“They were backed up pretty badly,” Plushnick-Masti, 42, a communications director at the Houston Forensic Science Center, told HuffPost by phone later that evening. Joe Raedle via Getty Images People walk down a flooded Houston street as they evacuate their homes Sunday after Hurricane Harvey hit. Meyerland has experienced flooding in the past few years, but it usually is spared the worst of the damage. Heavy rains often wreak havoc on neighborhoods on Houston’s east side, though, where many low-income African-Americans and Latinos live. Another resident, Stephanie Thomas, told Houston Press “something powerful” singed her nostrils, describing the smell “like burnt rubber with a hint of something metallic thrown in.” Others on Twitter reported similar odors.

Source: Huffington Post August 29, 2017 19:07 UTC