Year: 2017

Hemera Technologies/iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- A fleet of monster trucks driven by volunteers is traveling to Texas cities hardest hit by floodwaters.Video posted to Facebook shows a monster truck -- comprised on an SUV on monster truck wheels -- pulling a U.S. Army vehicle out of deep floodwaters in Houston on Wednesday.A crowd cheers as the military vehicle is pulled onto higher ground. Houston resident Josh James, who took the video, told […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- Six days after Hurricane Harvey roared ashore in southeastern Texas, officials and residents have begun to assess the storm's trail of destruction in Houston as the flood waters slowly started to recede.First responders, as well as urban search and rescue teams, launched a block-by-block, door-to-door search of badly flooded areas of Houston today to conduct recovery operations now that the weather has cleared and the rain […]

19695866/iStock/Thinkstock(NEEDVILLE, Tex.) -- An unusual life raft was spotted floating in the flood waters near Houston after Hurricane Harvey.The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shared a video Wednesday of an army of fire ants clinging to each other to form a floating mat amid the deluge at Brazos Bend State Park."This is a common behavior with fire ants when their colonies are flooded," Dr. Grzesiek Buczkowski, an ant specialist at […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images(ORANGE, Texas) -- A line of boats being pulled by trailers was spotted driving toward Orange, Texas, after Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall for a third time nearby.Footage taken by ABC News shows several pickup trucks towing private boats toward the city near the Louisiana border, where volunteers will launch their boats toward southeastern Texas cities such as Beaumont and Port Arthur to help rescue efforts in areas […]

ABC News(HOUSTON) -- Hurricane Harvey continued to lash several Gulf states with heavy rain as it followed its devastating path into the southern United States five days after making landfall in Texas as the most powerful storm to hit the mainland U.S. in over a decade.The storm's torrential rain, devastating winds and widespread flooding have so far cost at least 31 lives, forced more than 30,000 people from their homes […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PORT ARTHUR, Texas) -- Although Harvey's floodwaters have begun to recede in parts of Port Arthur, Texas, Mayor Derrick Freeman told ABC News that an unknown number of residents remain stranded and some homes, including his own, are still inundated with knee-deep water."Two nights ago, we had a lot of water. We got about 20 inches of water in about 24 hours, and it devastated our city," Freeman […]

Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- A pair of explosions was heard early Thursday morning and black smoke was seen rising from a chemical plant near Houston compromised by flooding from Hurricane Harvey, officials said.Arkema Inc., which runs the plant, said in a release that they were notified of the explosions by Harris County Emergency Operations at about 2 a.m. CT. Harris County police said on Twitter that one deputy was taken […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BEAUMONT) -- Beaumont has lost both its main and secondary water supplies in the wake of historic flooding due to Hurricane Harvey, city officials announced early Thursday.The storm has moved out of the east Texas area, but record rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday has caused the Neches River to overflow and damage the city's water pumps, city officials said. The city's secondary water source is located at the Loeb wells […]

Photodisc/Thinkstock(RENO, Nev.) -- A lightning strike Sunday caused a massive fire that forced officials to close the main artery between Reno, Nevada, and the Burning Man festival for several hours before reopening it this morning."The wildfire came up on the side of the road and there was a lot of smoke and wind and they were getting really close to the roadway and it was too dangerous for our drivers," […]