2 Die When Vehicle Floods In Severe Weather

HOUSTON -- Two people died Monday when their sport utility vehicle became submerged on a southeast Houston feeder road during severe weather, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Severe weather pounded the Houston area early Monday, flooding streets, closing schools and sending bayous over their banks

An SUV became submerged under 10 to 15 feet of water in the northbound lanes of the Interstate 45 feeder road at Tellepsen, according to authorities.

When emergency officials pulled it out after the water receded, they found the bodies of two females inside.

The victims have not been identified. Police do not know how the women became trapped and drowned.

Officials said they believed it was dark when the women approached the area, not realizing the water was so deep, and became trapped.

A third death was also blamed on the storm. A 56-year-old man died in a traffic accident on a rural road in Fort Bend County. Officials said that the Needville man's car apparently hydroplaned on Farm Road 1462. The car veered off the road and landed upside-down in a flooded ditch.

As much as 10 inches of rain were reported in the Houston-Galveston area overnight, closing numerous roads in some public school systems.

"A warm front is responsible for bringing in all this moisture. We have Tropical Depression Norman out here and it brought us a lot of moisture on top of the moisture in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s why we’re seeing incredible downpours," KPRC meteorologist Anthony Yanez said.

Yanez said the Houston area would have dangerous weather throughout this evening.

"We’ll see an additional 3 to 5 inches. Overnight, we saw 6 to 8 inches," he said. "With a new line moving in, we have the potential to see more flooding, especially in the Houston area."

Allen's Landing near downtown Houston, where Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou meet, was underwater by 9 a.m.

Traffic was closed to Travis Street in downtown because of flooding from the runoff of the bayous. At least six vehicles were underwater on Travis because they could not get out in time.

Highway 288 was one of numerous roadways shut down for a while early Monday morning because high water made it impassable.

Twenty feet of water collected below the underpass of Beltway 8 at Interstate 10.

All schools in the Galveston, North Forest Anahuac Independent school districts were closed Monday because of the severe weather. Shepherd Independent School District schools will be dismissed at noon. The Cleveland school district will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m.

Classes at the University of Houston downtown campus were also canceled. The UH main campus opened at noon.

The following Houston Independent School District schools were closed.

• Berry Elementary
  
• Bowie Elementary
  
• Concord Early Childhood Center
  
• Cook Elementary
  
• Fleming Middle
  
• Fonville Middle
  
• Houston Gardens Elementary
  
• Isaacs Elementary
  
• Kashmere High
  
• Kashmere Gardens Elementary
  
• Key Middle
  
• McDade Elementary
  
• Northline Elementary
  
• Peterson Elementary
  
• Wheatley Child Development Center

The Harris County Office of Emergency Management said the following bayous were near or over their banks at 9:30 a.m., creating localized street flooding.

• Hunting Bayou at Lockwood Drive and Loop 610
  
• White Oak Bayou south of Jersey Village to Heights Boulevard
  
• Buffalo Bayou where it meets White Oak Bayou

“There are no reports of home flooding in Harris County,” said Keith LeJune with the Harris County Office of Emergency Management.

Officials said there have not been any reports of injuries.

Authorities were investigating reports that high winds destroyed two mobile homes and severely damaged another structure in the town of China, a Jefferson County official said.

No injuries were reported in the storm about 65 miles northeast of Houston, said Calvin Irvin, Jefferson County emergency management spokesman. Public reports that the damaging wind was a tornado were still unconfirmed, he said.

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my boss sent me home early and I am JUST now getting online. The lighting has been unbeleiveable......and dangerous.

we have another round coming tonight, then more thursday...

what part of 59 were you at?

(it is fairly long and through alot of differat cities....)

texaschickeee wrote:

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what part of 59 were you at?

(it is fairly long and through alot of differat cities....)

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That was just north of Houston  around the Livingston area .....

We went through several areas like that but the pics above were the worst ...

texaschickeee wrote:

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Too bad you and IO couldnt come down a little further south......I would ahve had a steak dinner with ya.

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We thought about it ...   but figured Woody's tube steak was a dinner for one

I dont know about being a crime

It  is a very STUPID thing to do......

there was a place today that was closed due to water..

the cops were just pulling people over and given tickets when they passed. (live on the news)

they stopped right after tht...)

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texaschickeee wrote:

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I dont know about being a crime

It  is a very STUPID thing to do......

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OK, #1 yes, it is a crime, a misdemeanor to be exact, and thanks for calling SU stupid, I was going to do it, but thought better of it.

-- Edited by USofAcop at 18:30, 2006-10-16

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Straight Up wrote:

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OK   I give up     How is doing as the police say stupid  .....

 

They were turning north bound cars around and sending them south in the north bound right hand lane ....

Directing north bound trucks through the water .....   

Disobey orders giving by the police is .....    stupid....

Taking a car through that much water is stupid....

Following a convoy of trucks directed by the police through the water is not because of my size and wieght....

Now .....   twenty minutes after I passed through ....    they routed even the trucks through town .....    after they found a route that was not swamped that a truck could travel...

Now ....   had the police not been there .....    no way .....   I like my truck too much for that...   And besides ...   been thru worse working with FEMA...

So ....if some one is stupid here .....    it's the police ......    They are  the ones that decided to send the trucks through ......    I had no choice ....

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Well thats what you get for not telling the whole story stupid!

Su-

he pees on toliet seats............

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Su-

he pees on toliet seats............

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texaschickeee wrote:

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 Woody-

Your  nice guy to host......

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Thanks babe! You are sweet!