these homes or senior homes and just being concerned about them, not being able to do anything to help them. thinking you would see this picture and say, oh, my god, that s my grandmother. joining us live from dickinson, texas is northbound s saybc s s that shocking photo repeated all over this community in all sorts of populations. we are still under a flash flood warning here in dickinson this morning with more rain on the way. that is bad nous to people waking up to this, their neighborhoods flooded. this is one of the areas that when officials put out the call yesterday for volunteers with boats, people responded en masse. we saw people in the community launching jet skis, canoes, flat bottom boats, airboats, pretty much anything that could traverse these complicated
when people are watching, people are saying get out. but it s an emotional decision to leave your home even when people are telling you to do that. now to nbc meteorologist bill karins who has been standing by. good morning to you, yasmin and ayman. we are watching the storm carefully. for the last 48 hours, the storm has sat within victoria texas, within 60 miles of there. 000 we ll watch it drift today and tomorrow. we start to move the storm throughout the week, then we ll start to see the rain heading out of the flood zone around houston and into other areas. let s give you that forecast there. this is over the week. by tuesday and wednesday starting to send the moisture further to the north and that will help areas to the south. rain bands continue to develop off the gulf. the torrential raen will continue throughout the midweek. hopefully we can put it in a
for long-term solutions elsewhere. the big part of what s started to happened has started to unfold is lines, lines and more lines. people lining up for gasoline, lining up for food. heb, which is the largest grocery store chain here has established an emergency kitchen where they re providing hot food for folks, cooking hamburgers yesterday. they ll have more food today and they brought in trucks and restocked the grocery stores. with all of this where it looks like things are going to perhaps start getting better, there s the threat, very similar to what s going on in houston along the guadalupe river. as the rain continues to fall, the bayous, the streams, the creeks, they re overflowing their banks an going into the river. as you can see here from this individual e i don t that we took with our drone, the guadalupe river, not only filled with debris but well beyond its banks. p the forecast is correct, by
today was supposed to be the first day of school in houston city school. it has been postponed and called for more national guard. a case that is already drawing questions. dallas is going to open, quote, a mega shelter. there have been tornado warnings overnight and we may only be halfway done with the rain which is pretty unbelievable to think about. the warning from the national weather service was ominous. this event is unprecedented they said, and all impacts are unknown beyond anything experienc experienced. the national hurricane center said the houston area could see 50 inches of rain. we ll get bill karins weighing in in a moment. joining us live in victoria is nbc s kerry sanders. give us an update.
different spot than it was all weekend long. rainfall predictions, we re still thinking 10 to 15 inches from victoria, through houston, beaumont, port arthur. totals could reach 26 inches especially in the feed ir areas. as far as rain far totals, this area of the darker purple is ten inches. 15 is the red, 20 inches is that pink shading. look how widespread that s been, through the north of i-10, through houston and down into galveston. highest rainfall totals are 28 to 30 inches already. that s why some areas have the possibility of getting near 50 inches. isn t that unimaginable. over four feet of water. this is the rainfall totals around the city, already up 15 to 20 inches. all these flood gauges in major