houses on a slab, exprepressed e ground, no basement. that s the major concern for flooding in these low-lying neighborhoods throughout tampa. hold on. i want to tell our viewers what s going on the other screen. that s clearwater, florida, not far from anderson cooper, ryan young in the parking lot. some debris is falling. anderson on the right side of your screen in tampa, florida. you heard my interview earlier with the mayor. at this point, though, he believes because of the path of the storm and it s been downgraded a bit, he thinks they re going to get some damage but he believes they still dodged a major bullet. it s something that could have been much worse. i think that s true. don, as you know, you love new orleans and know it better than anybody. folks in new orleans thought they dodged a bullet after katrina passed and then they woke up in the lower ninth with water flooding through.
millions of gallons of water flooding and at that point it would be a situation everyone in this area would have to seek refuge immediately. you are talking about neighborhoods that will face months and years of devastation. of those dams give we are in a real crisis was officials not saying that but monitoring local radio, the fact that the harris county flood control is on the radio saying they are half a foot away, people in the immediate area are going to face a significant impact because they don t know, they have an uncontrolled water situation and may have to stop the release because the water going back into the reservoir. we will go to janice.
can t reach. now what s happening is you re seeing houston get this torrential water flooding and what happens is we re in the middle of the event. the key is going to be as soon as the event basically dies down, what is the devastation and then we ll have to see what the emergency response is. i can tell you this, it is quite an event. it is something everybody needs to watch. i do have faith that the emergency management teams will be able to handle it. however, it s going to mean texas is going to have a big interruption over the next several weeks. sir, the president announced he s going to come to texas on tuesday. do you support that visit? absolutely. i encourage not only the president, i encourage the governor, the u.s. senator, they ve all reached out, they re coming to texas. i think the more education and alertness we bring to natural disasters will help everybody. representative todd hunter of the state of texas. thank you very much i appreciate your time.
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died? from what i understand there were two vehicles involved. a friend of mine on facebook said she had seen the vehicles trying to make it across and the wall of water just pushed them off the edge apparently. how quickly did the water come up? some people described it as simply like a wall of water flooding through the town. yeah, it starts somewhat slower and escalated to a flood for sure. like i said, it happened within like a half hour, 45 minutes. juz just gone and then the sun was shining again. so the situation right now, is it the water has completely receded? pretty much, yes. completely receded. i just got a message from some friends that they re looking for 300 volunteers to help sort through the debris. they re trying to find people from i understand, that s where i m trying to head right now, the fire station to see if there s anything i can do to