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Release rate. at the same time while they are releasing the water out of the reservoir realtime monitoring water in buffalo bayou. as the mayor said they are going to try to maintain what's happening. a gradual decrease in buffalo bayou, current level today. if we get more rain downstream or more water upstream, that's probably going to change. we're not anticipating any increase in flooding down buffalo bayou. there was a comment some of the residents don't really know where they live, next to what bayou. if you live next to a major stream between i-10 and west, that's buffalo bayou. those ar...

Reservoirs southwest of the addicks reservoir. both roughly 20 miles west of houston, directly north of sugarland if you know the area. the danger here is as you can see where stephanie is, this is overflowing its banks, or it's going to, and it's going to flood a nearby area, so a control release seems to be a better idea. they are going to get up to 8,000 cubic feet per second. right now they are at about 2500 cubic feet per second they are releasing into houston. remember that there's still rain. there's rain that's going to be coming down into houston until thursday night. so this is the p...

They are expecting rain until thursday night. let me give you some numbers. they fielded 75,000 911 calls, conducted at least 10,000 rescues on 911. they are pleading with people if you are in touch with anybody in houston that once they call 911, do not hang up. that is causing a whole new raft of problems for them. they are saying about 10 calls in queue. people reduce the number from 120 in queue to about 10 calls in queue. if you call 911 you are not going to get a response immediately but they say please do not hang up because it takes up personnel to continue to call back. there are 185 ...

Stay on the line. do not hang up, because that just expands our trunk system, which overloads it and puts on hold the number of people we can't get to. so stay on the line. what we also initiated last night what's a voice activated system that notifies people if they do call 911, their call is being processed. that's significant. it what we were experiencing earlier was a constant rain and thinking our system was down. our system hasn't been down, just the long way to call, so stay on the line. we're also encouraging citizens if they receive any calls from relatives, if they have contacted 911...