the past week, and that is the 70-year-old reservoirs that have been inundated with water. back again from west houston garrett haake. what more can you tell us about the conditions of those reservoirs, officials, and their concerns about the water levels there this morning? >> reporter: when this is over we're going to remember the names of the reservoirs and dams. they were built in the 1940s. they weren't ever expected to have to handle this much water. the idea is that all these upstream, if you will, neighborhoods like the one i'm in now that have been completely flooded out, all this water is supposed to flow down through the flood plain and down through those reservoirs, and then be discharged out into the bayou. well, the second half of that has been sort of working over the last day and a half. we were in down stream neighborhoods yesterday that have, unfortunately, been flooded by the waters that are trying to get pumped out through the bayou and out to the gulf.