harvey all over again. the remnants of tropical storm imelda, you know it dumped torrential rain on the area. so far there have been at least four people confirmed dead that may have been linked to the dangerous weather, and now emergency crews are going door to door to rescue those people still trapped by the rising flood waters. casey steagall is live in huffman, texas, which right now, casey, about under behind you like 16 feet of water in some praises? that s unbelievable. reporter: yeah, it is. in isolated spots this particular area back here is not 16 feet because it is going down pretty fast. i mean, that is the good news here, is that it s going down just as fast as it came in a lot of areas. for instance, 20 miles to the west over in metro houston, you drive around, and you really wonder what storm? even though it was largely underwater 48 hours ago. i want to step aside and let you take a look at what is going on back here. this is huffman, texas.
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almost like yesterday we were standing not far from here, reporting on that natural disaster, and all too familiar of a feeling this go around which was not a hurricane but just a system that sat here and dumped so much rain, and now this area is in recovery mode. you can see the intersection in this neighborhood back here of huffman, texas, is still under water. we ve been showing that to you all day. although since we have been here, we ve watched it recede gradually. but in the lower-lying areas, an awful lot of homes are still under water, and it is going to take a bit of time before they re able to dry out. now, we want to tell you that further east of here and north of here is where the heaviest rains fell, like in the communities of where we are and over in beaumont, port arthur texas where more than 2 feet of rain came down in 48 hours. can you imagine?
time for these lower-lying areas, like this intersection back here in the neighborhood we re in. this is huffman, texas, about 30 miles east of houston. the whole intersection you see back there is submerged. and you have homes down there that also have water inside. the heaviest of the rainfall actually came down in communities like this, further east and north of the houston metro area. near beaumont, port arthur, for example, more than 2 feet of rain came down in 48 hours, 2 feet in isolated spots. and sadly, as you heard, so many people have been through this just two years ago. got flooded in harvey last year or two a year and a half ago. and we got about 2 inches in our house. my house was the last house to flood in this neighborhood.
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