![]() ![]() ![]() Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston said that even though conditions overnight had been relatively uneventful, residents should stay prepared. “If it’s going to rain or flood, we just have to bear with whatever happens.” “There’s no sense of getting tired of them, because it’s the good Lord’s work,” she said of the repeated storms. She got the keys to her new house just last month.Īs the rain dripped on and off Wednesday, she said she was less worried than in past storms, because her new home had been elevated several feet above the flood plain. When she had the chance to tear the house down and start anew, through a city recovery program, she jumped at the chance. The house reeked of mildew afterward, she recalled, and floodwater left the floor warped, so she had to remember to step up and down when walking into her kitchen. Wood, 81, had lived in her three-bedroom home in southern Houston for decades when it flooded as high as her shin in 2017. “I’m still looking at all of these boxes,” she said on Wednesday. Heavy rain, high winds and tornadoes leveled entire neighborhoods, and some residents are still recovering.Įmma Wood, whose home was recently rebuilt after flooding during Harvey, had not yet unpacked in her new home by the time Imelda rolled in. Imelda is the latest storm to hit a rain-weary region that has been battered by major storms and catastrophic flooding in recent years, from the so-called Tax Day floods of April 2016 to Hurricane Harvey two summers ago, which lingered over the city as a tropical storm. “Even though we’ve done well overnight, we haven’t had any significant amounts of flooding or impacts, we can’t let our guard down just yet.” “Takeaway message this morning is we’re about 24 hours or halfway through this 48-hour event,” he said. Later in the afternoon, the district said on Twitter that some of the creek and bayou water levels were slowly falling. Jeff Lindner, director of the Flood Control District for Harris County, said Wednesday morning that residents should stay apprised as the storm keeps moving. “Higher rainfall amounts may hold off till overnight as the system moves north.” “Houston’s not seeing a lot of the heavy rainfall that it could be seeing,” Scott Overpeck, meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Houston/Galveston office, said in a Wednesday morning interview. The rainfall could result in “significant to life-threatening flash floods,” the center said. Parts of southwest Louisiana could see four to 8 inches of rain, with isolated totals of 10 inches. The storm, which was slowly moving northeast through the eastern Texas region, was expected to bring rainfall of five to 10 inches through Friday, and could deliver 20 to 25 inches to some places, according to the Weather Prediction Center on Wednesday afternoon. Tropical Depression Imelda churned over the Houston area on Wednesday, soaking some areas with more than 10 inches of rain and bringing the threat of heavy rainfall and flash flood watches to southeast Texas and extreme southwest Louisiana. ![]()
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