 Compounding residents' discomfort was a new band of rainstorms that swept through the Houston area. The rain provided brief relief from the heat before temperatures were expected to creep back above 90 degrees over the weekend. Meanwhile, officials said a second person has died in Vermont in the flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. The storm dumped heavy rain on Vermont, washing away much of an apartment building, knocking out bridges and cutting off towns, and re-traumatizing a state still recovering from catastrophic floods that hit a year ago to the day.