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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
More rain, more dead: Harvey floods keeps Houston paralyzed
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Floodwaters
reached the rooflines of single-story
homes Monday and people could
be heard pleading for help from
inside as Harvey poured rain on the
Houston area for a fourth consecu-
tive day after a chaotic weekend of
rising water and rescues.
The nation’s fourth-largest city
was still mostly paralyzed by one
of the largest downpours in U.S.
history. And there was no relief in
sight from the storm that spun into
Texas as a Category 4 hurricane,
then parked over the Gulf Coast.
With nearly 2 more feet of rain
expected on top of the 30-plus
inches in some places, authorities
worried that the worst might be yet
to come.
Harvey has been blamed for
at least three confirmed deaths,
including a woman killed Monday
in the town of Porter, northeast of
Houston, when a large oak tree
dislodged by heavy rains toppled
onto her trailer home.
A Houston television station
reported Monday that six family
members were believed to have
drowned when their van was swept
away by floodwaters. The KHOU
report was attributed to three family
members the station did not identify.
No bodies have been recovered.
Police Chief Art Acevedo told
The Associated Press that he had
no information about the report but
said that he’s “really worried about
how many bodies we’re going to
find.”
According to the station, four
children and their grandparents
were feared dead after the van hit
high water Sunday when crossing
a bridge in the Greens Bayou area.
The driver of the vehicle, the
children’s great-uncle, reportedly
escaped before the van sank by
grabbing a tree limb. He told the
children to try to escape through the
back door, but they were unable to
get out.
The disaster unfolded on an
epic scale in one of America’s most
sprawling metropolitan centers.
The Houston metro area covers
about 10,000 square miles, an area
slightly bigger than New Jersey. It’s
crisscrossed by about 1,700 miles
of channels, creeks and bayous
that drain into the Gulf of Mexico,
about 50 miles to the southeast from
downtown.
The storm is generating an
AP Photo/LM Otero
Rhonda Worthington is lifted into a boat while on her cell phone with a 911 dispatcher after her car
become stuck in rising floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Texas, on Monday.
amount of rain that would normally
be seen only once in more than 1,000
years, said Edmond Russo, a deputy
district engineer for the Army Corps
of Engineers, which was concerned
that floodwater would spill around
a pair of 70-year-old reservoir dams
that protect downtown Houston.
The flooding was so widespread
that the levels of city waterways
have equaled or surpassed those of
Tropical Storm Allison from 2001,
and no major highway has been
spared some overflow.
The city’s normally bustling
business district was virtually
deserted Monday, with emergency
vehicles making up most of the
traffic.
Rescuers continued plucking
people from the floodwaters —
more than 3,000 times by Monday
evening, Mayor Sylvester Turner
said.
Chris Thorn was among the
many volunteers still helping with
the mass evacuation that began
Sunday. He drove with a buddy
from the Dallas area with their
flat-bottom hunting boat to pull
strangers out of the water.
“I couldn’t sit at home and watch
it on TV and do nothing since I have
a boat and all the tools to help,” he
said.
They got to Spring, Texas, where
Cypress Creek had breached Inter-
state 45 and went to work, helping
AP Photo/Eric Gay
Evelyn Perkins inspects her home which was destroyed in the
wake of Hurricane Harvey, Monday in Rockport, Texas.
people out of a gated community
near the creek.
“It’s never flooded here,” Lane
Cross said from the front of Thorn’s
boat, holding his brown dog, Max.
“I don’t even have flood insurance.”
A mandatory evacuation was
ordered for the low-lying Houston
suburb of Dickinson, home to
20,000. Police cited the city’s fragile
infrastructure in the floods, limited
working utilities and concern about
the weather forecast.
In Houston, questions continued
to swirl about why the mayor did
not issue a similar evacuation order.
Turner has repeatedly defended
the decision and did so again
Monday, insisting that a mass
evacuation of millions of people by
car was a greater risk than enduring
the storm.
“Both the county judge and I sat
down together and decided that we
were not in direct path of the storm,
of the hurricane, and the safest thing
to do was for people to stay put,
make the necessary preparations. I
have no doubt that the decision we
made was the right decision.”
He added, “Can you imagine if
millions of people had left the city
of Houston and then tried to come
back in right now?”
The Red Cross quickly set up
the George R. Brown Convention
Center and other venues as shelters.
The center, which was also used to
house Hurricane Katrina refugees
from New Orleans in 2005, can
accommodate
roughly
5,000
people. By Monday evening, it was
nearly full.
At the Addicks and Barker
reservoirs, the Army Corps started
releasing water Monday because
water levels were climbing at a
rate of more than 6 inches per hour,
Corps spokesman Jay Townsend
said.
The move was supposed to
help shield the business district
from floodwaters, but it also risked
flooding thousands more homes
in nearby subdivisions. Built after
devastating floods in 1929 and
1935, the reservoirs were designed
to hold water until it can be released
downstream at a controlled rate.
In the Cypress Forest Estates
neighborhood in northern Harris
County, people called for help
from inside homes as water from a
nearby creek rose to their eaves. A
steady procession of rescue boats
floated into the area.
Harvey increased slightly in
strength Monday as it drifted back
over the warm Gulf, according to
the National Hurricane Center.
Forecasters expect the system to
stay over water with 45 mph winds
for 36 hours and then head back
inland east of Houston sometime
Wednesday. The system will then
head north and lose its tropical
strength.
Before then, up to 20 more
inches of rain could fall, National
Weather Service Director Louis
Uccellini said Monday.
That means the flooding will
get worse in the days ahead and the
floodwaters will be slow to recede
once Harvey finally moves on, the
weather service said.
Sometime Tuesday or early
Wednesday, parts of the Houston
region will probably break the
nearly 40-year-old U.S. record for
the biggest rainfall from a tropical
system — 48 inches, set by Tropical
Storm Amelia in 1978 in Texas,
meteorologists said.
In
Washington,
President
Donald Trump’s administration
assured Congress that the $3 billion
balance in the Federal Emergency
Management Agency’s disaster
fund was enough to handle imme-
diate needs, such as debris removal
and temporary shelter for displaced
residents.
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