At least 100 people taken from apartment complexes in the north part of the city were being sheltered at a shopping mall.
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Sgt. Jim Slack said Wednesday that the boys were “scared but safe” after being rescued by residents using an airboat. The vehicle didn’t make it through.
Authorities say the body of a man has been found inside a truck that drove into high water on a Houston freeway service road.
The Houston Chronicle reported an additional fatality in nearby Austin County.
The YouTube playlist above has more than a dozen videos of the flooding, including drone footage of flooded homes, people kayaking through flooded streets and the usual people driving through flooded roads. The city should also upgrade its building code to mandate elevating structures in flood-prone areas, he said.
In neighboring Waller County, a 56-year-old man was found dead in a submerged vehicle, County Judge Trey Duhon said.
More than a foot of rain pounded much of Houston, Texas Monday as flash flooding forced evacuations and the closure of much of America’s fourth-largest city. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding doze…
An official from the Harris County Flood Control District said that 240 billion gallons of rainwater had fallen in the locality from Sunday-Monday.
So it’s no wonder, then, that the National Weather Service is calling this rain event “historic.”
Rain-soaked Houston was getting no respite from the weather Tuesday, with a flash flood watch extended through the morning and the possibility of thunderstorms all day.
Rescuers said their main concern was to save trapped people, however Houston SPCA rescuers were called in to help the horses. As of 1 p.m. CT, CenterPoint Energy reported there were 6,500 customers without electricity, mostly on the northwest side. And the man wading knee-deep through water after rescuing an armadillo.
“We all knew it was going to rain, but we didn’t know it was going to be this bad”, Emily Sharma said. Some suburban school districts remained closed on Wednesday. More than 1000 flights were cancelled at major Texas airports on Monday due to the storms, it said.
“This is the most I have ever seen in the state of Texas”, Governor Greg Abbott said of the rescues at a news conference, where he declared a state of disaster in nine Texas counties.
Torrential rainfall inundated the Houston area on Monday morning, shutting down the city. Rains continued to fall over the entire region early Tuesday.
The storms were from the same system that walloped the Rockies with heavy snow over the weekend, including more than 50 inches in Pinecliffe, Colo.
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The upper-level low that took heavy rain to Texas will pump moisture into Arkansas, although National Weather Service forecasters say the state will not see the deluge that Houston and Dallas saw. The water came up so quickly in some places that creeks rose up to 20 inches in a few hours.
