Month: August 2017

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- Volunteer rescuers in northwest Houston saved a man who had been clinging to a road sign since Monday afternoon to avoid being swept away in swift-moving floodwaters.The man was holding onto the sign in waist-deep waters, ABC Houston station KTRK-TV reported.Multiple attempts had been made to rescue the man, KTRK-TV reported. First, energy workers repairing power lines in Harris County tried to rescue him on Tuesday but couldn't […]

USCG Heartland(HOUSTON) -- In an urgent message, officials announced that a levee in a county south of Houston was breached, after days of torrential rain from Hurricane Harvey. "NOTICE: The levee at Columbia Lakes has been breached!! GET OUT NOW!!!" Brazoria County said on Twitter on Tuesday morning. pic.twitter.com/sUTyXBzer9— Brazoria County (@BrazoriaCounty) August 29, 2017 The National Weather Service announced Tuesday afternoon that preliminary data indicates the all-time record for […]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- Tropical Storm Harvey, which first made landfall Friday as a hurricane before weakening into a persistent storm that has circled over southeastern Texas for days, has shattered the contiguous-U.S. rainfall record for a tropical storm, according to the National Weather Service.Breaking the previous mark of 48 inches, Harvey recorded 49.2 inches at an area called Mary's Creek at Winding Road, Texas, the weather service reported.The storm, which dropped […]

ABC News(HOUSTON) -- Rescuers are battling through relentless "waves of rain" to try and help survivors of Hurricane Harvey in southeastern Texas, as the death toll from the storm has climbed to seven.Samuel Peña, Houston's fire chief, told Good Morning America Tuesday that his city is being inundated by "wave after wave after wave of rain" in the aftermath of the Category 4 hurricane and continued tropical storm, complicating rescue […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey is not limited to Texas, it's also affecting parts of Louisiana where preparations are underway to evacuate some areas.As the heavy band of rain stretches over southwest Louisiana, residents in the Lake Charles region are once again bracing for impact like they did for Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago.On Monday night, water rose to chest-high in some areas, flooding homes and […]

ABC News(HOUSTON) -- The mayor of the Houston promised to personally defend undocumented immigrants who be may hesitant to seek help in the aftermath of Harvey over fears of being deported.Mayor Sylvester Turner said he would represent any immigrant who faces deportation after seeking help during the storm relief efforts. The mayor said the city is focusing on helping those who have been stranded and displaced by historic rain and […]

Janet Weinstein/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Growing up on his father’s boat off the Rockaways in Queens, New York, Tom Paladino was always on the lookout for whales.“My father started a fishing business in 1945 when he came back from the service, so I never really had a job. I was just on the boat my whole life,” Paladino said as he steered his own boat, the American Princess, back to […]