Parts of Harris County, including The Woodlands, were under flood warnings Thursday.
— a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.of high waters along U.S. Highway 59 Thursday showed moving trucks and cars swept away. Businesses and homes have brown water at their windows. Most county roads compromised, officials said.
Flash flood warnings were also issued for Hardin, Jasper, Orange and Tyler County by the National Weather Service Lake Charles district, according to Hardin County Emergency Management.Trinity County, The Lake Livingston Dam has been releasing over 111,000 cubic feet of water per second since Thursday morning, breaking the record established for water released during Hurricane Harvey, Murphy said.
, a Christian-based summer camp, has also opened its facilities and is being heavily utilized by the county.an escalated response to increase the readiness of the Texas Division of Emergency Management on Wednesday. He has already ordered disaster declarations for several counties over the last few days in response to heavy rainfall since April 8.
The new rainfall is landing on already heavily saturated soil, meaning it won’t be absorbed and instead will flood.
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