5 things for Houstonians to know for Tuesday, March 22 KPRC2
Severe thunderstorms are moving through the Houston area beginning Monday evening. Tornadoes, hail, damaging winds and flooding are all possible through Tuesday morning2. Why do streets flood in Houston so easily?In Houston, the streets are supposed to flood. They’re designed as secondary storm channels to hold storm runoff and allow it to drain through storm sewers into bayous and rivers.Harris County Meteorologist Jeff Linder had an answer for concerned residents.
So, we start talking about the rainfall rates we were seeing yesterday, 4 to 5, even 6 inches an hour, that’s just a tremendous amount of water that’s going to overwhelm the ability of pipes to carry that water.”Storms continue to push to the east. Heavy rainfall and isolated severe storms are possible for those along the leading edge of the storm.
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