upriver, as you might say, is working really well. you can see that there is a fair amount of space here in this spillway for the waters to continue to rise. but this is all heading down to what they locally call the gaudalupe river, and as it s heading down towards the river, some of the creeks are already overwhelmed, going over their banks, and of course the gaudalupe river is rushing with all sorts of debris. the real threat here now is while this is doing what it s designed to do, you have a situation where harvey has parked himself over this region, and we re going to see rain here for the next couple of days. it s estimated we might see upwards of 36, 37 inches of rain here which means the system will be tested. in fact, it s likely that it may be actually broken because it s just so much rain, a historic
the rain hammer houston and areas out west towards victoria, so we want to take a look at the gaudalupe river at victoria where the rain gauges are going to go up. possibly historical records here. we re looking at the forecast crest on wednesday at 32.3 feet and the record is 34. that s going to be interesting as we see these levels rise and water spread everywhere. where does that water go afterwards? it s going to take time to get rid of it. after we get the rain, after this moves out when it finally does, it s going to be several weeks before we start to see improvement here because so much rain is moving in. we re also seeing, again, no steering current for this storm. that s why it is staying in place. we re looking at several issues here. in terms of flooding, that s the main thing we re talking about here. catastrophic danger in terms of the flooding as we head into next week with days and days on end of rain happening in texas. all right, shawna mendiola, thanks so much for