about what they said. we re not in love with the house anymore. this house still has heart. oh, yes. but we ve lost love for this home. because this brings back so many really bad memories. tell us more about their story and where they are a year later. so gill and carla were among the hardest hits residents when we went to the neighborhood of bear creek village, houston. they were flooded twice, once in april 2016 tax day flood and then again in hurricane harvey. in between there, gill, who s a veteran, lost his job in the oil industry and carla had a stroke. and the bank began foreclosure proceedings on their home. when harvey hit and they had 4 to 5 feet of water in their house, they did get some money from fema. they did not have flood insurance. but it wasn t nearly enough to really redo their whole house. so they took about 20,000 of the
updating these building codes, but for right now it s really important people get the message they need to prepare now. given the lax zoning laws or lack thereof in houston, should we expect to see the same level of destruction in florida that we saw there? well, there s no question that we re seeing more severe and more frequent flooding events. just in the gulf region alone we ve soon 500 to 1,000-year flooding events in the past two years, the memorial day flood in texas, the tax day flood, harvey, and two major storms in l.a. will. so clearly we need to be thinking when we rebuild how we do that safer and stronger because we know this is going to happen again and frankly it s unfair to have taxpayers on the hook to just rebuild over and goempb. it makes much more sense to rebuild higher and stronger now after these storms hit, particularly in the houston area where i am now, then it does to have those taxpayer dollars to be spent on rebuilding. that s conversation to have at a
about it. there is what they called the tax day flood, memorial day flood. just in the last year and a half. those were really devastating and just centralized in just different parts. so, now, this one, in the north. we have lake conrow. mandatory evacuations there. i m in the northwest part of it and basically stuck here in a parking lot because we could not get out either way. the major thoroughfares were shut off last night. we ll try to go out again a little bit later and see how far we can get to because they are, you know, there s flash flooding and it will recede and socome right back as the bands of rain continues to hit us. we have all of those hundreds of thousands of people that live there that have the voluntary evacuations and, of course, both airports we know are closed. that is on the south and north end and this is something that is completely inundating the entire community. phillip, can you walk us through the dam release, as well. the idea that one has been
and it s very unfortunate. our tax day flood that took place in 2016 claimed nine days, the memorial day flood claimed eight lives. we turn around we encourage people to turn around, there s no necessity to go out, stay in. you can educated yourself more, do reading, the things you want to catch up unaround the house. i m concerned about flash flooding and because we don t have the amount of rainfall right now that we can anticipate, some people may assume that we won t get it. my hope is that people will heed the warnings and stay indoors, this is a good time to catch up on your honey do s. you re watching the southwest area of houston that s your district. we re talking about 6.5 million
means that we won t have as many cars damaged. when we had our last two episodes, the memorial day flood and the tax day flood, we had a good many cars that were out on the road, literally thousands, about 10,000 cars in the memorial day flood and the we limit some of the damage in the area of transportation vehicles because people have had enough advance notice. what is your biggest concern going forward in the next few hours. my big concern is rain that will will be mourd in feet and a duration of days. houston is about 80 feet above sea level. dallas is over 400 feet above sea level. we re 600 square miles and fairly flat when it comes to our terrain. as a result we have flash floods. and these flash floods in houston have taken lives.