they woke up this morning, it was dry, they had no issues whatsoever, they made it through most of the tomorrow, then they re seeing the water rise quickly as the reservoir topped, spilling over, and heading into the area. that s the addicks reservoir at the top. i want to come in and show you on my desktop here, this was a photo just sent out by the muft flood control people. this is bear creek village, this is an area that was dry this morning. this is on the northern end of that addicks reservoir. when it overtopped this morning at 8:00 a.m., the water started going in here and you can seeitis half wii up to some of these houses. a lot of cars, you can see only the top of them. when we had maya on the screen and she had the people coming out and being dropped off in boats, these are the houses that those people are coming from. and there are just a ton of those houses. i can show you a different image here. this is the actual reservoir that s completely covered in
water, and this is up here is that same area, the bear creek village that the people are being rescued in that woke up this morning and were just fine. also an elementary school located here that like i has water in it too. you can see where the water was on a dry day and then the whole region is just flooded. so, craig, you want to g through a the rivers, about ten have record crests on them and each is causing headaches in their own areas. we heard from the bay area, one elementary school shelter being evaluated because the shelter is being threatened by floodwater. when you get to uncharted, unprecedented water heights, we re trying to figure out where to put people that is safe. houston is efx treatmently fext. this was a area maya was. chase bank off clay road. that s that bear creek vil annals. down that road where the boats are coming in and out of,
maybe in the houston area, maybe another inch or two but obviously the damage has been done. we re concerned with the kings ford area on interstate 69 to the northeast of houston. that s where it s still raining hard. that s tw where two rivers meet, spring creek, san jacinto. that s where they re having the most concern with the high water in homes. the press conference earlier, that s where they re trying to save lives. other areas the water is rising slowly. in beaumont, flashflood warning there, a lot-heavy rain, and that is continuing to push up through area, beaumont, in the northeast of galveston, and that river is supposed to be at record crest in beaumont in about two or three days from now. you can tell problems we ll have there. and we ll continue the monitor the dams there. i m going to g over the my weather one computer and have the director take that. still watching the water rising. it s unbelievable. here is addicks reservoir. maya is at the northern end of the addicks