is basically beaten that mya in water totals. the average rain has exceeded that former storm in half the time and this is five days of expected rain. i know that the city of dallas has just tweeted that they re preparing to open their mega shelter to receive what they say coastal guests and the city plans to have it open by tuesday morning. as we think about that, mya, that s another 48 less than 48 hours to go. from what you re seeing, do you think people can with stand waiting to try to get to the mega shelter in dallas from what you re seeing on the ground? i think people were just caught very unaware by this. they went to bed last night thinking, okay, it s going to take a couple of days for all of this to play out, these huge numbers that we were hearing of rainfall coming and then, you know, they woke up in the middle of the night and there s water right at their doorstep and rising. so i think that sort of jarred them in the sense of we thought
flooding that harris county, the people living in and around the rural areas of houston really need to prepare for this storm now already beating allison in its water totals from 2001? right now we are having an unprecedented disaster in this county and region. this is something that we have never faced before and it has stretched everything to the absolute limits right now and we have water levels that are going into the second story of structures. we have water levels that are going over roofs and levies that we are concerned about. there is just tremendous, tremendous flooding and we have, you know you mentioned the rescues, that s probably a very conservative number of rescues easily several thousand rescues have been ongoing and there are several thousand more rescues to
water. some have had water restored, but a lot of damage to the sewage systems here. there s a potential for further evacuations. we re in columbia. this is the center of the state. probably it got the brunt of the damage from what we have seen in our four or five days here in the state. this water has to go somewhere and there s that potential it will drain into the coast causing further damage in places like charleston and beyond. governor hailey spoke about all of this at a press conference earlier this afternoon. what you will see happen is as the water shifts down, we re going to preposition where the roads are closed. so roads are closed and you re going to see them down from the mid-lands down to the low country as the water flows. you ll see road closures happen that didn t happen before. that s more because we know water totals that are starting to come in a certain direction. you ll see e evacuations in certain places. those will be announced as well. we have had a brief