 in Lindenville. The catastrophic rainfall dumped on the state comes exactly a year after central Vermont was hit hard when around nine inches of rain fell in a 48-hour period. Barrel made landfall in Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane. More than a million Texas homes and businesses are still without power, and utility officials in Houston say half a million of their customers still won't have electricity next week. Fox's Tanya J. Powers, meanwhile, in the West, record heat is creating dry conditions, feeding wildfires.