where i'm standing right now, if you were standing in this same spot at this same time yesterday, the tops of your shoes wouldn't even be wet. all of this has come about after the rain has stopped and this part of western houston. i'm in the memorial area of western houston where right near buffalo bayou, two dams, two essentially retaining ponds almost if you will, that have been filtering out so much of this water, they just can't keep up. so even after the rain has stopped, they have been discharging water out of these dams and it has ended up in neighborhoods like this one, where i'm three and a half feet deep in the water. it goes back another couple of blocks behind me, where a man on a boat just came by, said his fish finder told him that the depth back there is at least seven feet. the good news if there is any in this particular neighborhood, these are mostly two story houses. the rescue efforts have been a little bit slower paced because they knew people had higher floors to go to. i can tell you, i've been in this neighborhood now for two