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Livingston elementary school under boil water notice, city rigs temporary water to campus
LIVINGSTON, Texas (KTRE) - The City of Livingston has announced a boil water notice for Creekside Elementary School due to a water main break. A bypass line is in place to temporarily provide water for the facility. Livingston ISD Superintendent Dr. Brent Hawkins posted an update for the families of...
Many local Go Fund Me flood families need your support
HARRIS COUNTY (KIAH) — So many families in Conroe, Trinity, Spring, Magnolia, Kirbyville, Livingston, Huntsville, Keefer, Coldspring, Lakewood Forest, Porter, are having to start over after recent floods as river water inundated homes north of Harris County. Many of our north neighbors are turning to support from the public on Go Fund Me.com.
Goodrich ISD will be closed on Wednesday, May 8 due to continued flooding
POLK COUNTY, Texas - Goodrich ISD announced it will be closed on Wednesday due to the impact remaining from heavy flooding. With the mandatory evacuation order still in place and flooding still impacting students and families, Goodrich ISD decided to close operations on Wednesday, May, 8. The school district has...
Several East Texas roads closed due to flooding, downed trees
EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - After more rain Saturday night, authorities have reported a number of road closures. CR 425, water over roadway as of 10:30 a.m. CR 2202, water over roadway as of 10:30 a.m. CR 2212, water over roadway as of 10:30 a.m. FM 320, water over roadway as...
Looking back at last week’s exceptional rains; and forward to not one, but two fronts
In brief: Well, it’s over. In today’s post we discuss last week’s extraordinary precipitation event that finally ended Sunday, and some lessons learned. Houston faces calmer weather this week, with two frontal boundaries coming later this week and over the weekend to bring some drier and slightly cooler air into the region. Unfortunately it does appear as we’ll see some decent rain chances on Mother’s Day.
Recovery a faraway thought for East Texas flood evacuees as more rain is expected
COLDSPRING – Willie Rawls woke up to water at the steps of his home Thursday in the river bottoms of Coldspring – one of the first towns hit by the several hundred thousand gallons of water released from the Lake Livingston Dam. The dam was releasing water in...
The weather pattern that made our flooding so devastating last week
Going back to Sunday April 28th parts of SE Texas like Walker and San Jacinto counties received 25″ of rain. Specifically Huntsville, got near Harvey level flooding. There are basically three main types of weather patterns we track. There are large scale patterns like a dome of high pressure, or cold front. There are meso-scale weather patterns like a trough of low pressure or dry line. And then there are micro-scale patterns.
US Coast Guard evacuates 12-hour-old baby girl from flood-impacted Cleveland, Texas
Emergency medical care personnel were unable to transport the baby by ambulance because of flooding in the area. Officials say the mother, the infant, and a paramedic were transported to a Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
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