Buffalo Bayou, across the street from the station just outside downtown, was one of many locations seeing immense flooding as Tropical Storm Harvey dumped staggering amounts of rain on the Greater Houston area.
Currently moving ONE MPH ... still in Texas on Friday?!
They went to second floor..now evacuating
What’s happening in Kingwood?
A lot of land in and around Houston has a high level of clay.
Clay has good and bad water properties. It can hold a lot of water. However, it does not absorb water quickly. Even in just a very heavy downpour in and around Houston (when I was there), immediate road flooding was normal. The length of time it continued to rain very hard determined how quickly the water would subside, but because the clay can hold a ton of water it would eventually subside.
