Record-setting rainfall brought severe flooding to south Texas the last week of March, leading to hundreds of water rescues and at least 3 deaths. Harlingen alone received over 21 inches in one week. The 5-foot-deep river that runs through the city grew to 30 feet (9.1 m) deep, higher than it has ever been.

In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. Counsels on Health, p. 461