Lower Valley gets brunt of Hermine's rainfall

The lower Rio Grande Valley saw the brunt of Tropical Storm Hermine's rainfall, with radar estimating as much as nine inches falling in parts of Cameron and Willacy counties.

Hermine left all but one block of Raymondville without electricity and ripped roofs off several buildings. A 5-year-old girl was also cut by broken glass when gusts from the storm threw a trampoline through the window of her family's home, said Robert Supulver of Willacy County's emergency operations center.

"It was a lot of wind, a lot of rain coming real fast," Supulver said.

Shelters throughout Rio Grande Valley were on standby but mostly kept their doors shut, and offers for sandbags saw relatively few takers.

In Hidalgo County, however, Hermine passed through without much incident.

Most of Hidalgo and Starr counties escaped Hemine with less than an inch of rainfall overnight.

Tony Peña, Hidalgo County emergency management coordinator, said Tuesday morning Hermine's center mostly exited the Rio Grande Valley along Highway 77 — minimizing the impact felt in the upper Valley. 

"Nothing — light winds and drizzle all night long," Peña said. "We went relatively unscathed on this one, which is good." 

POWER OUT

Widespread power outages were reported early Tuesday morning, with nearly 33,000 places without electricity, according to an online outage map from AEP Texas. 

In Cameron County, there were 27,078 customers without power — a third of AEP Texas customers there.

Willacy County reported 4,442 outages — nearly 80 percent of the customers in the county.

In Hidalgo County, there were 1,402 outages reported — just 0.7 percent of the county's customers. No outages were reported in Starr County.

Check back for updates. 

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.