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Our underpasses because it's not an unusual occurrence. but then something else happened this morning. it became a different type of crisis. that is the bayous all of a sudden just started rising and that's what inundated structures. >> i see. in terms of that, in terms of that last inundation that you're talking about there and in terms of the scale of the flooding it's interesting to hear you say you're designed for this in a way, the street grid is the way houston is designed to drain out. was this big enough you think you're going to have considerable infrastructure damage? looking at the ...

Very very hard. and of course we have three confirmed fatalities. two of them were in vehicles that went under water last night during the rain. and then one person was pulled this morning. we don't know the circumstances of that. we are -- as soon as we can, and as waters recede we're going to areas that have been under water. >> it's tour'e one last question, you have infrastructure damage and thousands of people who have been displaced from their homes and not going to be able to go back to their homes, you have businesses damaged throughout the area of town. what is the long-term economic ...

We have flood gages on many of our underpasses because it's not an unusual occurrence. but then something else happened this morning. it became a different type of crisis. that is the bayous all of a sudden just started rising and that's what inundated structures. >> i see. in terms of that, in terms of that last inundation that you're talking about there and in terms of the scale of the flooding it's interesting to hear you say you're designed for this in a way, the street grid is the way houston is designed to drain out. was this big enough you think you're going to have considerable infrast...

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