While Windsor-Essex experiences heavy rain on Monday night, even worse weather is battering those in the Lone Star State.
A St. Clair College graduate, originally from Texas and now back living in Austin, says everyone in the state is experiencing some impact from now Tropical Storm Harvey, which started out as a hurricane.
Kristen Faye lived in Windsor from 2006 to 2010 and says the Austin area is just at the edge of the tropical storm and is getting a lot of rain.
Faye says some parts of the city are potential flood zones.
"We've been accommodating people who evacuated and then there are some lower lying areas in Austin that are prone to flooding and so people in those areas were preparing for that with sandbags and that kind of thing."
Faye adds, people in the worst hit areas are traveling to Austin.
"People here are welcoming family, I have a lot of friends whose families are staying with them and are still unable to return to places on the coast because of flooding on the highway and because power has not been restored to hundreds of homes and neighborhoods."
Heavy rain and flooding in Houston suburb from Hurricane Harvey. (Photo courtesy iSock/Citysqwirl)
Windsor resident Milica Avdalovic is in Houston with her father who is receiving cancer treatment.
She says they had no idea what they were in for.
"We were just honestly expecting to have nice really hot weather and all the news channels were going crazy talking about Hurricane Harvey and how Houston is going to be really badly hit. So we went to the grocery store to go get water. We went to three major grocery stores, there was no water anywhere."
Avdalovic says it's been very chaotic.
"This hotel is completely sold out. They have all their workers living here, currently, because it's unsafe for them to get to their homes. People have been losing their homes, their vehicles, all kinds of stuff. There's tons of people throughout surrounding counties that have come to stay here because their houses are gone."
Flooding shown in Houston, Texas (Photo courtesy of Milica Avdalovic)
Avdalovic adds, the community is coming together to help those in need.
"People are losing their homes and it's really sad, but at the same time it's nice to see people that are out there helping other people out in this time. There's a network of people out there trying to help people out. Prime, simple example of people having good hearts at a time of crisis like this."
The storm is expected to hit Houston with more rain in the coming days as rescue efforts continue in the city.
The city's mayor, Sylvester Turner, says police have rescued more than 3,000 people during the storm.
Hurricane Harvey has already dumped an estimated 15-trillion gallons of water on the State of Texas.
- with files from AM800's Zander Broeckel