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| This is Michael Zimmerman for InfoWords.com. | |
| We're here. | |
| This is post-Oklane. | |
| Here's Interstate 610 in Houston, Texas. | |
| So you can see there's people launching boats here. | |
| And there's actually some boats coming right back in now. | |
| Full of people that they've rescued. | |
| Individuals are launching their own boats to go and save people because there's just far too many people trapped. | |
| The National Guard and the local... | |
| Rescue teams cannot possibly pick up all of them, so they've put out a call for individuals to come out and help rescue people, help with these rescue efforts. | |
| So you see here they're now launching a jet ski, some fishing boats, and they're just adding more and more boats to the water to go out and rescue people here in the Post Oak area. | |
| This is happening all over Houston, though, as the flood waters continue to rise and trap people in their homes. | |
| As you can see, the light poles here, there's probably at least 10 feet of water in this intersection, just based on the height of those above the water. | |
| So this is very deep water, and there's lots of homes over in this area here that people are trapped inside of. | |
| And the freeway here is entirely shut down. | |
| We'll walk over this way. | |
| There's actually an 18-wheeler that got stuck in the water. | |
| And there's certain roads here that are accessible, but for the most part... | |
| Houston is just completely locked down. | |
| You can actually see water bubbling up from the ground with how saturated everything is here. | |
| There's nowhere for the water to go, so all this surface water is just pulling up, going feet deep. | |
| This is Interstate 610 over here. | |
| You can see lots of emergency vehicles. | |
| And there's an 18-wheeler in the distance. | |
| We'll get over to it. | |
| But everywhere I've gone here just continues to get worse as we go further into the city. | |
| Houston and the Gulf Coast was expected to get up to 30 inches of rain in this area. | |
| Around three feet of water. | |
| And Houston is largely a concrete jungle. | |
| Lots of roads everywhere. | |
| Here's the 18-wheeler behind me. | |
| Not going to be able to make it through. | |
| And I grew up in the Houston area. | |
| I've seen a number of these floods and storms before that cause massive flooding. | |
| This is by far the worst that I've seen in just talking to people in the Houston area who have lived here their whole lives. | |
| They say this is absolutely worse than different hurricanes or tropical storms that have previously flooded the area. | |
| And we may even see snakes or all kinds of wildlife that lives in woods like this. | |
| You'll see it on the surface. | |
| But also sewers end up bubbling up and the water ends up being very contaminated with sewage. | |
| So you can see here in the distance that 18 wheel air flooded out. | |
| And deep floodwaters here. | |
| We keep bringing you more reports. |
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