A brush fire that sparked from an out-of-control camp fire was burning Sunday on a small Sarasota County island, meaning without a helicopter, there's only one way fire crews can get to it – by boat.
here. no city can handle anything like that. six inch fell in one hour. that made this bayou fill up. it covered this entire area full of water. almost all this green was underwater. so that was the iconic shot you saw tuesday morning. it looked like houston was inundated. informs it was this basin and part of the low-lying area of downtown. but other areas, brays bayou came out of its banks rushing through city streets. we have underpasses here where cars go under other railroad tracks. those were filling up with water in the nighttime and we had people drive into those without warn ing warning we had seven people drown because of that. another two people drowned when the fire rescue boat overturned and they were swept downstream. even though they already put on life preservers, the water was too much for them. charles, now the water has dissipated but it s still very
yesterday. houston was a mess with freeways under water, underpasses swallowed up with a lot of water, people couldn t go anywhere. there were people who drowned when they accidentally drove into the water. as you mentioned, five people have died in houston because of the weather. two others are still missing. they were part of a rescue effort downtown when the water swept them away from the fire rescue boat they were in. that is downtown houston. the buffalo bayou goes around downtown houston and into the ship channel and got the gulf of mexico. of the good news is the water is receding here. the bad news is, we could get more rain over the next few days andrea? of course the terribly sad story of lori mccomb who spoke to her sister julie shields. julie shields talking about her missing sister and the two children the husband of that family is hospitalized.