'It's as bad as I've ever seen it,' Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said of the remnants of Hurricane Imelda. 'Right now, as a Texas sheriff, the only thing that I really want is for people to pray that it will quit raining.'
: A National Weather Service gauge at Peach Creek in Montgomery County recorded 21 inches in the 24 hours through midafternoon Thursday. Luce Bayou, on Lake Houston in northeast Harris County, topped 15 inches during the same period, while numerous other communities got 13 or more inches.
Bush Intercontinental issued a full ground stop late in the morning, before resuming flights with significant delays. Hobby Airport announced shortly after noon that departing flights would be allowed to take off but that arrivals were being turned away.Sept. 19, 2019Flood waters forced the hasty evacuation Thursday of Riceland Medical Center in Winnie, about 60 miles east of downtown Houston.
James Revia, 40, of Hankamer in Chambers County, and his four children were rescued from their flooded trailer park home by a passing fire truck.
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