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Mandatory evacuation orders were issued near Houston on Thursday for some residents following heavy rains in Texas that stranded motorists, flooded streets and closed schools as officials warned ...
Whitmire said that downtown Houston is a "mess," that firefighters were taking live wires off of Route 290 and that most traffic lights across the city are down. Severe Weather in Houston Texas ...
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas, and residents in Harris County, home to Houston, were told to be ready to stay put for days after heavy rain caused flooding.
The climate of Houston brings very heavy rainfall annually in between April and October, during the Texas Gulf Coast rainy season, together with tidal flood events, which have produced repeated floods in the city ever since its founding in 1836, though the flood control district founded in 1947, aided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Major flooding has prompted water rescues in at least one Texas city. As many as 20 drivers had to be helped from rising water in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston, police said.
More than 140,000 residents in the Texas Gulf Coast danger zones in Ike's path had failed to evacuate, [5] partly due to fears of multi-hour traffic jams as during Hurricane Rita, but over 940 were rescued from rising waters, [2] [6] and nearly 2,000 rescued afterward.
Storms in Texas brought additional rain Sunday to the already saturated Houston area where hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads, while to the north in the Fort Worth ...
On May 31, 2005, at 6 a.m., 97.5 KIOL broke the simulcast and launched Houston's third attempt at an FM news/talk station, as KFNC "FM News Channel 97-5." (102.1 KLYX—now KMJQ—was the first in 1975 as an affiliate of NBC Radio 's now-defunct 24-hour NBC News and Information Service ; 97.1 KKTL was the second FM News/Talk station, and is now ...