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REUTERS
SAN ANTONIO
THE BRAZOS RIVER in Texas surged to its highest in more than a century in an area outside of Houston on Wednesday after floods killed at least six people, damaged hundreds of buildings and turned roads into lakes over the past week.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood watch for large parts of the state, includes sections near Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Houston. Storms lasting until the weekend could send even more rivers over their banks, it said.
Parts of the Houston area, where eight people were killed by floods that hit in April, could see as much as 10 inches of rain over the coming days, the NWS said. This could tip off another round of floods in the fourth most-populous US city.
Houston has activated emergency operations center and opened evacuation shelters as forecasters warned of a new round of heavy rains.
The NWS reported the Brazos River, which winds over 840 miles (1350 kms) across Texas, reached levels not seen since 1913 about 30 miles southwest of Houston.
In the most recent floods, hundreds of people across the state have fled their homes.
"It's scary, we have never had anything like this before," said said a Richmond resident.
