Severe storms hit the Houston area again.
Take a look at the heavy rain from this video sent to us by one of our viewers named Pam.
This is from a gas station off the North Sam Houston Parkway.
The storms also brought hail to some areas in Houston. This is video from your
check out the ping pong sized hail falling outside
of that hole and take a look at this.
A large tree fell on a car sitting in a slightly flooded street.
This is just north of spring. We're told no one was inside.
Thank goodness,
we have live team coverage with crew checking out the damage.
And the neurologist Kim Castro and David Paul have the latest forecast.
But now to the Magnolia area where crews are looking for a
person they believe was trapped under a house when it collapsed.
Sherman Chow is there with the very latest. Now she
we are here in Magnolia and behind me, a neighborhood under construction,
I'm going to step out of the way so you can see it
was just before one o'clock this afternoon when that storm blew through,
destroying two homes and knocking a third one off kilter behind that red tarp.
Firefighters are working to reach a man
construction worker who was trapped when all of that debris fell.
It is unclear as to his condition.
Uh I wanna introduce you now to Christian Hernandez.
He is one of the construction workers who was here at the time.
Christian, thank you for talking to us. Tell me what happened.
It was like around
one o'clock
it was working and then
we just
see a darkest
then
uh
green,
like you said, it was like a little
tornado,
tornado. Yeah, we just like a little tornado.
I mean, we just heard a lot of noises like
strong noises
and one of your co workers ran across the street and got caught in the collapse.
Yeah,
he was working between the two houses.
Why are you so sure that he is in there
because we just call
several times and he answered the phone
and then we just uh uh
but you did not hear him. But what did you hear?
I'm sorry,
you said you didn't, he didn't answer the phone but you heard his
phone.
Yeah, we hear his phone when
you called like three times,
we just hear his phone ringing
and then he just saw like a little flashlight.
So I think maybe
in the
Thank you very much Christian, we appreciate it. We'll talk to you some more.
A little bit later on. But right now I want to bring in
Battalion Chief Adam Volga
with the Magnolia Fire Department.
First question,
do you have any idea as to the condition of that worker who's trapped?
Not right now, we're still currently trying to make our access to the
All right, and we're going to step out of the way just here.
So folks can see while you explain to us what is
on because this is a lot trickier than it
might appear to people in terms of this rescue operation
and being careful with all the structures involved. Yes,
ma'am.
What do you got going on here with the structural collapse team?
Yes,
ma'am.
So we do have the Montgomery County structural collapse team
on scene that consists of several departments in the county that come together
and work on incidents like this
to make sure that we can
our buildings embrace them
in order to safely conduct operations like this.
And one of the things you're worried about is the structural integrity,
not just of the damaged houses, but all the other ones.
Absolutely. Absolutely. That's another priority of ours.
We want to make sure that we don't allow for a continued collapse scenario that
would just add to more safety issues like a domino effect and just last quick
question.
But this is a specialized team.
So they bring their own equipment and what are they actually
doing to prevent that domino effect of collapses from occurring?
Yes, ma'am. They've actually brought
lumber, dimensional wood and they build bracing
to race between
the concrete slabs and the buildings that are leaning,
that are partially collapsed.
And that way they can capture these buildings in place so that when we clear
debris, searching for a victim, we don't have a high risk of movement.
All right,
very much. Thank you very much.
We appreciate that. So this
work continues behind us. They do have one construction worker back there.
And as you heard Christian Hernandez tell us,
they rang his phone, they could hear his phone ringing.
They saw his flashlight go off. So they are hopeful that he'll be ok.
That work goes on behind
for now. We are live here in uh
in Magnolia. She
mkhou 11 news. Yes. Let's all hope that that worker is ok and a delicate operation.
Let's pray that none of those first responders get hurt in that operation
moving on now, flash flooding caught drivers off guard in Southeast Houston.
That's where emergency crews and wreckers
responded after the storm rolled through.
Jason Miles is live from Gulf Crest, Jason. What have you seen out there?
We're
talking about flash flooding guys.
That means water is here one minute, gone in the next few minutes.
The water has gone down dramatically here behind me at
Reilly and park place this afternoon, but several cars got stalled out earlier.
Take a look at video. We shot just within the last hour, hour and a half or so.
As usual, drivers say, they thought they could make it through the water.
Something that's never of course recommended since it's
hard to know just how deep that water is
or what may be in the water.
The flash flooding here followed strong winds, even hail in the area.
The power went out for about an hour where we were,
which means traffic lights were also out that was closer to telephone road.
Here's what a driver said about getting stuck in that water
was
the
light was out back there,
flash flood came about
driving through it. I was surrounded by all sides.
