National Hurricane Center says the tempest made landfall connected the eastbound portion of the Matagorda Peninsula aboriginal Tuesday and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm.

It's drenching Louisiana, which is inactive recovering from Hurricane Ida. Nearly 100,000 radical are inactive without powerfulness successful the state, according to PowerOutage.us. The National Weather Service New Orleans says Nicholas could dump an further 10 inches of rainfall done Thursday.

The tempest besides near a way of harm successful the Houston area. CenterPoint, which provides energy successful Texas, said immoderate radical whitethorn beryllium without powerfulness for up to 5 days owed to the harm from Nicholas.

#Houston-area electrical customers: Due to the extended harm caused by #Nicholas, immoderate customers whitethorn acquisition 4-5 time outages; we expect the bulk of customers volition beryllium restored earlier. Please marque preparations for extended outages conscionable successful case: https://t.co/oxiKsS2uA1 pic.twitter.com/ganYNcuceS

— CenterPoint Energy Alerts (@CNPalerts) September 14, 2021

The tempest inactive has the imaginable for life-threatening flash floods crossed the Deep South, according to the National Hurricane Center.