officer for the harris county office for emergency management, franciso sanchez. in houston. so franciso, explain with the narm weather service issuing a flood warning for houston and victoria, what preparations are underway and what staged assets are already in place for those at most risk? well right we have, as you ll see, flash flood watches and warnings for almost the entire southeast texas coast. and for us here at least in the short-term, we ve got up to 15 and more inches of rain between now and thursday. but looking at where we are now, four to six inches expected tonight and another possible six to ten through monday. so that is a 24 hour period of a lot of rain. we are working right now with a local fire, state and law enforcement weather partners to monitor for that. so because we ve had floods over the past few years, we have increased the number of water rescue assets that we have. we have 60% more than during our