{"id":37286,"date":"2025-03-28T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/texas-border-residents-rescued-from-homes-as-rains-cause-severe-flooding\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:00:52","slug":"texas-border-residents-rescued-from-homes-as-rains-cause-severe-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/texas-border-residents-rescued-from-homes-as-rains-cause-severe-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas border residents rescued from homes as rains cause severe flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harlingen receives more than 21in of rain this week, with 200 people still waiting to be rescued<\/p>\n<p>A day after severe storms along the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-mexico-border\">Texas-Mexico<\/a> border, crews were rescuing residents trapped in their homes by drenching rains, which also forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down an airport.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Harlingen said their city received more than 21 inches (53cm) of rain this week, with the heaviest rainfall on Thursday causing severe flooding that had authorities rescuing more than 200 residents, with another 200 people still waiting to be rescued.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/28\/texas-border-flooding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlingen receives more than 21in of rain this week, with 200 people still waiting to be rescued A day after severe storms along the Texas-Mexico border, crews were rescuing residents trapped in their homes by drenching rains, which also forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down an airport. Officials in &#8230; <a title=\"Texas border residents rescued from homes as rains cause severe flooding\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/texas-border-residents-rescued-from-homes-as-rains-cause-severe-flooding\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas border residents rescued from homes as rains cause severe flooding\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}