We also shot some video while driving around earlier ourselves.
This was around 130 as the bulk of the storm moved through,
we could hear small hail hitting the windshield and the roof of our news van,
ironically, a restaurant nearby that lost power.
Today, we were actually inside the restaurant when that happened.
They did not lose power during the big storm nearly two weeks ago. Now
reporting live from Southeast
Houston, Jason Miles K
11 news
power is always
a concern, especially now,
right now we're hearing reports of high water rescues in northeast Houston.
Julia
Garza joins us live with more on what she's seeing. Julia.
Yeah, that's right.
You know, a lot of this can catch drivers off guard,
including here along East cross timbers.
Take a look.
This is just underneath the hard you can see that a car back there is stuck,
the trunk of the car is open.
This has caused some traffic to build up,
especially those traveling along East cross timbers.
We got caught up in a little bit of traffic. But again, this is not the only high water.
You're saying a lot of flash flooding in different places.
When we were driving along 45 we saw different spots in that, you know,
building up traffic once again.
So you want to be careful, be on the lookout.
I know sometimes your GPS isn't telling you exactly what you're going to run into.
So just stay alert, stay off your phone. Pay attention to the road.
We see constables are blocking out there from precinct one
trying to navigate traffic on both ends.
Again, east cross timber underneath the hardy.
If you normally take this route, you want to take another route.
But again,
we've come across different areas along 45 where there's some high water,
some spots higher than others.
So again, be careful. We've also noticed here on the north side, a few lights out.
So that's also causing some traffic building.
I know this is the time that people are starting to get off of work.
So again, just be very careful.
Again, precinct one is out here, constables trying to navigate everything.
We're going to continue making our way across the north
side trying to get a better idea of what's going on
out here to make sure that you all are safe on
the roads while you're making your evening commute for now,
I'm going to go ahead and send things back to the studio.
All right, be safe out there on the roads. Thank you, Jalisa. Right now.
Center point reports over 270,000 people are without power and
we now go to Timber Grove in Northwest Houston,
an area already hit hard by the bad storm nearly two weeks ago.
Stephen Goen
joins us live. Stephen. What's it like in Timber Grove?
Yeah, a lot of people are dealing with outages here.
We're standing right next to an apartment complex where
every unit is in the dark right now.
Take a look. This is a video of the rain that we saw
heavy storm
and rain falling here just hours ago.
Now we're seeing some branches on the ground from the
storm and residents here told me they are still dealing with
plenty of storm damage from just a couple of weeks ago.
It took
six days for some people here to get power back after
that
came through. One man I talked to today said he's hopeful.
It won't take that long to get the lights back on this time.
Didn't really expect to see the power go out though.
So
it
is what it is.
You know, you get these storms come in,
there's really nothing you can do except sit through it
back out here live. We're also seeing some construction right here behind me.
I don't know if you can see that.
No doubt that is from storm damage a couple of weeks ago,
the weather that we are seeing today and what's expected later on this week, it
could be a setback for some of the people here
who are trying to repair and rebuild for now.
In Timber Grove, Stephen go
Khou
11
news.
These storms are the last thing we, you did. All right. Thank you so much, Steven. Go.
Let's get a check on what, what the storm is doing right now. Uh With Kim Castro.
Hey, Kim. Hey, Ron. Cheer.
The storms now along the coastline,
here's a shot at Pleasure Pier and you could see from the camera view,
it's shaky out there.
It's very windy, the rain is coming down.
You can see those palm trees blow in inside ways. 74 degrees.
Right now in Galveston,
the wind sustained out of the east northeast at 24 miles and hour.
So that is where the last of these storms are making their final exit.
A special weather statement for Brazoria and Matagorda for 40 mile
an hour wind gust and the possibility of some small hill,
though, I can see that hail core has dissolved and it's offshore.
It was a very disruptive afternoon right after the noon
hour is when the storms took off with gusty winds.
7075 miles an hour, hail, thousands of lightning strikes and of course,
some heavy downpours two inches all along the swath
in Harris County that extended all the way into
Galveston County.
For that reason, we under a flood advisory,
Harris in Montgomery until five o'clock and then
down to the coastline at least through 545.
But yes, the rain has wrapped
up.
Here's a shot of downtown and boy,
the change is nice when it comes to the temperature.
Look at that 70 degrees right now.
Bush Intercontinental Airport, a 24 degree drop from yesterday. That's the rain.
Cool day.
I'll show you what's ahead as we head into this
evening when I see you in a couple of minutes.
All right, nice change. Thank you.
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