Severe storm slams Texas

that new round of devastating weather in Texas already battered by torrential rain flooding tornadoes and huge hail Samar Theodore is live for us in Conroe Texas good morning to you Samara good morning Jana so Conroe Texas sits about 40 minutes worth of a drive north of Houston and this house sits along the San jento River the river has swollen so much that it has completely inundated the grounds of this family home in fact I'm standing in the dry driveway you can see the saturated grounds have caused two large oak trees to fall completely impeding access to this family reaching their home and unfortunately that could be the scene for many more Texans as we gear up for another round of severe weather and heavy rainfall through the weekend this morning Texans bracing for more severe weather after dangerous storms Slamm the state tornadoes tearing through towns leaving wreckage in their wake Heavy Rain flooding towns closing roads and shutting down schools with Rivers Rising authorities enforced mandatory evacuations while coming to the aid of Trapped Citizens First Responders arriving in boats and pulling people to safety amid the Rushing Water you live back there yeah I did wow wow I lost my home outside Huntsville a group of Good Samaritans banding together to rescue this man whose truck had gotten washed off a road a helicopter arriving later to bring him to safety if you're in a low flying area go to safety do not wait till it's too late and then you endanger our first responders get in get in the car while driving through the town of Hodges stormchaser Freddy mckin spotting the Lambert family desperately running for safety I remember hearing glass break and then I remember hearing bricks coming down and they were coming down on top of us one touching down in Holly destroying homes and sending residents fleeing for their lives our Mara villal witnessing the damage in Holly firsthand where families are trying to pick up the pieces the tornado that actually hit this area completely destroyed this home there was a family of five inside when it actually kit they hid in two closets they are okay they survived the storm's also bringing hail to parts of the Lone Star State 2in hail reported in Scurry County now you know this rain that's getting ready to move in on Sunday comes on the heels of some epic totals take a look right now so in the last couple of days we've seen at least 23 Ines of rain Eng groved in Texas Huntsville Texas saw around 21 in of rain right now we remain under flood watches and flood warnings throughout the Greater Houston area and while we have this break the next round of wet weather is anticipated to move in overnight by 2 a.m. arriving heavy rainfall then batters this region through Sunday into Sunday evening the more imminent threat though is actually this afternoon a little bit farther west in San Angelo Texas we're anticipating more strong thunderstorms take a look at this rist this is level three out of five highest tornado RIS exists for Midland St Angelo down to fork ston and we could see very large Hill and damaging winds along with these storms Gio it's that tornado threat we really have to watch all right Samara thank you so much

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Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2024