ADVERTISEMENTHOUSTON – While officials in Houston used controlled releases of water from dams to try to keep them from failing amid relentless rainfall, residents of the Fleetwood neighborhood wedged between the Addicks and Barker reservoirs dealt with a new onslaught of flooding from the dams themselves. The reservoirs hold a combined 410,000 acre-feet of water, and dam failure could put half the city underwater. By the time they’d heard about it late Sunday, it was already dark and too late to get out. Roque Planas/HuffPost A person is rescued in a Houston neighborhood after water was released to ease overflowing on nearby reservoirs. “The water came up so fast,” said Schumaker.

Source: Huffington Post August 28, 2017 21:22 UTC