Texas and the federal government will begin assessing the damage caused by a series of storms that battered rural East Texas and the Houston area with rain last week.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday confirmed three deaths from a rash of spring storms. None of the deaths were in the region hardest hit by flooding. Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune and the state’s emergency director Nim Kidd, at a news conference Monday in Conroe, urged residents to report damaged property to their insurance companies and the state.
More than 50 state roads and highways remained impassable, Abbott said. Forty-three were closed at certain points due to flooding and another 14 were closed due to damage. Other local roads may also be dangerous, he said. Texas needs to report 800 uninsured homes that sustained damage to qualify for federal assistance, Kidd said. It also needs to demonstrate the state suffered $54 million in uninsured damage to government infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo lifted the mandatory evacuation order on Monday morning. Polk County officials are theirs for low-lying areas near the Lake Livingston Dam, according to the county emergency management office’s social media.
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