gonna go to our Ryan Coors guard who is
at Elinor Tinsley Park which was set to
be the host of the festivities for
freedom over Texas tonight Ryan we still
see a stage all set up but it's a
looking a little soggy it is and we have
calls into the city right now trying to
find out what the future of this is
because I'll tell you what in the last
little bit
let me move out of the way and you can
see this forklift busy carrying away
some of the equipment that was set up
over here I'll move over here if we look
to the left there are workers under that
tent and they are removing that we've
also seen them removing generators I
David if we can walk right over here
this is one of the smaller stages and
you can see if we look to the left in
this area they have a giant screen there
they're in the process of taking that
down put into the Ryder truck and that
Ryder truck actually now sitting in
water that was not the case a short time
ago let us take you out to the Bayou
it's on the other side of this fence
I'll meet you over on the other side the
Bayou when we first got here the crazy
thing is it was way down there that's
not the case now I'm not sure how deep
this water is but here goes and we'll
see much deeper but this is the Bayou
quickly coming up as Jeff Linder had
suggested and it is
yeah it's nearly up to the top of the
boots don't go any deeper David but this
is the Buffalo Bayou going into downtown
you can see the Doubletree there the
Sabine bridge is just beyond that up
there you can see another one of those
generator trucks in the process of
moving out and the problem is not just
the rain that's following here but all
of that water that's coming from
upstream too from 6-10 Beltway 8 and
Beyond funneling into this area so you
can imagine that lag effect as the rain
continues to fall it continues to funnel
into this making its way towards the
Houston Ship Channel this coming up even
and faster I'll tell you what we have
been in this spot for about 45 minutes
since we took over for Jake Ryan or just
after his 11 o'clock newscast and I'll
tell you what at that point the water
was down this way under this covered
walkway I would say another good 8 to 10
feet I'm not saying it's come up that
far I'm saying it his crapped up more
into the Buffalo Bayou park so right now
I'm checking my phone's once again we
have
in to the city of Houston trying to
learn exactly what the future is of the
fireworks display but I'll tell you what
it is not a good sign when you have some
of your folks taking down a lot of that
gear that they have worked for days now
to set up David I want you to look back
around there there is more equipment
going in there trying to remove some of
the sound and light equipment that
they've you can imagine that they have
worked so hard to set up I'm sloshing
through and going to meet you up here on
the other side kind of making it up as
we go trying to get around because you
can imagine there's a large perimeter
fence set up here in this area but that
forklift going in to remove some of the
some of the more equipment they didn't
expect to take this down until starting
late tonight or early tomorrow also if
you look over there at the main stage
they're in the process of taking down
some of that equipment they had
literally some of those large blue tarps
covering up very expensive tens hundreds
of thousands of dollars in equipment now
sitting out here in the rain so that's
certainly not a good sign again I'm
checking my phones as you take a look at
that to see if we have heard anything
back from the city of Houston as far as
a an announcement of any type
not yet as for as far as the the future
of this again it's not just the concern
of what's falling from above at that
point later today there will be a
concern of how far the Bayou has come up
I keep in mind you know this is a risk
we've seen this with the Free Press
summer concert series they have had rain
issues it's amazing how you can have
what amounts to a drought and then all
of a sudden you have floods so David
Owens show right over here if we can see
this rider truck back here you can see
when it backed up it was not sitting in
water and now the prone front as well as
the back wheels are creeping into water
so Wow when it rains in Houston it comes
up quickly guys back to you