The road. That is dangerous. For houston, Harris County. Harris county got a lot of rain. A lot of flooding. Combine houston and Harris County you literally cannot put 6. 5 Million People on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when its not planned. And many of us in this city remember when the Evacuation Order was ordered before and learned our lesson from that. Has to be very well coordinated all the way from houston to the destination point. You have to make sure that you have proper gas stations, make sure you have the proper lanes that are flowing in the right direction. It has to be coordinated. If you do it or attempt to do it and its not coordinated, not done right, you are literally putting people in harms way, and you are creating a far worse situation. In this particular case, the hurricane, we were not in the direct line. It is true, we anticipated a lot of rain. And a lot of rain, but
we were not sitting on our rooftop waiting. at least had a, a second story. but they were all as flat at pancakes on the roof. probably afraid of the tornado. scary. sad. i i broke me into tears. reporter: yeah. thank you for talk to us. doing great. got a sweet girl here. i wish you the best and we ll we ll keep monitoring the situation and try to get you dry. thank you so much. reporter: hang in there. kristy huffman and her daughter and waiting for, her husband went back. their dogs are in the house and a guy had shown up way flat bottom boat, jumped in there. i talked to the guy just before he drove off this way and ten minutes later came back with this family. a good indication and hard to show you exactly where she was and where she lived, but just behind this treeline. there s a bayou that runs through here and that is the, the body of water in this little area that s causing much of the
damage. although there is trib dutaries completely flowing out of the banks. a combination of not just one bought multiple series of waterways making they re way through the city. we sit here and talk, the rain is starting to fall. another reminder the rain keeps falling and falling. there might be a few brief respites from the rain, you know it s coming right back. so powerful words and powerful story there from one of the victims here in today s flooding in houston. fredricka? we could feel the relief in kristy s voice at the same time you could feel just how harrowing, frightening, and horrifying it was to be in the house, water rising, as she described, the refrigerator falling over. you hear that plunk and then it s bobbing and to make it to the rooftop only to be rescued by great neighbors. incredible. we wish her the best and hopefully things do look up. so many people still need to be
lavandera south in galveston, a lot of rain and a lot of rising water. what s the situation there, and also we saw people with boats helping out one another there. reporter: hi, fredricka. we are standing snap dab in the middle of interstate 45. takes you into houston. little car traffic but an immense amount of boat traffic on this roadway. people coming on their own freewill, dumping boats into water and trying to rescue people. kristy huffman, her and her daughter, just pulled out of their neighborhood. told me you were on your rooftop a little while ago? on our rooftop. waiting for the coast guard helicopter that picked up some of our neighbors. some neighbors are still back there on roop tftops and saw th boat first and took the first chance out of there. pulled off your rooftop into a boat? yes. that s how high the water is. you told me a while a, about