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Water levels are starting to get down around the city, particularly in the area where is the main cause of the flooding was just the rain. we were in a neighborhood this morning where people were able to get into their flooded homes yesterday and start the work of tearing out the sheetrock and replacing everything inside that had been destroyed. but the problem that they're running into here in western houston was just the backup of all of that water through those two dams and reservoirs that we've been talking about and through the bayou system. flood control officials say it may be ten days ...

Never thought you would be among the homeless after a hurricane or a natural disaster like this. >> well, i certainly hoped that i wouldn't, but as i said at the time, to many houstonians and others, we could be in the same situation and although there were a lot of sacrifices made in order to put over $150,000 -- people out of harm's way, it was worth it, because after all, we gotta treat our fellow americans the way we would want to be treated. >> can you describe what happened with -- what happened at your house, how quickly did the floodwaters rise, when did you decide to make that call to...

Reservoir. i'm only halfway down this wall. those trees you see out there in the distance, i'm told by people who live in this neighborhood that those trees are 20 and 25 feet tall. that is how much water has shown up in this reservoir which is normally essentially a dry creek with a little band of water running through it. but now so much rain has fallen they are discharging, chris, 60,000 gallons of water per second out of this reservoir and the barker reservoir, which is really only a few blocks to a few miles away from here, trying to dump all that water out into the bayou system so it can...

Know, this prairie land would absorb a bunch of rain water is, you know, ludicrous, it's absurd. and we can essentially fight concrete with concrete. we can through these massive public works projects that mitigate flooding, you know, retention ponds, widening the bayou system. that kind of thing. and, you know, some of that might be needed. but scientists are saying what's really needed is smarter development policies, and for public officials to start thinking about climate change, and how climate change will start bringing more intense and frequent rainfall. and a lot of them are not doing ...