Still, Imelda wasn't projected to have anywhere near the impact that Hurricane Dorian had on the Bahamas earlier this month but it did cause flooding, tremendous amounts of it in Texas.
These warnings have sounded against a terrifying backdrop of climate chaos: Europe's rivers running dry, apocalyptic flooding in Pakistan, savage wildfires, heat and drought across the world.
Parts of Mexico, roughly a 300-mile stretch along the Baja California Peninsula, were also under hurricane warning with " locally catastrophic flash and urban flooding, " according to the Hurricane Center.
Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency is warning fatalities caused by already deadly and damaging severe flooding in the country will increase in September and October, the usual peak period for rainfall.