 Some 2.5 million Texas homes and businesses are without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us. CBS News Texas meteorologist Scott Padgett. Some spots 9 inches to near a foot of rain down near Houston and Barrel as it weakens overnight to a tropical depression, then a post-tropical cyclone will affect 11 states with flooding rains, maybe 4 to 6 inches of rain as it continues that northeasterly track over the next few days.