Hurricane Harvey pounded southern Texas with as much as three feet of rain, high enough for at least one family to fish from their own flooded living room on Sunday.
“This is pretty wild-Houston residents fishing inside their homes,” Huffington Post editor Philip Lewis commented on the video which came from a local ABC affiliate.
This is pretty wild – Houston residents fishing inside their homes. #HurricaneHarvey pic.twitter.com/iQPPa7kyI6
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 27, 2017
Harvey crashed into the Texas coast as a category 4 hurricane before it was eventually downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday. The city of Houston appeared to get the majority of flood damage due to the fact that the storm stopped moving north, stopping over much of South Texas.
The extremely high water level covered entire highways and left several seniors stuck in waist-deep water at a nursing home, according to KPRC 2 Houston.
Residents weren’t ordered to evacuate Houston due to the fact that the storm wasn’t expected to stop over the area, according to a report from The Washington Post.
And there are apparently no safe evacuation routes now:https://t.co/aAsnuTPAP7
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 27, 2017
Local news reporters on the ground report that there aren’t any safe evacuation routes left out of the city and local government officials are requesting that all individuals in the flood zone remain in their homes and wait for rescue teams to help them evacuate.
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