five days. here it is. there are major reservoirs to the west of houston, built when houston had 250,000 people. here they are right here. the addicks reservoir holding back billions of gallons of water. back here, barker is holding back a lot of water. eventually, the water spills out over the spillway control and into the buffalo bayou. we have been controlling this spill for days now, pushing the water out controlled. but that has all failed. there s not enough water coming out and the reservoir has filled up. it has filled up and flooded all the neighborhoods on the we ll be right back here that have been built since 1930s when this reservoir was built. get rid of this real quick and i will show you what else we want to talk about. here is the reservoir, an earthen dam built on dirt, big piles of dirt.