NEXT UP: CAN EATING CAN EASE HUNGER PANGS?

Flooding rains could ease extended drought, experts say

The Associated Press DALLAS — Heavy rainfall that flooded roads, drenched property and swept a visiting college student from China to her death Sunday night may have eased a chronic drought in North Texas, experts said. As floodwaters subsided Monday, authorities were still assessing the damage from storms that dumped as much as 8 inches of rain on parts of the Dallas area this week-end.