Weather events this week in Texas may be producing “one of the most severe flood events” in history, in Houston, not caused by a tropical cyclone Risk Management Solutions Inc. stated Thursday.
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Janice Evans, spokesperson for Houston’s mayor said the city is not going to wait for the rain to stop before they start to clean their city up.
Slack says the boys went into the water with the boat about 90 minutes before sunset. She said the Corps plans to increase the flow over the next two to three days.
The reservoirs are normally dry.
Richard Long, with the Corps’ project operations branch, says it will take a long time to drain the reservoirs behind the dams in controlled releases.
Five flood-related deaths had been previously confirmed in the Houston area, all people in vehicles caught up in the high water. Emmett is leading an effort to ensure drivers are properly notified about flooded roads during heavy storms.
A spokesman at Houston’s Emergency Operations Center says the body was found in the vehicle when the underpass at Westpark Toll Road at Interstate 610 was drained. A new daily maximum rainfall record was set at the Houston Intercontinental Airport on Monday with a total of 9.92 inches recorded, breaking the previous record of 8.16 inches from 1976.
Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods.
About 20 streets are identified in an advisory alerting residents of a subdivision near the Addicks Reservoir that street flooding was likely later Thursday and home flooding was possible.
The National Weather Service is urging people to be very careful as more rain falls on already soaked Houston.
Emergency crews made more than 1,200 high-water rescues as some residents swam out of their homes.
Mayor Domingo Montalvo Jr. says the water is rising faster than expected.
Flood warnings remained in effect for several southeastern Texas counties. That’s more rain that Salt Lake City gets in an entire year.
The commander of the Army Corp of Engineers district, Colonel Richard Pannell, says the levees are holding and he has confidence they will continue to hold.
This update has been corrected to show that Wharton is southwest of Houston, not southeast of the city.
With the storm brewing over Harris County, we are experiencing extreme flooding as the enormous amounts of rain drench the Texas soil.
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The nearby community of Hockley got pummeled with 17 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. Saturday’s forecast includes mostly sunny with highs in the 80s. For up-to-date information on the status of rain and floodwaters, please visit the Harris County Flood Warning System website.
